How to Make Award-winning Chicken kabsa

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chicken kabsa. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Chicken kabsa is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Chicken kabsa is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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. The tomatoes, and tomato paste are stirred into a tomato sauce. Melt the butter in a large stock pot or Dutch oven over medium heat.

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 that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken kabsa:

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

It is like having a flavorful rice and chicken kebab, all made in one pot. An exotic Saudi rice dish served with raisins and almonds. Heat oil/ghee in a pan, add chopped onions,garlic,green chillies and saute it. Kabsa is the national dish of Saudi Arabia, it's a rice based dish made by combining rice and meat (chicken, lamb, camel, beef etc)… While browsing through my Picasa album, I came across the pictures for Chicken Kabsa.

Steps 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

Heat oil/ghee in a pan, add chopped onions,garlic,green chillies and saute it. Kabsa is the national dish of Saudi Arabia, it's a rice based dish made by combining rice and meat (chicken, lamb, camel, beef etc)… While browsing through my Picasa album, I came across the pictures for Chicken Kabsa. I'd made this last year for Eid. For Eid, biryani is the most unavoidable dish in my family. Kabsa is a traditional Middle Eastern dish consisting of spices, rice, meat and vegetables.

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