Kabsa- an Arabian Gulf main dish
Skill level: medium to advanced Prep time: 10 minutes or less (unless you have a 9 year old helping you in which case it takes about 572 hours) Cooking time: 75 minutes Ingredients Chicken pieces (could be drumsticks, thighs, or breast. With bone tastes better) 4 cups Basmati rice 2 tomatoes 1 big onion Salt and pepper Makbos spice mix (which you can find at your nearest halal/middle eastern store- two of which are in Fort Wayne Halal Store on Hobson Rd and Almadinah on Colsieum) Dried lime (also typically found at above mentioned stores) Directions Dice the tomatoes and onion In a saucepan, add a little bit of olive oils and turn heat up to high Add diced tomatoes and onion Stir for a couple of minutes Add your rinsed and cleaned chicken pieces to the pan Add salt and pepper to liking Stir until chicken turns slightly brown Add enough water to fill about 3/4 of the saucepan Add 4 tablespoons of makboos spice mix Cover and let cook on medium high for at least 60 minutes (check on the water level occasionally and if needed add water to maintain level at at least half the saucepan) Soak the rice in water and set aside until chicken is done cooking After chicken is cooked, take the chicken pieces out and put them on a tray If you’d like, you can put the tray in the oven and broil on low for a few minutes. This works well if you kept the skin on the chicken Take out the dried lime and throw away Rinse out the rice Add rice to the saucepan Turn heat to low-medium Cover and cook the rice (15-20 minutes) Once rice is done, put it on a tray and then put the chicken pieces on top Aaaaand sahteen p.s. the spice mix differs slightly based on country. The one I like and use is the Saudi mix but there Bahraini, Qatari....etc.
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