Mutton Machboos (Bahraini Mutton Rice)
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Arabic
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Serves: 4
 
Machboos is an Arabic rice dish in which the chicken/mutton is slow cooked with different spices and rice over low flame for a long time which imparts the entire dish an awesome flavor and taste.
Ingredients
  • Basmati Rice: 2 cups
  • Onions: 2 large chopped
  • Jalapeno Pepper: 2 deseeded and finely chopped
  • Tomatoes: 2 large chopped
  • Ghee: 3 tbsp
  • Turmeric: 1 tsp
  • Oil: 4 tbsp
  • Mutton: 1 kg cut into pieces
  • Ginger: 1 tbsp grated
  • Garlic: 5 cloves finely chopped
  • Green Cardamom: 5
  • Cinnamon: 1 large stick
  • Dried Lime (Loomi): 3 with several holes punched in them
  • Clove Powder: ¼ tsp
  • Chicken Stock: 2.5 cups
  • Rosewater: 1-2 tsp (optional)
  • Coriander: ¼ cup finely chopped
  • Salt: 2.5 tsp
  • Baharat: 1 tbsp
Instructions
  1. Wash the rice and soak it in water for ½ hour.
  2. Apply some salt to the mutton pieces and keep aside.
  3. In a large pan, heat the oil. Add the mutton pieces and fry the mutton for a couple of minutes on either side. Keep aside.
  4. Heat ghee in the pan. Add onion and fry till brown.
  5. Add the ginger, garlic, jalapeno pepper and stir fry for 2-3 minutes.
  6. Add the turmeric powder, baharat and salt and mix well.
  7. Add the mutton, tomatoes, cardamom, cinnamon, dried lime,clove powder and mix well.
  8. Add chicken stock and mix. Reduce heat to low, close the pan and slow cook for 1 hour.
  9. Add the coriander, rice and 1-2 cups water and mix well. Close and cook till rice is completely cooked.
  10. Sprinkle the rose water before serving.
Recipe by YourHungerStop at https://www.yourhungerstop.com/mutton-machboos-bahraini-mutton-rice/