🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Kabsa
Saudi Arabia's national dish: rice stained with tomato and loomi, chicken or lamb resting on top.
🔪 Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 70 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Kabsa spice with dried lime (loomi), whole spices in the rice, and a fresh tomato-chili daqus sauce on the side.
Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken, quartered
- 500 gbasmati rice
- 3 tomatoes, grated
- 2 dried limes (loomi)
- 2 tspkabsa spice (cardamom, cinnamon, clove, black lime)
- 2 onions
- 3 tbspghee
- 50 graisins and toasted almonds
Method
- 1
Brown the chicken in ghee with onions, then add tomato, spices, and pierced loomi.
- 2
Cover with water and simmer until the chicken is nearly done.
- 3
Lift the chicken; cook the rice in the spiced broth.
- 4
Crisp the chicken under the grill while the rice rests.
- 5
Mound the rice, seat the chicken on top, scatter raisins and almonds, serve with daqus.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6