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Chicken

Pot-Browned Meat

Meat or chicken pieces browned in a pot over fried onion, with spices, and usually simmered in water until tender; the stock stays in the pot, and the rice later cooks in it (kabsa, mandi, kidra, plov).

⏱ 42 min🧩 2 parts
🥩 Meat🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Fried onion

  1. 1
    Heat the olive oil in a wide pan over medium heat.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
  2. 2
    Add the onion and fry 5–8 minutes, stirring now and then, until the onion is soft and translucent and starts to turn golden at the edges. If it browns too fast, lower the heat.
    ⚙ Adding to the hot fat and fryingStove
    💡Add by cooking time: what needs long (onion, carrot, meat) goes in first, and what burns fast (garlic, dry spices) goes in last, only until fragrant.

To assemble

  1. 3
    Add the chicken and brown on all sides.
    Stove
  2. 4
    Add the salt and black pepper and stir.
    Stove
  3. 5
    Add the water and bring to a boil. Turn down to low, cover and simmer 30 minutes, until the chicken softens.
    ⚙ SimmeringStoveLid
    💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
108calories
7 gprotein
2 gcarbs
8 gfat
● protein 26%● carbs 9%● fat 66%

Per serving (248 g), of 4 servings

For the Fried onion · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (3) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)
  • Lid · Also works: Aluminum foil (tight aluminum foil) · Plate (an upside-down plate)

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🧩 Parts

⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Browning time (about 5 minutes) · carrot · Tomatoes · Turmeric · Cumin · Paprika · Baharat · Cardamom · Cinnamon · Ras el hanout · Cinnamon stick · Cloves · Bay leaves · Whole head of garlic · Water for cooking the meat · Simmering the meat in water (minutes) (30) · Tomato paste · Garlic cloves with the spices · Ginger · Coriander seeds · Meat browned first in oil and removed, onion after it
  • Name of the meat in the steps: the chicken
  • Carrot frying time (minutes): 5
  • Cooking time unit: minutes
  • Doneness cue: softens

🔗 Used in

Ground beef fried with onion · Tomato sauce · Red Shakshuka · Green Shakshuka · White Shakshuka · Sautéed mushrooms · Warm Ful · Cooked rice · Meatball mix · Cheese Filling · Cream soup · Legume Salad and 48

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