
Ingredients
Fish 6 fillets big
basmati rice 3 cups
onion 1 big
tomato paste 3 Tbsp
cardamoms 3
cinnamons 3 pieces 1/2 " size
cloves 3
pepper corns 1 tsp
cumin seeds 1/2 tsp
pepper powder 1 tsp
saffron few strands
dried lemon 1 whole
zaatar 1 tsp optional
garlic ginger paste 2 tsp
olive oil 2 Tbsp
Hot water 6 cups
salt

How to prepare
Marinate fish pieces using pepper powder, salt and garlic ginger paste. Heat little oil in a pan and fry the fish pieces. No need to make too crisp.
Heat olive oil, add cumin seeds and all spices . Saute chopped onion in this. When it is transparent add tomato paste , washed rice and dried lemon . Add 6 cups boiled water into this. Cook it on a medium heat. When the rice is about 3/4 cooked , reduce heat, add saffron, thyme and place the fish pieces on top.Cover with a lid and cook this on low flame until done. Swich off fire when the rice is cooked. First place the fish pieces into a serving bowl. Then serve rice without breaking the fish pieces.
thats a fancy name for the dish :) looks realy yummy!
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this diff. variety of rice looks nice..will try it out sometime
love tha name.....this is new to me..sounds grt...wanna try smetime :)
ReplyDeleteoh i have had this a long time back and tried making it but didn't have a good recipe. will surely try it ur way now.thanks!!
ReplyDeleteSeena, I can't keep up with your blog:) You post so many and they are all mouth-watering:)) You are such an inspiration! This dish looks yummy. We add raisins and other dried stuff to our pilaffs, too, but this recipe is a bit different so I am going to try it. Thanks a lot!
ReplyDeletelove the name:)looks so yumm
ReplyDeleteDear Seena,
ReplyDeleteU've got a wonderful blog...i've tried many recipes but i dint get the real taste...for sure gonna try this one....
This sounds new to me.... Love this recipe a lot.... Sounds great...
ReplyDeleteHum Fancy name, rice is tempting
ReplyDeleteLooks delicious Seena. I love Machboos a lot!
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Looks wonderful, Seena.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the nice info regarding arabic rice :) Lovely recipe and photo. On our Disney trip, we also got to visit a Moroccan restaurant where we had Chicken Shawarma and Tabbouleh for the first time . It was delicious :) I love arabic foods too :)
ReplyDeleteoh,you will really make us try it by those mouth watering pictures, one thing about the machboos do we have to drain the rice, or cook it till water dries. i make machboos but with arabic masala, but will surely try urs, naseeba
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