Khaleeji
Chicken Machboos
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Pat the chicken dry and season with salt and black pepper. Heat the ghee in a heavy pot over medium-high heat and brown the chicken pieces on all sides, about 8 minutes, then lift them out.
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Add the sliced onion to the same pot and cook until soft and golden, about 6 minutes. Stir in the garlic and baharat and cook 1 minute until fragrant.
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Add the chopped tomato and tomato paste and cook 3 minutes until the tomato breaks down. Return the chicken to the pot with the pierced dried limes, cardamom pods, cinnamon stick and bay leaves, then pour in the water and bring to a boil.
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Cover and simmer 30 minutes until the chicken is cooked through and tender. Lift the chicken out, keep it warm, and skim any excess fat from the broth.
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Rinse the rice and stir it into the broth, topped up to 3.5 cups with water if needed. Bring back to a boil, cover, reduce the heat to low and cook 15 minutes until the rice is tender and the liquid is absorbed.
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Nestle the chicken back over the rice to warm through, scatter with the bloomed saffron, toasted almonds and raisins, and bring the whole pot to the table so everyone serves from one platter.
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Serve it with
A Khaleeji dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Machboos, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Machboos carries tree nuts and dairy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | Yes | Balaleet (Sweet Vermicelli with Omelette) |
| Dairy | Yes | Chicken Kabsa |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 580 kcal
- Protein
- 34 g
- Carbs
- 60 g
- Fat
- 23 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 660 mg
- Saturated fat
- 9 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chicken Machboos takes about 75 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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