🇰🇼 Kuwait cuisine · #2

Mutabbaq Zubaidi

Mutabbaq Zubaidi
Time75 min
Serves6
Ingredients10

Fried silver pomfret over rice cooked in fish stock with coriander and hashu — Kuwait's most famous fish dish.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Season the fish with turmeric, salt and spices and fry.
  2. Fry onion and garlic, add water, coriander and lime and boil.
  3. Cook the rice in the stock.
  4. Lay the fish over the rice and cover for 10 minutes.
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