🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates cuisine · #1
Chicken Machboos
Time90 min
Serves6
Ingredients12
The UAE's national dish: basmati rice cooked with chicken, bezar spices, dried lime, tomato and onion, topped with hashu (sweet onion-raisin garnish).
Ingredients
Method
- Brown the onions in oil, add garlic, chicken and spices.
- Add tomato, dried limes and water; cook 40 minutes.
- Lift out the chicken and brown in the oven.
- Add soaked rice to the broth and cook gently until absorbed.
- For hashu, fry onions with raisins, chickpeas and cinnamon; serve the rice with chicken and hashu.