Maqluba Recipe (Upside-Down Rice)

Name: Maqluba Recipe (Upside-Down Rice)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 2 medium potatoes sliced; 1 large eggplant sliced; 1 onion sliced; 1 tomato sliced thinly; ½ cup of cooking oil; 2 tablespoon olive oil; 5 cardamoms; 6 cloves; 1 cinnamon stick; 2 bay leaf; 1 chopped onion; 900 g chicken with skin; ½ tablespoon of salt; ¼ tablespoon turmeric; 1 ½ tablespoons chili powder; 4 cups of hot water; ¼ tsp of lemon peel; 2 cups of long basmati rice; ¼ tsp turmeric; 2 tsp cumin powder; 1 tablespoon salt; 1 tablespoon black pepper; 1 ½ tablespoons 7 spices; Chopped coriander or parsley

Instructions

Prep:20minCook:1h 10min

Maqluba is also known as Makloubeh, Maqlooba, and Magluba called “upside down rice”. It is a famous Arab dish popularly known as the Palestinian maqluba recipe. There are many versions of maqluba in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Egypt but they all are the same with minor differences in cooking methods. The main ingredients that this dish relies on are rice, meat, and vegetables which include tomato, potato, eggplant, onion, and cauliflower layered in a pot.

Updated at: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:14:25 GMT