Easiest Way to Prepare Tasty Chicken kabsa

Chicken kabsa. 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.

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

Ingredients of Chicken kabsa

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

Famous for a good reason: rich chicken flavor, fragrant spice, sweetness from shredded carrots and raisins. The chicken is boiled to make it's own stock, then broiled in the oven till golden brown and crispy. Melt butter in a large stock pot, casserole or dutch oven. Add chicken pieces, onion & garlic & sauté until onion is tender.

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.

Stir in tomato puree & simmer over a low heat for a couple of minutes. Add tomatoes, carrots, cloves, all the spices & salt and pepper. Kabsa is a traditional Saudi dish - and some people say it was originated from Yemen- that consists mainly of rice and meat. A deliciously spiced chicken and rice dinner usually made with lamb meat but you can use beef/chicken as well. I've seen Kabsa for the first time in my life when I was in Saudi Arabia and it was made at a wedding banquet.