How to Cook Saudi Kabsa: Urdu – English Recipe

How to Cook Saudi Kabsa, complete recipe of Saudi rice with sauce and spices in Urdu and English method.

How to Cook Saudi Kabsa

Ingredients for Lamb:

1. Mutton or lamb – ½ kg
2. Ginger garlic paste – 2 tsp
3. Butter – 4 tbsp
4. Oil – 3 tbsp
5. Salt – 1 tsp
6. Green cardamoms – 5
7. Cinnamon sticks – 2
8. Water – 5 cups
9. Kabsa spice mix – 2 tsp

Method:

• Take a pan, add 2 tbsp butter, 2 tbsp oil and fry mutton until brown.
• Also add green cardamom, salt, cinnamon sticks and ginger garlic paste while frying.
• Then add 5 glasses of water; cover and cook until mutton or lamb done.
• Then remove from heat and separate the mutton and stock.
• Now in clean pan, add 2 tbsp butter, 1 tbsp oil and fry mutton for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Then add kabsa spice mix and mutton is done.

Ingredients for rice:

1. Rice – ½ kg
2. Butter – 2 tbsp
3. Oil – 2 tbsp
4. Thinly chopped onion – 1
5. Carrots – 2 cut in cubes
6. Capsicum – 1 chopped
7. Salt – to taste
8. Fried cumin seeds – 1 tsp
9. Crushed coriander seeds – 1 tsp
10. Black pepper – 1 tsp
11. Tomato – 4 blended
12. Kabsa spice mix – 1 tsp
13. Mutton stock – as required

Method:

• In a pan, add butter and oil, heat it up and sauté onion, then add carrots, salt, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, black pepper, fry for 1 minute.
• Then add washed and drained rice and blended tomato mix well.
• Now add stock according to rice and kabsa spice mix, cover and cook until water dries.
• Then add capsicum and put on dum for 10 minutes.
• Then serve with mutton, kabsa sauce and garnish with nuts topping.

Nuts for Toppings:

1. Pine nuts – ½ cup
2. Chana dal – 2 tbsp (boiled)
3. Raisins – 2 tbsp (soaked in water for ½ an hour)
4. Butter – 1 tbsp

Kabsa Spice Mix Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Ground saffron – ½ tsp
2. Green cardamom powder – ½ tsp
3. Cinnamon powder – ¼ tsp
4. Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
5. Ground coriander seed – ½ tsp
6. White pepper – ½ tsp
7. Garam masala powder – ½ tsp
8. Ginger powder – ½ tsp

Method:

Kabsa Sauce:

Ingredients:

1. Butter – 1 tbsp
2. Oil – 1 tbsp
3. Chopped onion – 3 tbsp
4. Peeled tomato – 1 can or 4 peeled fresh tomato
5. Tomato paste – 1 tsp
6. Salt – ½ tsp
7. Black pepper – ½ tsp

Method:

• Take a pan, add butter, oil and sauté onion.
• Then add peeled tomato, tomato paste, salt, black pepper and cook for 5 minutes.
• Then serve with kabsa rice.