UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain

Chicken machboos

Name: Chicken machboos
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Emirati
Ingredients: 1 kg bone in, skin off chicken, curry cut (bone in chicken, small pieces); 2 cups soaked 20 minutes basmati rice; 2 large sliced onion; 2 chopped tomato; 5 cloves crushed garlic; 1 inch grated ginger; 2 dried limes pierced dried lime; 1 tbsp baharat; 1/2 tsp turmeric (ground turmeric); 1 cinnamon stick 4 cardamom, 4 cloves whole spices; 2 slit green chilli; 1/3 cup chopped coriander leaves (cilantro); 3 tbsp ghee; Salt, to taste; Water, about 4 cups

Dried lime, baharat and chicken in one pot of rice. The Gulf's Friday lunch, sorted.

90 minTime

46 gProtein each

mediumSpice

The Gulf's family pot3 chapters · 2 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayEmirati home style, with loomi and baharat.

The original

707kcalsame

46 gproteinsame

4 gfibresame

90minutessame

The original chicken machboos.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Chicken, curry cut (bone in chicken, small pieces)1 kg, bone in, skin off

Basmati rice2 cups, soaked 20 minutes

Onion2 large, sliced

Tomato2, chopped

Garlic5 cloves, crushed

Ginger2.5 cm, grated

Dried lime2 dried limes, pierced

Baharat1 tbsp

Turmeric (ground turmeric)½ tsp

Whole spices1 cinnamon stick, 4 cardamom, 4 cloves

Green chilli2, slit

Coriander leaves (cilantro)⅓ cup chopped

Ghee3 tbsp

Saltto taste

Waterabout 4 cups

Method

5 steps

1Fry onions in ghee until deep golden. Add garlic, ginger, whole spices and chilli.
2Add the chicken with baharat and turmeric and sear until it changes colour all over.
3Add tomato, pierced dried limes, coriander and water. Simmer covered until the chicken is cooked through.
4Lift out the chicken. Measure 3 1/2 cups broth into the pot, add salt and the drained rice. Boil, then cover and cook on low.
5Brown the chicken briefly under a grill or in a pan, then lay it over the rice to rest 5 minutes.

Serve it like this

Mound the rice on a large round platter, chicken on top, sprinkle fried onions and nuts. Serve hot with daqqus tomato sauce, salad and laban.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain

Chicken machboos

Dried lime, baharat and chicken in one pot of rice. The Gulf's Friday lunch, sorted.

90 minTime

46 gProtein each

mediumSpice

The Gulf's family pot3 chapters · 2 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayEmirati home style, with loomi and baharat.

The original

707kcalsame

46 gproteinsame

4 gfibresame

90minutessame

The original chicken machboos.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Chicken, curry cut (bone in chicken, small pieces)1 kg, bone in, skin off

Basmati rice2 cups, soaked 20 minutes

Onion2 large, sliced

Tomato2, chopped

Garlic5 cloves, crushed

Ginger2.5 cm, grated

Dried lime2 dried limes, pierced

Baharat1 tbsp

Turmeric (ground turmeric)½ tsp

Whole spices1 cinnamon stick, 4 cardamom, 4 cloves

Green chilli2, slit

Coriander leaves (cilantro)⅓ cup chopped

Ghee3 tbsp

Saltto taste

Waterabout 4 cups

Method

5 steps

1Fry onions in ghee until deep golden. Add garlic, ginger, whole spices and chilli.
2Add the chicken with baharat and turmeric and sear until it changes colour all over.
3Add tomato, pierced dried limes, coriander and water. Simmer covered until the chicken is cooked through.
4Lift out the chicken. Measure 3 1/2 cups broth into the pot, add salt and the drained rice. Boil, then cover and cook on low.
5Brown the chicken briefly under a grill or in a pan, then lay it over the rice to rest 5 minutes.

Serve it like this

Mound the rice on a large round platter, chicken on top, sprinkle fried onions and nuts. Serve hot with daqqus tomato sauce, salad and laban.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Chicken machboos

Make it your way

Ingredients

Method

Chicken machboos

Make it your way

Ingredients

Method

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