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Machboos Dyay

Name: Machboos Dyay
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Kuwait
Ingredients: 4 (bone-in) Chicken Thigh; 400g (long-grain rice) Rice; 2 Onion; 2 Tomato; 3 cloves Garlic; 1 Lime; 1 Cinnamon stick; 4 pods Cardamom; 4 Clove; 1/2 tsp Turmeric; 1 tsp Cumin powder; 40g Raisins; 3 tbsp Vegetable oil; 2 tsp Salt; 800ml Water

Rice

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Chicken simmered with spices and dried lime, with rice cooked in the broth — Kuwait's national dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Machboos is the spiced rice considered Kuwait's national dish: chicken, lamb, or fish is simmered with dried lime (loomi), cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, and other spices, and long-grain rice is cooked in that broth. It's topped with hashu, a sweet topping of fried onions and raisins, and served with daqoos tomato sauce.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At Friday lunch in a Kuwaiti home, spiced rice is heaped on a big silver tray topped with chicken as the family sits on the floor around it.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Chicken Thigh 4 (bone-in)
Rice 400g (long-grain rice)
Onion 2
Tomato 2
Garlic 3 cloves
Lime 1
Cinnamon stick 1
Cardamom 4 pods
Clove 4
Turmeric 1/2 tsp
Cumin powder 1 tsp
Raisins 40g
Vegetable oil 3 tbsp
Salt 2 tsp
Water 800ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Heat oil in a pot, fry 1 sliced onion and the garlic, and add the spices until fragrant.
Add the chicken and brown, then add the chopped tomato, slit lime, salt, and water and simmer 40 minutes.
Remove the chicken and brown the surface in the oven or under a grill.
Add the rinsed rice to the broth (about 600ml), cover, and cook on low for 20 minutes.
Fry the remaining onion and raisins, place on the rice, and top with the chicken.

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