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Cooking the most popular Arabian meat and rice recipe! EASY and DELICIOUS Makloba!

Cooking the most popular Arabian meat and rice recipe! EASY and DELICIOUS Makloba!

Step by step instructions for cooking the recipe

In a pot add a little bit cooking oil

Cinnamon sticks

Bay leaves

One tsp each of cardamom, cloves, coriander seeds, and black pepper 

Chopped onions (150 grams)

Cook everything over medium heat until the onion is caramelized

Then, add one kilogram lamb meat (1000 grams) with the bones

Add salt taste and half a tsp turmeric, and mix them with the meat

Then cover the meat with water and let it cook on medium heat for one and a half hours


Wash three cups of long grain basmati rice and soak it in water for 20 minutes

While the meat is cooking start the rice is soaking, start preparing the fried vegetables

Fry 4 potatoes, about (600 grams)

Fry 2 eggplants, about (600 grams)

Fry two onions, about (300 grams)

Once the one hour and a half has past, take the meat out of the pot and strain the broth

Put a piece of parchment paper on the bottom of the pot

Add the meat first

Then add the potatoes

Then the eggplant

Add the fried onions

Drain the water from the rice and pour and mix it with the following spices:

A half of a tsp each of cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, black pepper, and turmeric

One and half of a tsp of salt

Add the broth

Cook on high heat until the amount of water decreases

Then, over low heat for 30 minutes

Take it out of the stove top and flip it onto a serving tray

Let it sit for 5 minutes before slowly removing the pot

Garnish with coriander 

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