How To Make Kabsa
This kabsa recipe yields a hearty Arabic dish loaded with flavorful spices, tender chicken, and flavorful tomato sauce served over warm rice.
Ingredients
For Kabsa Spice Mix:
- ½ tsp saffron
- ¼ tsp ground cardamom
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground allspice
- ¼ tsp ground white pepper
- ½ tsp dried whole lime powder
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 6 garlic cloves, minced
- 3 lb whole chicken, cut into 8 pieces
- ¼ cup tomato puree
- 14½ oz tomatoes, diced, undrained
- 3 carrots, peeled and grated
- 2 whole cloves
- 1 ground nutmeg, pinch
- 1 ground cumin, pinch
- 1 ground coriander, pinch
- salt, to taste
- freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 3¼ cup hot water
- 1 chicken bouillon cube
- 2¼ cup basmati rice, unrinsed
- ¼ cup raisins
- ¼ cup slivered almonds, toasted
Instructions
- Mix together the saffron, cardamom, cinnamon, allspice, white pepper, and lime powder in a small bowl, and set the spice mix aside.
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Melt the butter in a large stock pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Stir in the garlic and onion; cook and stir until the onion has softened and turned translucent.
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Add the chicken pieces and brown them over medium-high heat for about 10 minutes, until lightly browned. Mix in the tomato puree.
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Stir in the canned tomatoes with their juice, the grated carrots, whole cloves, nutmeg, cumin, coriander, salt, black pepper, and the Kabsa spice mix.
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Cook for about 3 minutes; pour in the water, and add the chicken bouillon cube.
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Bring the sauce to a boil, then reduce the heat to simmer and cover the pot. Simmer for about 30 minutes, until chicken is no longer pink and the juices run clear.
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Gently stir in the rice. Cover the pot and simmer for about 25 minutes, until rice is tender and almost dry. Add the raisins and a little more hot water, if necessary.
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Cover and cook for an additional 5 to 10 minutes or until the rice grains are separate.
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Transfer the rice to a large serving platter and arrange the chicken pieces on top. Sprinkle the toasted slivered almonds over the dish. Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Sugar: 4g
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- Calcium: 70mg
- Calories: 486kcal
- Carbohydrates: 54g
- Cholesterol: 61mg
- Fat: 20g
- Fiber: 4g
- Iron: 2mg
- Monounsaturated Fat: 9g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g
- Potassium: 560mg
- Protein: 21g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Sodium: 156mg
- Trans Fat: 1g
- Vitamin A: 4684IU
- Vitamin C: 13mg
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