This is an AI-generated image.

Mashkoul

Name: Mashkoul
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Kuwait
Ingredients: 300g (long-grain rice) Rice; 1 Onion; 3 Cardamom; A pinch Saffron; 3 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1 tsp Salt; 450ml Water

Rice

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

White rice cooked with fried onions and cardamom — the Kuwaiti rice served with fish.

📱 Open in Storage App

🚧 The Storage app is currently in development. Please check back soon.

📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mashkoul is rice served with fried or grilled fish in Kuwaiti homes: onions are fried in oil and long-grain rice is cooked with cardamom and salt. Milder than spiced rice, it brings out the fish and daqoos (tomato sauce). It's sometimes tinted at the end with a little saffron water.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At lunch in a Kuwaiti home, fried onions sit atop steaming white rice beside a plate of fried fish.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Rice 300g (long-grain rice)
Onion 1
Cardamom 3
Saffron A pinch
Vegetable oil 3 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 450ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rinse the rice and soak in water for 30 minutes.
Heat oil in a pot, fry the sliced onion until golden, and remove half.
Add the cardamom, water, and salt, bring to a boil, and add the rice.
Cover and cook on low for 20 minutes.
Drizzle with a little saffron soaked in water, top with the reserved onion, and let stand.

← More Kuwait recipes 🗺 Explore another country