Chicken Kabsa

Ingredients

• Chicken     -   1 whole (Cut into 4 equal pieces)
• Ginger garlic paste    -  1 tbsp
• Lemon juice     -  1 lemon
• Fennel seeds     - 1 tsp (ground)
• Tomato    -   4 medium
• Garlic     -  5-7 cloves
• Onion      -  2 roughly diced
• Oil   -1 cup (preferably olive oil)
• Sella basmati rice   -  1 kg ( If not available, can use other basmati rice also )
• Dry spices    - ( coriander seeds -1/2 tsp, cumin seeds -1/4 tsp, black pepper- 1/2 tsp, cloves - 3, cardamom- 3, cinnamon stick- 1, red chilly- 1 tsp )
• Salt  -   to taste

Method

Soak rice in water. Clean, wash and drain the chicken. In a large pan, add oil (preferably olive oil) and splutter the dry spices. Saute onion, add chicken and salt. Keep on medium flame. Make a tomato puree using tomatoes, garlic, green chilly and a small piece of shallot(optional). Pour in and bring to boil. Remove the chicken from the pan after a nice boil. Add more water for boiling, in the pan  (1 1/2 cup of water for 1 cup of rice ). Add more salt, drain rice and keep on medium flame with closed lid and allow to cook. Marinate the drained chicken with ginger garlic paste, red chilly powder, fennel powder and fry in the oil. Keep over the cooked kabsa and decorate with french fries on top. Delicious arabic kabsa is ready to be served.