Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, machboos chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Machboos Chicken is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Machboos Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook machboos chicken using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Machboos Chicken:
- Make ready 1 kg chicken cut according to preference
- Get 1 kg rice washed and soaked in water for 10 minutes then strained, preferably Basmati rice
- Prepare 2 chopped tomatoes
- Take 1 Tbsp tomato paste
- Take 2-3 Cups water
- Take 1 Cup chopped coriander
- Get 4 dried limes (black lime)
- Get Whole Spices: 3 cloves, 3 cinnamon sticks, 4 cardamoms pods and 5 bay leaves
- Get 1 small spoon turmeric
- Take to taste Salt
- Make ready to taste Whole black pepper
- Prepare 1 small spoon ginger paste
- Prepare 1 small spoon garlic paste
- Make ready Green chili pepper (optional)
Instructions to make Machboos Chicken:
- Heat oil in a cooking pot. Add the onions and stir until the color tends to light brown. Add the whole spices (cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and bay leaves). Add the ground spices, then the chicken pieces and stir lightly for ten minutes till browned.
- Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, coriander, garlic, ginger and dried lime, then stir until the tomatoes become soft. Add the green pepper (optional).
- Add broth and let it simmer until the chicken is cooked through. Remove the chicken and place it in the oven under the grill to give it a lovely brown color.
- Cook the rice by adding the right amount of chicken broth to cook it (each cup of Basmati rice will take 1 ¼ - 1 ½ cup of broth).
- When the rice water evaporates, we return the chicken on top of the rice and close the lid for another 25 - 30 minutes on very low heat till its completely cooked.
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