Recipe: Tasty Chicken kabsa

Chicken kabsa. 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.

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. You can have Chicken kabsa using 26 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken kabsa

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

Heat oil/ghee in a pan, add chopped onions,garlic,green chillies and saute it. Kabsa is an amazingly flavored rice dish that can be made with chicken, beef or lamb. An aromatic rice pilaf one pot meal from the gulf area. It is like having a flavorful rice and chicken kebab, all made in one pot.

Chicken kabsa step by step

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.

An exotic Saudi rice dish served with raisins and almonds. The Chicken Stock Cube enhances the taste of the Chicken Kabsa. Remove the cooked Chicken pieces from the pot and place them on a foil. Brush some oil over the Chicken pieces and sprinkle some pepper powder and chili powder and spread evenly on the Chicken. Chicken kabsa is a traditional spiced rice dish originating from Saudi Arabia.