Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, riz ‘a djeij (lebanese rice and chicken) رز ع دجاج. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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It is then served with roasted chicken on top and garnished with roasted almonds and pine nuts. Riz 'a djeij (Lebanese rice and chicken) رز ع دجاج. Riz 'a djeij (Lebanese rice and chicken) رز ع دجاج.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook riz ‘a djeij (lebanese rice and chicken) رز ع دجاج using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Riz ‘a djeij (Lebanese rice and chicken) رز ع دجاج:
- Prepare 1 medium onion
- Get 3 cups basmati rice
- Get 250 g minced beef
- Get 3 chicken breasts
- Take 6 cups water
- Take Spices
- Make ready 1 tsp Lebanese seven spices
- Take 1/2 tsp ground all spice
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Make ready 1 chicken stock (or 2, optional)
- Make ready 1/4 tsp fine grain coffee (optional)
- Get 1/2 cup raisin (optional)
- Prepare 1/2 cup pistachios
- Prepare Mixed nuts for garnish (pine nuts, pistachio, cashew…)
Transfer chicken into a large deep soup saucepan. Add the water, bay leaf and cinnamon stick. Drain the stock from the chicken into a large bowl and leave in refrigerator overnight. STEP B: While chicken is cooking, prepare stuffing on top of stove.
Instructions to make Riz ‘a djeij (Lebanese rice and chicken) رز ع دجاج:
- I found the Lebanese seven spices in a local supermarket in Bristol called Dunya but I think they sell them in Asda. Those spices are a must have! They go perfectly with minced beef and all types of meat
- Start with frying the onion in a little bit of olive oil
- When the onion is almost cooked add the minced beef and put the heat up
- Add the spices to the meat and mix well until the meat is cooked
- Add the rice and mix it with the meat then add the raisin and pistachios to the mixture
- Add 6 cups of water to the rice and leave for almost 20min until cooked
- In a pan, add some oil and fry the chicken until cooked, then cut it into small pieces
- Add chicken pieces to the cooked rice and mix a little bit. Keep some of the chicken for the top
- Fry any nuts you like then add it with the chicken on top of the rice and bonne appetite!
In a saucepan, saute butter and meat until meat is brown. Add the washed and drained rice, salt, pepper, and cinnamon. Bring to a boil over high heat. Please practice hand-washing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Riz ala' dajaj (pronounced da-jej) is a delicious Lebanese rice dish traditionally cooked for special occasions.
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