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Al Kabsa Recipe – Saudi Kabsa Recipe – Arabic Rice & Chicken Recipe

September 18, 2015 By Aarthi 18 Comments

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Arab Kabsa is one recipe which was requested so many time in my blog. And i have never tasted that before. I refered lots of videos and browsed a lot about it and decided to give it a go. It tasted pretty good too.
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The main flavouring for this comes from tomatoes, chicken, baharat spice mix and the rice. So use a good quality rice and cook the chicken as mentioned. I used my homemade baharat spice mix. You can either make it your own or buy from shop. I have given the recipe for that spice mix in this post too, even though i have shared it as a separate post.. 
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..


Preparation Time : 15 mins
Cooking Time : 1 1/2 hour to 2 hours
Serves : 6

Ingredients:

Basmati Rice – 3 cups
Chicken – 1 whole chicken cut into 8 pieces with skin on
Oil – 1/4 cup
Onion – 2 large chopped finely
Garlic – 3 tblspn finely chopped
Tomatoes – 4 large chopped finely
Baharat Spice Mix – 4 to 6 tblspn (Recipe Here )
Tomato paste – 3 tblspn (Recipe here)
Orange Zest –  2 tblspn
Ghee – 2 tblspn
Carrot – 1 medium size grated
Salt to taste
Water – 4.5 cups

Whole Spices:
Cinnamon / Pattai – 4 cm piece
Bay Leaf – 3
Cardamom / Yelakai – 6
Cloves / Krambu – 6
Dried Lime – 1


For Topping:
Ghee – 4 tblspn
Almonds – 1/2 cup 
Kishmish / Sultanas – 1/4 cup


For Baharat Spice Mix:

Cinnamon / Pattai – 5 cm piece
Dry Red Chilli – 8
Kashmiri Dry Red Chilli – 8
Cardamom / Yelakai – 10
Cloves / Krambu – 10
Whole Coriander Seeds / Malli – 1 tblspn
Nutmeg – 1 tblspn
Whole Black Pepper – 2 tblspn
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tblspn
Dry Ginger Powder / Chukku Podi –  1 tblspn

Method:


For Baharat Spice Mix:
Take all the ingredients except ginger powder in a pan and roast on low heat till golden.Add in ginger powder and saute for 20 more sec.Now let them cool a bit, add it in a blender and powder it finely.Spread on a paper and let them cool a bit.Store in a air tight container.


For Kabsa:
Wash and soak basmati rice for 1 hour. Soak almonds in hot water till use.

Heat a large pan with oil. Add in onions, garlic and salt. Saute for 2 mins or so.

Now add in chicken skin side down and sear it for 10 mins on each side..

Add in tomatoes, baharat, tomato puree, whole spices, orange zest and mix well. Now add in water and mix well. Bring it to a boil, cover and simmer for 30 to 40 mins till the chicken is cooked completely.

Now preheat oven to 250 degree C. Set oven to grill or broil mode.Line a baking tray with foil and grease it well with oil.

Now remove the cooked chicken from the mix and arrange it skin side up on a baking tray. Sprinkle the top with some more baharat and drizzle some oil over it and pop it into the oven and grill for 5 mins or so till the skin is crispy.

Heat some 2 tblspn ghee in a pan, add in carrots and saute it for 5 mins.

Now add the drained basmati rice into the liquid, Add in sauted carrots and mix well. Cook on high heat till everything comes to a boil. Now cover with a tight lid or a foil and a lid and simmer it for 20 to 30 mins till the rice has absorbed all the liquid,

Now peel off the almonds and slice it. heat some ghee in a pan, add in almonds and fry till golden. Add in kishmish and saute till golden. 

Once the rice is cooked, Fluff it with a fork. Cover and set aside for 30 mins. 

Spoon rice onto a serving plate, cover with broiled chicken and sprinkle with nuts.

Serve.

Pictorial:
Take all your ingredients
Soak rice for 1 hour
Take almonds in a bowl
cover with hot water and let it soak
Heat oil in a big pot
add in onions
garlic
season with some salt
saute lightly
now it has turned light golden
place chicken skin side down.
Sear it and flip over
add in tomatoes
mix well
add in baharat
tomato paste
add in whole spices
add in orange zest
mix well and cook for few more mins
Add in water
Mix well..
Bring it to a boil
cover and simmer for 30 to 40 mins till chicken is done
While chicken is cooking, i peeled almonds
Sliced it like this
Now the chicken is done
remove it from the pot
arrange it in a foil lined baking tray..I greased the foil with some oil
sprinkle the top of chicken with baharat spice mix
drizzle top with oil
Put it under broil mode and grill it for few mins till golden
Heat ghee in a pan
add in carrots
saute till golden
add in drained rice
add in grated carrots
Mix well..
cover with foil
place a plate on top and cook on a low heat till it is done
Now heat ghee in a pan, add almonds in
fry till golden
once it gets golden, add sultanas in
fry lightly
Now the chicken is well browned as well
now the rice is cooked
Take a serving plate
spoon the rice in it
place chicken
scatter with nuts
Serve
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About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  1. Anonymous

    September 18, 2015 at 10:37 am

    Do something lot of issues while opening your site …

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  2. Anonymous

    September 19, 2015 at 12:37 pm

    Ur recipes are great but I agree it's difficult to access the site! Please do something about it if u can, thanks for all the hard work Aarthi!

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  3. Subi

    November 22, 2015 at 6:44 am

    The original recipe has the chicken skin on and very less spice as they eat it with raw green chili . Haven't you added the dried lime..

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  4. Aarthi

    November 25, 2015 at 2:46 am

    @Subi i didn't have dried lime so i didn't add it. but i have mentioned dried lime in the written part/

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  5. Unknown

    June 19, 2016 at 8:54 pm

    Made this and it came out really good. Thanks for the recipe

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  6. Veera

    September 8, 2016 at 2:54 pm

    any alternAtive for grilling???

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    • Aarthi

      September 9, 2016 at 7:14 am

      you can pan fry it.

      Reply
  7. divinity

    October 23, 2016 at 10:16 am

    In which stage should we add dried lime ??

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  8. divinity

    October 23, 2016 at 10:17 am

    In which stage should we add dries lime ?

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  9. Anonymous

    November 4, 2016 at 2:48 pm

    what is orange zest is it must?

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  10. Anonymous

    March 7, 2017 at 8:49 pm

    Hi arthi sister,
    Please can u teach me the achari chicken recipe

    Reply
  11. Stranger

    May 7, 2018 at 12:03 pm

    How can we do the same in vegetarian way? Can we use Paneer?

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    • Aarthi

      May 7, 2018 at 2:10 pm

      you can try, but not sure of the taste.

      Reply
  12. Geeta Sharma

    January 28, 2019 at 2:23 pm

    So delicious I love it, I have an doubt which mutton curry is good in your website please suggest me

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  13. Raj

    January 30, 2019 at 2:38 am

    It is so delicious, I have one doubt which mutton curry is so tasty in your website. Please suggest me*

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    • Aarthi

      February 1, 2019 at 4:37 pm

      Try mutton chops and mutton masala

      Reply
  14. Poornima shanmugam

    February 20, 2019 at 12:11 am

    Your blog is very user friendly thank you for your great job. I am in Taiwan now. I try to meet you when I come to india. Both kutties are made your vlog actively yes I follow too your vlog.

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  15. Sindhu

    May 31, 2019 at 12:50 pm

    I tried this recipe today and it came out so perfectly. We live in the gulf and it’s the exact taste as they make it in Arabic homes.. Thank you so much for this detailed explanation.

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