Bolied Chicken and rice
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- Number of Servings: 4
Ingredients
For the Soup:1) 800g of chicken meat (Remove skin for reduced fat)2) 1 large opion chopped3) 1 cup pearl barley uncooked4) 1 tomato chopped5) 2 mediam raw potato cubedSalt and Pepper to tastefor rice: 1) 3 cups of white Basmati uncooked2) 1 medium potato sliced to 2-3mm thick Optional: make cup of instant Gravy
1) Chop onion and fry with very little oil
2) chop the chicken into small cubes and add to onion to seal.
3) wash pearl barley and add with chopped tomato to chicken
4) Skin potato and chop to cube and add to chicken
5) Add water until the mx is covered
6) Season with Salt and black pepper to taste
Note: This cooks the meat which will be added to rice later but also makes soup for at least 4-6
To cook the rice persian style:
1) Put 3 cups of white uncooked basmati rice in a pan and wash several times until the water leaving the pan is clear
2) Add boiling water and salt to rice and Boil the rice for 8-10 minutes. Every minute test by picking one grain and when you squeeze it should just about break. We do not want it to absorb too much water and be mushy
3) Immediately sieve the rice and wash it with warm water to dran the salt
4) get a non stick pan and put some vegetable oil in
5) Arrange the sliced potato in the bottom and add the rice on top
5) Cover the pan and cook on low heat for 40 min
Once the chicken and rice are cooked:
1) Take most of the meat from soup and add to the rice
2) If you wish make gravy using instant gravy granular and add as a souce
This will create 4-6 servings of soup and 4 servings of Rice and meat
Serving Size: Makes 4 large portions
Number of Servings: 4
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user MBARAD.
2) chop the chicken into small cubes and add to onion to seal.
3) wash pearl barley and add with chopped tomato to chicken
4) Skin potato and chop to cube and add to chicken
5) Add water until the mx is covered
6) Season with Salt and black pepper to taste
Note: This cooks the meat which will be added to rice later but also makes soup for at least 4-6
To cook the rice persian style:
1) Put 3 cups of white uncooked basmati rice in a pan and wash several times until the water leaving the pan is clear
2) Add boiling water and salt to rice and Boil the rice for 8-10 minutes. Every minute test by picking one grain and when you squeeze it should just about break. We do not want it to absorb too much water and be mushy
3) Immediately sieve the rice and wash it with warm water to dran the salt
4) get a non stick pan and put some vegetable oil in
5) Arrange the sliced potato in the bottom and add the rice on top
5) Cover the pan and cook on low heat for 40 min
Once the chicken and rice are cooked:
1) Take most of the meat from soup and add to the rice
2) If you wish make gravy using instant gravy granular and add as a souce
This will create 4-6 servings of soup and 4 servings of Rice and meat
Serving Size: Makes 4 large portions
Number of Servings: 4
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user MBARAD.
Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 684.1
- Total Fat: 8.8 g
- Cholesterol: 166.0 mg
- Sodium: 195.0 mg
- Total Carbs: 99.0 g
- Dietary Fiber: 11.5 g
- Protein: 49.9 g
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