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Chicken Kabsa Be the first to rate & review! Considered the national dish of Saudi Arabia, this spiced chicken-and-rice dinner couldn't have a more beautiful presentation—it's served with fried almonds and raisins, parsley sprigs, and a citrusy yogurt sauce. Partially baking the chicken will ensure it is cooked through after added to the pot with the rice. The tomatoes, and tomato paste are stirred into a tomato sauce.

Chicken kabsa is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Chicken kabsa is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken kabsa using 26 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken kabsa:

1. Make ready 2 tbsp butter
2. Take 4 tbsp olive oil
3. Get 1 cup onioms diced
4. Take 1 cup fresh diced tomatoes
5. Take 1 cup diced green pepper
6. Get 2 peeled and grated carrots
7. Take 1 kg chicken thighs and legs with bone in
8. Take 2 green chilli
9. Prepare 3 garlic cloves minced
10. Take 4 bay leaves
11. Take 4 tbsp tomato puree
12. Get few black pepper corns
13. Make ready 1 dried lime
14. Prepare 1 and half cinnamon stick
15. Get 3 cups basmati rice
16. Get 2 tbsp jannahs kabsa spice blend
17. Get for the kabsa side sauce
18. Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil
19. Prepare 1/2 medium onion
20. Make ready 1 medium tomato
21. Prepare half green pepper
22. Take 1 garlic clove
23. Take 2 tbsp tomato puree
24. Make ready large pinch of cumin
25. Make ready large pinch of mint
26. Get broth from the chicken

Stir in tomato puree & simmer over a low heat for a couple of minutes. Add tomatoes, carrots, cloves, all the spices & salt and pepper. Kabsa or Kabseh is a very aromatic traditional chicken and rice dish from Saudi Arabia. Wonderful flavors and aromas are combined in this chicken kabsa dish to create a flavorful meal.

Instructions to make Chicken kabsa:

1. 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
2. Add the chopped tomatoes and green pepperand sautee for 3 to 4 minutes till they have cooked down a little
3. Add the kabsa spice and mix for 1 minute till all ingredients are mixed well.
4. 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
5. 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)
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Chicken shoukd be golden and crispy by now
11. Prepare the side sauce for the rice in a food processor blend the tomatoes and peppers and onion till smooth
12. 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
13. Add the tomato and onion and pepper mixture to the pan and mix and cook for a few minutes
14. 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
15. 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

Kabsa or Kabseh is a very aromatic traditional chicken and rice dish from Saudi Arabia. Wonderful flavors and aromas are combined in this chicken kabsa dish to create a flavorful meal. This spiced chicken and rice dinner will definitely become one of your favorites. Saudi Chicken Kabsa Recipe The Chicken Stock Cube enhances the taste of the Chicken Kabsa. Remove the cooked Chicken pieces from the pot and place them on a foil.

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