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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Kabsa

Ingredients
  • 2 lb  lamb meat big pieces  (or you can use 1 whole chicken cut in 4 pieces)
  • 1 1/2 cups Basmati rice
  • 3 1/2 cup water
  • 2 chopped fresh tomatoes
  • 1 carrot shredded
  • pinch of scraped orange skin
  • 1 big onion  finely chopped
  • 4 garlic cloves, minced
  • Spices (ground coriander, black pepper, cinnamon, turmeric powder)
  • Salt as desired 
  • 1 tablespoon tomato paste1
  • 1 tbs butter and 1 tbs corn oil 
  • 2 black dried lime or 2 tbs lemon juice 
  • 1/3 cup raisin
  • fried almonds and cashews 
Preparation
  1. Place the casserole pan on medium heat, add the butter and the oil. Fry the onion for 5 minuets.
  2. Add  the pieces meat and wait until become brown. Add the carrot, garlic, scraped orange ski, and fresh tomato, cover for 5 minuets. 
  3. Add the spices, dried lime, tomato paste and the water, cover the casserole, low the heat, let the food boil for 90 minutes.
  4. Clean the rice by water and drain it. Add the salt to the meat. Add the rice, raisin . Let the food boil  on medium heat   for 10 minutes. low the heat to simmer and let the food for 25 to 30 minutes.
  5.      Serve the rice in a large dish. Place the rice first, top with meat and garnish with almonds.

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