Cardamom Infused Chicken With Rice
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[edit] Description
This dish is my ultimate comfort food. Its comanly eaten in winter and during the month of Ramadan for the predawn breakfast,but for me its a regular at least 2 or 3 times a month. Its always served with doggos.(Saudi salsa). (noat in Saudi the thigh and drumstick is not disjointed and is served as one portion).
[edit] Ingredients
- 1 1/4 kg chicken, with skin on, disjointed and washed
- 4 cups water
- 7 green cardamom (peel the skin slightly so seeds can fall out)
- 2 teaspoons salt(to taste)
- 3/4 cup Basmati Rice
- 2 cups milk
- 3 tablespoons ghee
- 2 pieces Gum Arabic (mastikah Do not leave it out)
[edit] Directions
- Boil Chicken in the water with cardamoms and salt, untill soft and tender.(1 hour).
- Remove Chicken to an oven tray.
- Strain chicken broth into a big bowl and.
- Pour back into the cooking pot.
- Add rice to the broth, taste for salt.
- Cook rice till extreamly soft and mushy.
- Add milk and simmer for 10 mins, stirring continually on low heat.
- Heat ghee and mastikah in a saucepan on the stove till mastikah melts.(it would not work in the microwave).
- Add melted mastikah to the rice and mix well. Switch heat off close pot and rest for 10 minutes.
- Pop Chicken under the grill to redden .
- Place rice onto serving plate arrange Chicken over the rice.
