Rice and grains
Yellow Rice with Chicken
Yellow rice with chicken is a delicious dish of fluffy rice cooked in chicken stock and colored with turmeric, or with duga safra. It is finished with a topping of tasty nuts. Here is the method.
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Yellow rice... or with duga safra.. a rich dish of rice and chicken, garnished with nuts.. There are many ways to prepare this delicious chicken rice dish, and this is one easy method
Ingredients
- 2 cups American rice
- 4 cups broth or chicken cooking liquid
- 1 kilo chicken breast
- Seasonings for boiling the chicken / bay leaves and cinnamon sticks
- 1 cup canned corn
- 4 chicken bouillon cubes
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon turmeric or duga safra
- Salt to taste
- Nuts to taste
- Yellow rice with chicken, prepared by a friend and cook of Shou Tabkhin Today:
- Mona Qasem
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Method
- Wash the chicken thoroughly with water, salt, and vinegar, and drain it.
- Sprinkle a little salt on it, then sauté it in a little oil until it browns slightly.
- Put the chicken in a pot on the stove with aromatics and water and let it boil until it is well cooked.
- Wash the rice then soak it in water with a tablespoon of salt for 15 minutes.
- Put a little oil in a pot and add chicken stock cubes, drain the rice and add it with the spices and salt and stir.
- Add four cups of the chicken cooking stock and stir.
- Leave the rice over high heat until the stock boils, then reduce the heat.
- Shortly before the rice is done, add the corn and stir, then cover the pot again and leave it over low heat until the rice is well cooked.
- Turn off the heat and leave the pot covered so the rice rests for a few minutes.
- Pour the yellow rice into a serving dish, arrange the boiled chicken pieces on top, and garnish with fried or toasted almonds and pine nuts.
- Mona Qasim
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Notes and serving ideas
- Rice with Meat






