Khaleeji

Ruz Mfalfal (Buttered Basmati Rice)

Name: Ruz Mfalfal (Buttered Basmati Rice)
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Khaleeji
Ingredients: 2 cups basmati rice; 2 tbsp ghee; 2 cardamom pods; 1 cinnamon stick; 1 tsp salt; 3 cups water

Fatima @fatima_machboos

Ruz Mfalfal (Buttered Basmati Rice) is Khaleeji home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Easy Vegetarian Pescatarian Halal Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups basmati rice
2 tbsp ghee
2 cardamom pods
1 cinnamon stick
1 tsp salt
3 cups water

How to cook it

Rinse the basmati rice in several changes of water until it runs clear, then soak 15 minutes and drain.
Melt the ghee in a pot over medium heat and add the cardamom pods and cinnamon stick, stirring 30 seconds until fragrant.
Add the drained rice and stir gently for 1 minute to coat every grain in the ghee.
Pour in the water and salt, bring to a boil, then cover, reduce the heat to the lowest setting and cook 12 minutes.
Turn off the heat and let the rice rest, covered, for 10 minutes before fluffing with a fork, the plain buttered rice that rides beside a bowl of saloona or marag.

Watch how to cook Ruz Mfalfal (Buttered Basmati Rice)

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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 Ruz Mfalfal (Buttered Basmati Rice), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Bayd bil Tamat (Eggs in Tomato Sauce)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Cucumber and Laban Salad
  
  15 min
The sharp little thing
- Dakkous (Gulf Tomato Relish)
  
  20 min

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. Ruz Mfalfal (Buttered Basmati Rice) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Ruz Mfalfal (Buttered Basmati Rice)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Nothing comparable without it yet
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: 410 kcal
Protein: 7 g
Carbs: 80 g
Fat: 7 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 0 g
Sodium: 580 mg
Saturated fat: 5 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Ruz Mfalfal (Buttered Basmati Rice) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.