Best Lebanese Chicken with Rice
Best Lebanese Chicken with Rice

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, best lebanese chicken with rice. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Best Lebanese Chicken with Rice is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Best Lebanese Chicken with Rice is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

This delicious Lebanese rice with chicken dish known as roz a djej in Arabic, is served at every large family gathering, party, and holiday dinner (Even Thanksgiving!). The warm spices with ground beef and rice make it the perfect rice dish to be served alongside rotisserie chickens, a large turkey, roast. A traditional Lebanese dish typically served for special occasions, this recipe exemplifies the importance of spices in Lebanese cuisine.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook best lebanese chicken with rice using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Best Lebanese Chicken with Rice:
  1. Make ready 4 chicken thighs
  2. Prepare 2 chicken breasts
  3. Make ready 300 g finely ground beef
  4. Make ready 2 cups white rice
  5. Make ready 1 big onion
  6. Take 1 small onion, finely shopped
  7. Make ready 1/4 cup raw pine nuts, roasted
  8. Take 1/4 cup almonds, roasted
  9. Prepare 5 tablespoons vegetable oil
  10. Prepare 2 liters water
  11. Make ready 1 cinnamon stick
  12. Prepare 3 bay leaves
  13. Make ready 3 cardamom pods
  14. Prepare 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  15. Take 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  16. Prepare 1 teaspoon salt

Hushwee is a meat mixture cooked in clarified butter and scented with cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice which I always have on hand thanks to my go-to. This traditional Lebanese chicken and rice dish is one of my favorites. Lebanese rice is basically a rice pilaf that's made up of three ingredients: long grain white rice, vermicelli noodles and butter or olive oil (or a combination of Made this Lebanese Rice today and it was so good! Probably the best my rice has ever come out, and my toddler and hubby (who are not.

Instructions to make Best Lebanese Chicken with Rice:
  1. In a frying pan, lightly fry the chicken pieces on both sides in 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Remove and put in a saucepan. The chicken shouldn’t be completely cooked.
  2. Add 2 liters of water over the chicken pieces and let it boil. As the water boils remove with a spoon any foam that might form on the water surface. Discard. Once the foam removed add 1 onion, cinnamon stick, cardamom pods and bay leaves to the water. Cover the pan with a lid keeping a small opening to prevent the water to overflow while boiling. Keep on medium heat until the chicken is well cooked.
  3. Once cooked, remove the chicken from the saucepan and set aside. Strain the chicken broth and keep aside for later use.
  4. In a deep pan, fry the chopped onion with 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil until golden, then add the ground meat and keep on cooking until meat turns brown.
  5. Add the rice, salt, pepper and cinnamon. Toss for 2 min then add 4 cups of chicken broth. Cover and let it simmer for 25 min or until rice is well cooked.
  6. To serve, put the rice in a large plate, place the chicken pieces on top. Sprinkle with the roasted almonds and pine nuts.

In her book, The Lebanese Kitchen, she presents a comprehensive list of her own recipes for family favourites along with classic dishes handed from generation to generation. Lebanese hashweh combines ground meat and rice with pine nuts, allspice and other spices to make a side dish, or a stuffing for chicken or turkey. One of my favorites is Hashweh, a Lebanese rendition of meat and rice. Traditionally this dish calls for ground lamb or lamb chunks. This is a simple one-pot chicken and rice dish from Lebanon that is eaten regularly all over the region.

So that is going to wrap it up for this special food best lebanese chicken with rice recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I’m confident you will make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food in home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page in your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!