Arabic Rice / Cupsa / Machboos
Posted On 02-Mar-2007 at 8:29 PM by Seena
I have tried this dish many times.Very easy to prepare and delicious.Children will love it since it is no spicy and rice is very tasty.You can add nuts, dry fruits and vegetables to this.
Ingredients
Chicken, cut up- 1 Kg
Tomato paste, small can- 1
Onion chopped - 1
Rice basmati - 4 cups
Olive oil- 1/4 cup
Salt
Cinnamon-4 sticks of 1/2 " size
Cloves-4 numbers
Black pepper corns -1/2 tsp
Cumin-1/4 tsp
Cardamoms-4 numbers
Method
Wash and clean rice.
Heat Olive oil over medium heat in deep cooking pot.
Add chopped onions, and saute until transparent.
Add chicken, stir and cook half way done.(If you like add little pepper powder).
Add spices.Stir in 8 cups water, add tomato paste and rice.
Allow to come to a boil.
Cover and reduce heat.
Let cook until rice is tender.
Arabi Rice is so good.I love the brown colored Biryani.Recipe sounds great,I will try it.My kids will love anything with Chicken!:)
Hi Seena I once had some Lebanese rice with lamb and it was delicious. I wonder if this recipe is the same as the ingredients sound about right to how it tasted. I will try this sometime and let you know how it went - if it is as nice as your vada recipe I'm sure it will taste great! :)
Jeena,
It might be the same rice you have eaten.This is the usual arabic rice also known as cupsa. I love this rice which tastes great and very very easy to prepare! Hope you will love it.
seena you mean Arabic Rice = Machboos .you want Machboos Reciepe..Write Comment box.Yes OR No?
Dear Anon,
Thanks for asking.
I need the recipe.
Please share more recipes if you have,
:)
thanks again.
Growing up my best friend was arabic and her mother would make this simple chicken and rice dish that I absolutely loved! My friend move to Califormia and I lost touch and her mothers recipe. This one is not quite the one I had but it is something I really want to try. My problem is that I'm not sure of the amounts of the ingredients. It says Cinnamon - 4, and Cardamom - 4, but 4 what? I know that I can put in 4 Cloves but 4 sticks of Cinnamon sounds like way too much and I'm not sure how Cardamom comes. Please help me out because my mouth is set for this, I'm going to be obsessing over it until I get to have some!
Awaiting with drool...... Lori
Dear Lori,
I have edited the recipe for you.
Use 1/2 inch sizes of cinnamon sticks and for cloves and cardamoms use each 4 numbers.
Since you try this for first time, try only with half of the ingredients. Since 4 cups of rice is enough to feed 5 or 6 persons, it would be too much for you, I think.
I am not sure how much would be the amount of tomato paste in a small can, but I usually use 2 Tbspoons of tomato paste for 1 cup rice while making this.
I love this delicious rice very much and would prepare in every week.I have drafted my version with fish and will post later, insha Allah.
Let me know how your dish turned out and don't hesitate to ask me if you have any more doubts..
Good luck ! :)
Seena,
Years ago, my friend from Saudi Arabia made a dish similar to this. I do recall fresh tomatoes being used and the chicken was allowed to boil and then taken from the pot and browned in the oven. Do you know of this variation? Thank you.
Anon,
I have seen that type Arabic rice, but never tried.If you want to get more information about it, will try to get..
You can use fresh tomatoes in this recipe too.. :)