A famous Saudi dish

Saudi groats with chicken

Ingredients

• chicken.
• Two pieces each: chopped tomatoes, chopped green peppers, and chopped onions.
• Oil, or butter - as desired.
• Water as needed.
• Four cups of jareesh.
• Curcuma.
• salt.
• cumin.

How to prepare

• Soak the groats in water for half an hour, then filter it.
• Cut the chicken, after cleaning it well, into four pieces.
• Heat a little oil or butter in a deep pot, and sauté the chopped onions a little.
• Add the chicken pieces over the onions, stir them slightly, then add the spices, cumin, and turmeric.
• Add the tomatoes and drained groats to the pot, and stir the ingredients.
• Pour water approximately five centimeters above the level of the groats.
• Cover the pot, and leave the groats and chicken mixture on low heat for six hours, stirring it every half hour, and adding water when needed.
• Add pepper after three hours.
• Remove the bones from the chicken after the groats and chicken are cooked.
• Season the groats with salt - as desired.
• Pour the hot groats into a serving dish, and put two tablespoons of olive oil on top.
• Serve jareesh alongside bread.

Saudi Kabsa

Ingredients

• kilo of chicken.
• Three cups of basmati rice.
• Four cloves of garlic.
• Three pods of green pepper.
• Half a cup of corn oil.
• Two onions.
• Three pieces of lime.
• a tablespoon of salt.
• Three tablespoons of tomato paste.
• Ten cardamom pods.
• Ten cloves.
• One stick of cinnamon.
• Three tomatoes.
• ¼ teaspoon of black pepper.
• A tablespoon of mixed spice.

How to prepare

• Heat the oil in a pot over medium heat.
• Add onions and garlic to the oil, and stir until the onions wilt.
• Add pepper and lime, and stir the ingredients until the onion becomes golden.
• Add tomato paste, and continue stirring until it dries a little, then add the spices and chopped tomatoes, and leave the mixture until it thickens a little.
• Add the chicken, cover it with water, cover the pot, and leave it on medium heat until cooked.
• Take the chicken out and set it aside.
• Allow the broth to boil vigorously, then add the rice, let it boil vigorously for several minutes, then cover the pot, and leave it on low heat for half an hour until the rice is cooked.
• Place the chicken in an oven tray, wipe its surface with a little tomato paste, sprinkle it with a little turmeric, roast it in the oven, and leave it until it browns.
• Pour the rice into a serving dish, place the grilled chicken on top, and serve the kabsa.

Silli rice with chicken

Ingredients

• Two chopped chickens.
• Slices of green lemon.
• Black pepper and salt - to taste.
• Two tablespoons of melted butter.
• Sticks of dry thyme.
• Three cups of washed short-grain rice.
• Half a cup of butter cut into cubes.
• Two grams of ground mastic.
• Two cups of heavy cream.
• Two and a half liters of chicken broth.
• Ten cardamom pods.
• Salt, to taste-.

Decorating ingredients:

• Roasted pine nuts.
• Chopped parsley.

How to prepare

• Brush the chicken with melted butter, and season with salt, pepper, dried thyme, and green lemon slices.
• Roast the chicken in the oven for half an hour at 220 degrees Celsius.
• Take the chicken out, cover it with foil, and return it to the oven for a quarter of an hour.
• Boil chicken broth over low heat with mastic and cinnamon, and leave for a minute; Until the flavor penetrates into it.
• Add the rice to the broth, stir it slightly, then leave it for twenty-five minutes on low heat.
• Add the cream and butter pieces to the rice, and season it with salt.
• Pour the rice into a plate, place the chicken on top, and decorate it with toasted pine nuts and chopped parsley.