Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken kabsa. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Melt the butter in a large stock pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Kabsa is the very definition of a one pot dish of chicken and rice. Bake the chicken in the oven with some oil for half an hour to slightly brown the chicken pieces. The chicken is partially baked to ensure it is cooked through when it is cooked with the rice.
Chicken kabsa is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Chicken kabsa is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken kabsa using 26 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken kabsa:
- Get 2 tbsp butter
- Get 4 tbsp olive oil
- Take 1 cup onioms diced
- Take 1 cup fresh diced tomatoes
- Take 1 cup diced green pepper
- Make ready 2 peeled and grated carrots
- Take 1 kg chicken thighs and legs with bone in
- Take 2 green chilli
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves minced
- Take 4 bay leaves
- Get 4 tbsp tomato puree
- Make ready few black pepper corns
- Make ready 1 dried lime
- Prepare 1 and half cinnamon stick
- Prepare 3 cups basmati rice
- Take 2 tbsp jannahs kabsa spice blend
- Take for the kabsa side sauce
- Get 2 tbsp olive oil
- Prepare 1/2 medium onion
- Take 1 medium tomato
- Make ready half green pepper
- Make ready 1 garlic clove
- Prepare 2 tbsp tomato puree
- Prepare large pinch of cumin
- Get large pinch of mint
- Prepare broth from the chicken
After chicken is removed and fried or grilled for golden color and crispy. Chicken kabsa another wonderful comfort rice dish I learned from my Palestinian mother in law #mycookbook. Chicken Kabsa Turn your next meal into a Mediterranean feast with this Arabian style chicken and rice. Spiced grill chicken and flavored rice made with mild Arabian spices makes this the ultimate choice for any festivities, special occasions and family dinners.
Instructions to make Chicken kabsa:
- In very large a pan add the oil and butter over a medium heat and add the minced garlic and onions and sautee for a few minutes add salt and black pepper to taste cook till oniond turn golden and transparent
- Add the chopped tomatoes and green pepperand sautee for 3 to 4 minutes till they have cooked down a little
- Add the kabsa spice and mix for 1 minute till all ingredients are mixed well.
- Add the chicken pieces skin side down on top of the tomato and oniom mixture make sure the meat gets a good colour you can add a little more oil if needed at this stage add the green chilli and the tomato puree and mix till covered for 1 minute
- Add the grated carrot and add 4 to 5 cups of water and add the whole spices I.e peppercorns cinnamon sticks bay leaves and mix together bring to the boil and then cover and simmer on a low heat for 20 to 30 minutes till chicken is cooked (tip we dont want the meat falling of the bone)
- After 25 to 30 minutes remove chicken from the stock chicken must be tender add to a oven proof dish and place the chicken in the oven and bake till chicken gets a nice golden colour and skin is crispy
- Measure 5 cups of stock threw a sieve but reserve the vegetable from the stock and place to one side also reserve half a cup of stock for the sauce mix later
- Add to a very large pot the reserved vegetable mixture I.e the onions,tomatoes, chilli and carrot add to the pot and add 3 cups of washed basmati rice and mix
- Add 5 cups of the sieved stock to rice and veg mixture and bring to the boil once boiling lower thr heat and simmer and cover the pot for 18 to 20 mind or till rice has fully cooked
- Chicken shoukd be golden and crispy by now
- Prepare the side sauce for the rice in a food processor blend the tomatoes and peppers and onion till smooth
- In a saucepan heat the oil qnd add the tomato paste abd chilli and cook for q few minutes to get the acid out the tomato paste
- Add the tomato and onion and pepper mixture to the pan and mix and cook for a few minutes
- Add a large pinch of cumin and dried mint and mix and had half cup of the reserved broth from the chicken earlier mix and simmer till you get a good consistency like a soup mixture then set aside in a serving bowl
- The rice is now cooked so now assembled the kabsa fluff up the rice on a serving dish add the chicken in a decorative way on top of the rice if you wish you can toast sum almonds and scatter on top and serve the rice along side the tomatoes sauce bon appetite
Chicken Kabsa Turn your next meal into a Mediterranean feast with this Arabian style chicken and rice. Spiced grill chicken and flavored rice made with mild Arabian spices makes this the ultimate choice for any festivities, special occasions and family dinners. This one pot meal Chicken Kabsa is easy to make and delicious to taste. Heat oil/ghee in a pan, add chopped onions,garlic,green chillies and saute it. Kabsa is an amazingly flavored rice dish that can be made with chicken, beef or lamb.
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