Recipe: Perfect Classic Chicken Kabsa

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Classic Chicken Kabsa. Classic Chicken Kabsa The combination of cardamom, black lime & cinnamon gives this Saudi rice dish its special taste. Chicken kabsa is a traditional spiced rice dish originating from Saudi Arabia. Famous for a good reason: rich chicken flavor, fragrant spice, sweetness from shredded carrots and raisins.

Season chicken with salt and pepper.

Heat olive oil in a large high-sided saute pan or Dutch oven over medium-high.

Remove from pan and set aside.

You can have Classic Chicken Kabsa using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Classic Chicken Kabsa

1. You need of small chicken without skin, cut into 6 pieces.

2. It’s of white basmati rice, washed.

3. Prepare of onion, chopped.

4. You need of tomato, chopped into small pieces.

5. You need of tomato paste.

6. You need of raisins.

7. It’s of vegetable oil.

8. You need of baharat spice.

9. Prepare of ground cardamom, ground.

10. Prepare of garlic, crushed.

11. It’s of dried black lime, loomi.

12. You need of cinnamon stick.

13. You need of salt.

Kabsa is a spicy chicken and rice dish very popular in Saudi Arabia.

It is a rice dish cook along with different kinds of meat and other spices.

Chicken Kabsa is a fragrant, mildly spiced, hearty.

The rice, kabsa spices, salt are added.

Classic Chicken Kabsa instructions

1. Preheat oven to 300 F..

2. In a large cooking pot, fry the onions and with 1 teaspoon of cardamom in the vegetable oil, till the onions are golden..

3. Boil some water and pour it over the fried onions, until the pot is half full..

4. Add in the tomato paste, chopped tomatoes, dried black lemon, raisins, garlic, cinnamon stick and the remaining cardamom. Add salt according to taste, stir and cook for 5 minutes over medium heat..

5. Add the chicken pieces and continue to cook over medium heat for 30 minutes. The pot should be covered with an aluminum foil first followed by the pots lid..

6. Remove the chicken pieces from broth and transfer to a baking pan to cook in the oven. Keep checking on the chicken so it stays moist. When chicken is done, remove from oven and keep warm..

7. Use a colander to strain the chicken broth into a bowl. Put the strained ingredients, except the cinnamon stick, back into the cooking pot along with the rice and 3 cups of the strained chicken broth..

8. Bring to a boil then reduce heat to low right away and cover tightly with an aluminum foil first then the lid of the pot..

9. After 10 to 15 minutes, you can check on the rice. If the rice is done and there is still some broth, leave over heat for a few more minutes for all broth to evaporate. If it’s too dry, add some broth and continue cooking but do not stir. At the end, the rice should be light and fluffy..

10. To serve: place the rice in a serving dish and arrange chicken pieces on top of it. Add hot sauce if desired..

Chicken broth is then added to the large pot of ingredients.

Bring to a boil, and then reduce heat to medium low heat and allow to simmer until rice is cooked.

Spoon onto a serving dish, removing the chicken and placing on top.

Sprinkle with roasted almonds, or pine nuts, and serve.

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