Best Lebanese Chicken with Rice
Best Lebanese Chicken with Rice

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This delicious Lebanese rice with chicken dish known as roz a djej in Arabic, is served at every large family gathering, party, and holiday dinner (Even Thanksgiving!). The warm spices with ground beef and rice make it the perfect rice dish to be served alongside rotisserie chickens, a large turkey, roast beef or any other main protein. Best Lebanese Chicken with Rice A savory dish: The rice is cooked with meat broth then topped with chicken pieces and roasted nuts.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have best lebanese chicken with rice using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Best Lebanese Chicken with Rice:
  1. Prepare 4 chicken thighs
  2. Make ready 2 chicken breasts
  3. Get 300 g finely ground beef
  4. Make ready 2 cups white rice
  5. Take 1 big onion
  6. Prepare 1 small onion, finely shopped
  7. Make ready 1/4 cup raw pine nuts, roasted
  8. Make ready 1/4 cup almonds, roasted
  9. Prepare 5 tablespoons vegetable oil
  10. Get 2 liters water
  11. Get 1 cinnamon stick
  12. Make ready 3 bay leaves
  13. Make ready 3 cardamom pods
  14. Take 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  15. Take 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  16. Take 1 teaspoon salt

Freekeh with chicken is an easy weeknight meal that is such a delicious, hearty and healthy family dinner. This Lebanese dish is packed full of flavor, high in protein from the chicken and made with whole grain freekeh - it's perfect for serving a crowd. Lebanese Chicken and Rice A traditional Lebanese dish typically served for special occasions, this recipe exemplifies the importance of spices in Lebanese cuisine. The delicately spiced lamb and rice is topped with cinnamon-dusted chicken, golden almonds and pine nuts.

Steps to make Best Lebanese Chicken with Rice:
  1. In a frying pan, lightly fry the chicken pieces on both sides in 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Remove and put in a saucepan. The chicken shouldn’t be completely cooked.
  2. Add 2 liters of water over the chicken pieces and let it boil. As the water boils remove with a spoon any foam that might form on the water surface. Discard. Once the foam removed add 1 onion, cinnamon stick, cardamom pods and bay leaves to the water. Cover the pan with a lid keeping a small opening to prevent the water to overflow while boiling. Keep on medium heat until the chicken is well cooked.
  3. Once cooked, remove the chicken from the saucepan and set aside. Strain the chicken broth and keep aside for later use.
  4. In a deep pan, fry the chopped onion with 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil until golden, then add the ground meat and keep on cooking until meat turns brown.
  5. Add the rice, salt, pepper and cinnamon. Toss for 2 min then add 4 cups of chicken broth. Cover and let it simmer for 25 min or until rice is well cooked.
  6. To serve, put the rice in a large plate, place the chicken pieces on top. Sprinkle with the roasted almonds and pine nuts.

Set chicken aside to cool until just cool enough to handle, remove the meat from the bone and shred, discard the skin, keep warm. Lebanese Chicken Fatteh includes chickpeas, toasted pita bread (I toss it with some olive oil, thyme, salt and pepper), shredded chicken (cooked with mediterranean spices), toasted pine nuts (or toasted almonds), and fresh chopped parsley. You must rinse the rice to get rid of excess starch which causes rice to be sticky (Lebanese rice is not meant to be sticky). Can't get enough of your local Lebanese restaurant? Make our easy, expert Lebanese recipes right at home.

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