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Home Made Chicken Kabsa

Home Made Chicken Kabsa is a traditional Saudi dish prepared with chicken and rice. You will find lot of variations while preparing Home Made Chicken Kabsa. Home Made Chicken Kabsa is unique and tasty with Kabsa spice marinated chicken pieces cooked with rice and seasoned with spicy seasonings. The dish is very popular and the flavorful aroma is simply irresistible. The dish is wholesome and nutritious and requires very little time for preparation. You can discover a well detailed Home Made Chicken Kabsa here.
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Prep Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour
Cuisine Mediterranean
Servings 6 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1/4 cup Ghee/Oil
  • 2 kg Chicken cut into large pieces
  • 1 Onion finely chopped
  • 8 cloves Garlic
  • 1/4 cup Tomato puree
  • 1 Tomato finely chopped
  • 1 Dried black lime
  • 2 nos Carrots grated
  • 2 nos Cloves
  • 1 pinch Nutmeg grated
  • 1/4 tsp Cumin powder
  • 6 nos Black pepper
  • 4 cups Hot water
  • 1 Chicken cube
  • 2 cups Basmati rice
  • 10-15 nos Raisins
  • 3 tbsp Kabsa spice mix
  • Salt to taste

Instructions
 

  • For preparing Home Made Chicken Kabsa, marinate the cleaned chicken pieces with kabsa spice mix and salt. Keep it aside for 15 minutes.
  • Heat oil/ghee in a pan, add chopped onions, garlic, green chillies and saute it. Add chicken pieces and saute it well.
  • Add tomato puree, stir and cook on low flame for 2 minutes.
  • Add tomato, carrots, cloves, dried lime, all the spices, black pepper and salt. Cook for another 2 minutes.
  • Add the water and chicken cube. When it starts to boil, cover and cook it for 15 -20 minutes on low flame.
  • Add the rice and stir carefully. Add raisins, again cover and cook it for another 15 minutes or until the rice is tender on low flame.
  • Place the rice on a serving plate topped with chicken. Serve hot with green salads or home made tomato sauce 'Dakkous'.

Notes

I used 3 green chillies. (Optional)
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