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Maqlooba Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2.5 lbs of chicken (cut up fryer or thighs and breasts w/o bones or skin
2 boxes of chicken broth (8 cups)
2 cups water
2.5 cups white rice (basmati is best)
1/3 pkg of angel hair pasta or 3/4 coil vermicelli broken into 1 inch pieces
3 or 4 potato scrubbed clean and sliced 1/4 thick
3 cloves of garlic minced
Large head of cauliflower sliced
Large onion diced
2-3Tbls of ground Allspice
2Tsp black pepper
2Tsp salt
1 to 1.5Tbls of turmeric
6 -8 tbls of olive oil

Large container of Greek Yogurt plain
Directions:
Directions:
Put 2 tbls of oil in large dutch oven on Med-high heat. Put in the chicken pieces when the oil is hot and quickly brown them, you will do a few batches so they brown not steam. You are looking for color not cooking them through. Remove them to a plate.

Add 2 tbls of oil to pot and add rice and pasta, stir constantly until rice and pasta start to color up a little, be sure not to burn. Remove to a bowl and set aside.

Add another tbls of oil and brown the potato slices remove and then brown the cauliflower. Removing all to a plate covered in paper towels to get the oil off. Use more olive oil as needed for browning.

Add the onions to the pot and cook until soft, add garlic cook 30 seconds more.

Now, add the rice mixture, then the chicken, then the potatoes and lastly the cauliflower.

Mix the spices into the broth and water and pour it into the pot, bring this to a boil and then turn down and cover to cook everything through for 30 to 45 minutes.

When it's done you can either turn the whole pot onto a large serving platter or scoop it out of the pot directly onto plates.

Adjust the spices to your taste, I usually add more of all of them.

Top with Yogurt and Maqlooba salad and serve with Pita bread.

Tastes even better then next day.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
12
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
2 hours

 

 

 

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