Machboos

Ingredients

Quantities for 5 servings.

• 800 g Prawns, large, peeled
• 500 g Basmati rice
• 3 piece Onions
• 3 piece Tomatoes
• 3 piece Dried lime loomi
• 1 tbsp Bizar spice mix
• 2 tsp Turmeric
• 5 clove Garlic
• 30 g Ginger
• 40 g Coriander
• 2 piece Green chilli
• 80 g Ghee
• to taste Salt

Method

1. Rinse the rice until the water runs clear and soak it twenty minutes.
2. Fry the onion in ghee to a deep gold, fifteen minutes, and set a third aside.
3. Add the garlic, ginger, bizar and turmeric and warm them a minute, until fragrant.
4. Add the tomatoes and the pierced limes, pour in water at one and a half times the volume of the rice, and season.
5. Bring it up, add the rice, cover and cook fifteen minutes on a low heat.
6. Lay the prawns over the rice, cover and give it five more minutes; they cook in the steam.
7. Rest it ten minutes and scatter with the reserved onion, coriander and chilli.