🇧🇭 Bahrain cuisine · #1

Bahraini Machboos

Bahraini Machboos
Time90 min
Serves6
Ingredients10

Bahrain's national dish: rice with spices and dried lime with chicken, fish or lamb, served with daqoos.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Fry onion and garlic, then chicken and spices.
  2. Add tomato, limes and water; cook 40 minutes.
  3. Remove chicken and cook rice in the broth.
  4. Serve with the browned chicken, coriander and daqoos.
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