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Classic Chicken Kabsa The combination of cardamom, black lime & cinnamon gives this Saudi rice dish its special taste. Chicken kabsa is a traditional spiced rice dish originating from Saudi Arabia. Famous for a good reason: rich chicken flavor, fragrant spice, sweetness from shredded carrots and raisins.
Classic Chicken Kabsa is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Classic Chicken Kabsa is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook classic chicken kabsa using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Chicken Kabsa:
- Prepare 1 small chicken without skin, cut into 6 pieces
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup white basmati rice, washed
- Take 1 onion, chopped
- Take 1 tomato, chopped into small pieces
- Get 3 teaspoons tomato paste
- Get 1/2 cup raisins
- Take 6 teaspoons vegetable oil
- Prepare 2 teaspoons baharat spice
- Take 3 teaspoons ground cardamom, ground
- Take 4 cloves garlic, crushed
- Get 1 dried black lime, loomi
- Take 1 cinnamon stick
- Take salt
Chicken and rice are cooked in a beautiful spice mix making this one of the best one pot rice recipes ready to entertain you and your friends on any special occasion. Kabsa is a fragrant rice dish that can be made with chicken, lamb or beef. This one pot meal is very popular in the gulf area of the Arabian-peninsula such as in Dubai, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and many more countries. However, this dish originated in Saudi Arabia and is known as their national dish.
Instructions to make Classic Chicken Kabsa:
- Preheat oven to 300 F.
- In a large cooking pot, fry the onions and with 1 teaspoon of cardamom in the vegetable oil, till the onions are golden.
- Boil some water and pour it over the fried onions, until the pot is half full.
- Add in the tomato paste, chopped tomatoes, dried black lemon, raisins, garlic, cinnamon stick and the remaining cardamom. Add salt according to taste, stir and cook for 5 minutes over medium heat.
- Add the chicken pieces and continue to cook over medium heat for 30 minutes. The pot should be covered with an aluminum foil first followed by the pot's lid.
- Remove the chicken pieces from broth and transfer to a baking pan to cook in the oven. Keep checking on the chicken so it stays moist. When chicken is done, remove from oven and keep warm.
- Use a colander to strain the chicken broth into a bowl. Put the strained ingredients, except the cinnamon stick, back into the cooking pot along with the rice and 3 cups of the strained chicken broth.
- Bring to a boil then reduce heat to low right away and cover tightly with an aluminum foil first then the lid of the pot.
- After 10 to 15 minutes, you can check on the rice. If the rice is done and there is still some broth, leave over heat for a few more minutes for all broth to evaporate. If it’s too dry, add some broth and continue cooking but do not stir. At the end, the rice should be light and fluffy.
- To serve: place the rice in a serving dish and arrange chicken pieces on top of it. Add hot sauce if desired.
The delicious flavors of kabsa rice cooked in these aromatic spices, root vegetables, and topped with crispy roasted chicken is the classic that I often make during this time of year. It is an easy dish to make in huge quantities, and everyone loves it. This plant based version replaces the chicken completely with a gorgeous roasted squash. Kabsa is a spicy chicken and rice dish very popular in Saudi Arabia. It is a rice dish cook along with different kinds of meat and other spices.
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