🇮🇶 Iraq cuisine · #16

Mutabbag Simach

Mutabbag Simach
Time75 min
Serves6
Ingredients8

Spiced rice with raisins and fried onion layered with fried fish — Basra's famous dish.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Season the fish with turmeric and salt and fry.
  2. Fry the onions and raisins.
  3. Cook the rice with spices.
  4. Layer rice, fish, onion and raisins, repeat, and rest on low heat for 10 minutes.
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