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Upside-Down Rice with Fava Beans and Chicken
Total time85 min
Prep25 min
Cook60 min
Yield4 servings
DifficultyHard
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Rice and grains

ChefAmir Youssef

Upside-Down Rice with Fava Beans and Chicken

Rice with fava beans and chicken... do you know this recipe? A mix of maqluba, rice with fava beans, and rice with chicken!!! Try it — it’s definitely delicious with yogurt!

Upside-down rice with fava beans and chicken... a home-style recipe that may be new to many

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Ingredients

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  • Chicken
  • Seasonings for boiling the chicken
  • 1/4 cup oil or 1 large spoonful of ghee
  • 1 medium onion, finely chopped
  • 3 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1/2 kilo green fava beans, or whole fava beans in their outer pods
  • 2 cups rice
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon seven-spice blend
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried coriander
  • Chicken stock
  • Fried nuts for garnish

Method

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  1. Wash the chicken, then boil it with the seasonings until cooked through
  2. Put 1/4 cup oil or 1 large spoonful of ghee in a pot over the heat and sauté the chopped onion and crushed garlic in the oil
  3. When they soften, add the chicken pieces and stir
  4. After a short while, when the chicken starts to color, add the green fava beans, shelled or whole after cutting
  5. Add the rice too, after soaking it for half an hour in advance and draining it, then stir
  6. Add the salt and spices and stir, then cover the rice with the strained chicken stock, free of the boiling seasonings... at a rate of 1 1/2 cups of stock for each cup of rice, or according to the type of rice
  7. After the stock comes to a boil... reduce the heat under the pot and cover it
  8. Leave the rice over low heat for half an hour until cooked
  9. Serve the rice with fava beans and chicken in a serving dish and garnish with fried nuts... and you can add more pieces of boiled and oven-roasted chicken on top, as desired
  10. This delicious recipe, upside-down rice with fava beans and chicken, is from our friend and cook at Who’s Cooking Today
  11. For more from Amir, here is Francisco Sandwiches

Recipe tags

Rice and grainsLevantDairy freeGluten freeNut freeEgg freeHardLong cookBoiledBakedFriedGrilledChickenRice

Notes and serving ideas

  • Francisco Sandwiches

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