Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken kabsa. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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. Partially baking the chicken will ensure it is cooked through after added to the pot with the rice.
Chicken kabsa is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chicken kabsa is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken kabsa using 26 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken kabsa:
- Get 2 tbsp butter
- Make ready 4 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 1 cup onioms diced
- Prepare 1 cup fresh diced tomatoes
- Get 1 cup diced green pepper
- Make ready 2 peeled and grated carrots
- Get 1 kg chicken thighs and legs with bone in
- Prepare 2 green chilli
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves minced
- Make ready 4 bay leaves
- Make ready 4 tbsp tomato puree
- Make ready few black pepper corns
- Get 1 dried lime
- Get 1 and half cinnamon stick
- Get 3 cups basmati rice
- Prepare 2 tbsp jannahs kabsa spice blend
- Get for the kabsa side sauce
- Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil
- Take 1/2 medium onion
- Get 1 medium tomato
- Prepare half green pepper
- Get 1 garlic clove
- Take 2 tbsp tomato puree
- Take large pinch of cumin
- Get large pinch of mint
- Take broth from the chicken
Melt butter in a large stock pot, casserole or dutch oven. Add chicken pieces, onion & garlic & sauté until onion is tender. Stir in tomato puree & simmer over a low heat for a couple of minutes. Add tomatoes, carrots, cloves, all the spices & salt and pepper.
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
Set aside while other ingredients are prepped. Combine the spice powders together for the Baharat (Spice Mix). And set aside the additional whole spices if you would like more spice. Kabsa (Arabic: كبسة kabsah) is a mixed rice dish that originates from Saudi Arabia but is commonly regarded as a national dish in many Arab states of the Persian Gulf. The dish is made with rice and meat.
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