Riz 3a Djej

This recipe takes me straight back home to my childhood. And I guess I’m doing the same with my children – they love having it once a week!

What you need:

1 whole chicken

About 2 liters of water

1 fresh ginger

2 cinnamon sticks

4 pepper corns

1 bay leaf

1 whole onion

2 cardamom pods

Place 2 liters of water in a large pan and add the chicken. Once it starts boiling remove the extras that come out of it and add the ginger, cinnamon sticks, pepper corns, bay leaf, onions cut into quarters, and cardamom pods. Boil for about an hour until chicken is cooked. Remove the chicken from the broth as well as all the thick spices and discard the spices.

1 cup Basmati Rice

200g minced lamb

1 tbsp pine nuts

1 tbsp butter

1 tsp cinnamon

½ tsp all spice

2 cups from the chicken stock

Melt the butter and stir fry the pinenuts until golden. Cook the minced lamb, add the salt and spices. Add the broth, bring to boil and cook on low fire until rice is tender.

For the soup:

Remaining broth

½ cup rice

Sprinkle Saffron

Shredded chicken which was cooked

1 tsp salt

Combine all ingredients together and bring to boil on low fire for 30 minutes or until soup is thick.

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