🇱🇧 Lebanon
Riz a Djej
No Lebanese lunch invitation is complete without it: the platter that says a guest of honor is coming, laban on the side, nuts on everything.
🔪 Prep: 25 min🔥 Cook: 60 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Hashweh rice — cinnamon-spiced minced meat folded through — under poached-then-crisped chicken and a storm of fried nuts.
Ingredients
- 1 chicken
- 500 grice
- 300 gground beef or lamb
- 1½ tspcinnamon
- 1½ tspseven-spice
- 3 tbspghee
- 100 gfried almonds, pine nuts, and pistachios
- to tastelaban to serve
Method
- 1
Poach the chicken with cinnamon bark and spices into a fragrant broth.
- 2
Brown the minced meat in ghee with cinnamon and seven-spice.
- 3
Cook the rice in the chicken broth, then fold through the meat.
- 4
Shred the chicken and crisp it briefly in ghee or under the broiler.
- 5
Pile rice on a platter, top with chicken, and bury it in fried nuts; serve with laban.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6