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Ingredients
4 servings

4 cupsbasmati long grain rice
washed

1whole chicken
cut into 8 pieces

5 cupswater
enough to cook the chicken and rice

2 tables spoonsolive oil

2onions
finely chopped

2tomatoes
fresh finely chopped

3hot green chillies
for flavoring

4 table spoonstomato paste

1 tssalt
to taste
Hard Spices

2cinnamon sticks

0.5 table spooncloves

0.5 table spooncardamons

3bay leaves

3dried lemons
poked with a knife to fill with broth
Kabsah Spices
Instructions
Step 1
Using a deep pot on low-medium fire, add in the chopped onions, oil and all hard spices. Stir fry till the onions turn golden.









Step 2
Add in the tomato paste and stir the mix for a minute


Step 3
Then add the chopped tomatoes and all Kabsa spices and stir the mix till it thickens then add the water






Step 4
When the water reaches the boiling point, add all chicken parts and let them cook for 25 mins or until chicken is cooked


Step 5
Optional: you can extract the chicken for broiling in medium heated oven

Step 6
If the amount of soup is feared to be an excess, remove some to a separate bowl to be added back later on upon need
Step 7
filter the washed rice and add it on top of the boiled chicken soup and add back the chicken soup to cover everything 1 cm above rice level. Add extra water if not enough.

Step 8
Add the green chillies

Step 9
Salt to taste

Step 10
increase the heat to high and cover the pot for 7-10 mins until the water level decreases below rice level and boiling holes r formed on rice. Don't open the cover while on high heat otherwise the rice ends up being watery. Monitor the pot just in case the heat was too high n you smell something burning. in that case, cut an onion in half n leave it on top of the rice before next step.

Step 11
Then put the heat on low and let the rice cook slowly for 25-30 mins.

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