🇰🇼 Kuwait cuisine · #1

Lamb Machboos

Lamb Machboos
Time120 min
Serves8
Ingredients11

Kuwait's national dish: basmati rice cooked in lamb stock with spices and dried lime, served with daqoos (spicy tomato sauce).

Ingredients

Method

  1. Brown the onions, then the lamb and spices.
  2. Add tomatoes, limes and water and cook 1½ hours until tender.
  3. Remove and brown the lamb in the oven.
  4. Cook the rice in the stock until absorbed and sprinkle with saffron water.
  5. Serve with the lamb and daqoos.
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