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Main dishes · United Arab Emirates

Machboos

Rice with prawns or chicken on the bizar spice mix with dried lime. The staple of the Gulf.

◷ 75 minutes♧ 5 servingsSave as cookbook PDF ↓

Ingredients

For 5 servings · tick what is ready

Use the scaled ingredient list. Steps and temperatures stay unchanged; use a larger pan or dish if needed. Seasonings to taste stay to taste.

LET’S COOK

How to make it

01

Rinse the rice until the water runs clear and soak it twenty minutes.

02

Fry the onion in ghee to a deep gold, fifteen minutes, and set a third aside.

03

Add the garlic, ginger, bizar and turmeric and warm them a minute, until fragrant.

04

Add the tomatoes and the pierced limes, pour in water at one and a half times the volume of the rice, and season.

05

Bring it up, add the rice, cover and cook fifteen minutes on a low heat.

06

Lay the prawns over the rice, cover and give it five more minutes; they cook in the steam.

07

Rest it ten minutes and scatter with the reserved onion, coriander and chilli.

About this recipe

By UniTools · Source: UniTools — theunitools.com. Recipe content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.