Recipe: Tasty Kabsa spices + Kabsa rice - Saudi rice with lamb meat

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Kabsa spices + Kabsa rice - Saudi rice with lamb meat. Great recipe for Kabsa spices + Kabsa rice - Saudi rice with lamb meat. Amazing dish to prepare when you have friends around or when you feel like cooking while you're self isolating #quarantine #lunchideas #cookathome (I made a lot so I'll probably have it for lunch and dinner over the next two. Along with long grain rice, meat from mutton, lamb, beef, camel, and fish can be used.

I then add the rice and more spices until cooked and finish off this dish served with toasted pine nuts, almonds, cashews and dried cranberries.

The lamb can be replaced with beef or chicken.

Serve with a fresh tomato and cucumber salad on the side, if desired.

You can have Kabsa spices + Kabsa rice - Saudi rice with lamb meat using 30 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Kabsa spices + Kabsa rice - Saudi rice with lamb meat

Prepare of Kabsa spices mix (for multiple uses):.
Prepare 1 tablespoon of garlic powder.
It’s 1 tablespoon of white pepper.
It’s 1.5 tablespoon of turmeric.
It’s 1 tablespoon of cinnamon.
Prepare 1 tablespoon of paprika.
It’s 1 tablespoon of ground allspice.
You need 7 tablespoons of curry powder.
Prepare 1 tablespoon of cardamom powder (if available).
Prepare 1 tablespoon of lime powder (if available).
You need of For the rice.
Prepare 4 teaspoons of the above spices mix.
It’s 4 cups of basmati rice.
Prepare 1 of medium onion, chopped.
It’s 1 of carrot, chopped.
Prepare 1/4 of red pepper.
You need 1/4 of yellow pepper (or 1/2 of any colours).
You need 2 teaspoons of tomato paste.
Prepare 1 cube of chicken stock.
You need handful of dried raisins (optional).
Prepare of To cook the meat.
Prepare 500 g of lamb meat cubes.
Prepare 1 of dried lime.
Prepare 1 of cinnamon stick.
Prepare 1 of bay leaf.
It’s of Topping.
It’s of Shredded almonds.
Prepare of pine nuts.
It’s of pistachios.
Prepare 1 teaspoon of butter and oil.

This recipe is made with chicken but it can be made with other meats like lamb as well.

The rice is beautifully spiced and the tender chicken literally falls off the bone.

It is typically eaten communal style with the right hand.

Prime Indian Mutton (Goat meat) is best for Kabsa.

Kabsa spices + Kabsa rice - Saudi rice with lamb meat step by step

📌📌📌NOTE: for the Kabsa spices I didnt have cardamom powder and lime powder so I used 2 cardamom cloves and half dried lime while cooking the rice instead. After you mix all the spices you can save them in a jar to use later. You can also use the spice mix to marinate your chicken 🍗.
Rinse the rice and soak it for ~ 30 minutes with a teaspoon of salt.
Start with boiling the lamb cubes with 1 dried lime, cinnamon stick and 1 bay leaf.
Meanwhile fry the onions with oil in a pot, and add the spices 3 minutes later. (Frying the spices with the onions makes the flavour so much stronger than adding the spices in later steps).
Add the peppers and carrot cubes. Mix for 3 minutes then add the tomato paste and mix again for 3 more minutes.
Add the rice with the dried raisins and mix gently to make sure each grain is covered with the spices..
By this time the meat will be cooked. Pour its water on the rice then add half a dried lime with two cardamom cloves on top. Leave on high heat for 15min then cover the pot and leave on medium to low heat for 10 more minutes.
In a saucepan fry the cooked meat with some nuts of your choice in butter and oil with a pinch of salt and black pepper.
When the rice is cooked, remember to remove the cardamom and the lime from the top..
Serve in a big plate with the nuts and meat on top.

My mom made this Kabsa so perfectly!!

I would be so thrilled when I walked in the door after school and got that distinct whiff of Kabsa Spice!!

Kabsa with Lamb or Mutton can be made in a crockpot, but in Saudi, a pressure cooker is more commonly used and I believe it gives delicious results!

Kabsa is a Saudi spice blend to be specific (never mind the Casablanca reference earlier), though it is also used in Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain.

This Middle Eastern spice blend is named after a popular rice dish that uses long grain rice, meat, dried fruit, tomatoes, and onions.