Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken kabsa. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chicken kabsa is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chicken kabsa is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

After falling in love with Kabsa at a Yemeni restaurant in San Francisco I had to learn how to make this dish. This is a great recipe and the spicing was utterly perfect. I marinated the chicken overnight in some lime/garlic/kabsa spice and then threw it on the grill to pick up some additional flavor before doing the steps in the recipe.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chicken kabsa using 26 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken kabsa:

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

Channel your inner chef, and cook up a storm for friends and family. 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.

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

While this particular recipe smelled and tasted different than the Kabsa I have had (I know there are many variations to Kabsa, much like the Spanish Paella), it was still good. I do think that the broth used to cook the rice needs more chicken flavor, even after boiling the chicken in it, so next time I would add some boullion. 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.

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