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Yellow Rice

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Yellow Rice

Yellow rice with kabsa spices and turmeric, in an easy and delicious homemade recipe! How about serving it alongside grilled meat or chicken for a complete meal?

Total time55 min
Prep15 min
Cook40 min
Yield4 servings
DifficultyEasy
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Rice and grainsGulfDairy freeGluten freeNut freeEgg freeEasyBalanced time

Recipe story

Yellow rice in an easy and delicious homemade recipe, suitable alongside many meat and chicken dishes or even salad

Ingredients

  • 1 cup basmati rice
  • 1 tablespoon kabsa spice
  • 1 tablespoon turmeric
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 chicken or vegetable stock cube
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Method

  1. Soak the rice for 1 hour in hot water
    Timers: 60 min
  2. Boil a little water and add the stock cube, spices, and salt, then mix well until the cube dissolves
  3. After soaking the rice for 1 hour, drain it
    Timers: 60 min
  4. In a pot over the heat, add the tablespoon of oil, then the rice and the boiling water mixed with the spices, stock cube, and salt, making sure the water just covers the rice... add more boiling water if needed... but do not add too much so the rice does not become mushy
  5. When the water boils again with the rice, cover the pot and reduce the heat until the rice is cooked
  6. Yellow rice recipe from a friend of the Shou Tabkhin El Youm site
  7. Fafi nohmn tahini
  8. For more delicious rice recipes on our site, here is Vegetable Rice Recipe
  9. Also, here is the detailed method for making Rice Cooked with Vermicelli

Notes and serving ideas

  • Vegetable Rice Recipe
  • Rice Cooked with Vermicelli
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