How to Prepare Perfect Fish Machboos

How to Prepare Perfect Fish Machboos Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Fish Machboos. First, let's talk about "machboos" : it literally translates to compressed, as everything is compressed by the rice and fish! This could be prepared by any meat you like, today I'm doing it with fish! Machboos is a dish which can be prepared with chicken or fish or mutton.

You can serve Fish Machboos topped with nuts and fried onions and a side of Salata Hara (a spicy tomato crush), it goes well with this rice.

Salata Hara (Arabic style tomato crush/salsa) Fish Machboos / Kabsa.

Arabic Rice is also known as Kubsa or Machboos.

You can have Fish Machboos using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Fish Machboos

1. It’s 1-2 of King Fish steak.

2. It’s 1 cup of basmati rice, soaked for 30 minutes.

3. It’s 3 tbsp. of oil.

4. Prepare 1" of cinnamon.

5. Prepare 2-3 of green cardamoms.

6. It’s 4-5 of cloves.

7. You need 1 of onion, chopped.

8. Prepare 1 tsp. of ginger-garlic paste.

9. Prepare 1/2 tsp. of turmeric powder.

10. Prepare 1+1 tsp of Arabic spice.

11. Prepare 1/2 tsp. of cardamom powder.

12. You need 2 of dry lime.

13. Prepare 2 of green chilies.

14. It’s to taste of salt.

15. You need 1 tbsp. of coriander leaves, chopped.

16. You need 2 tbsp. of fried onion.

17. It’s 2 tsp. of ghee.

The one with chicken is always a hit at home.

I love it since the preparation time is less and recipe is easy to follow.

This is the traditional dish of Arabs and they add lots of raisins and nuts like almonds , pine nuts in this.

Today lets see how to make Fish Machboos / Majboos.

Fish Machboos instructions

1. Apply 1 tsp. of the Arabic spice and salt to taste to the fish steak and marinate for 10-15 minutes. Heat 1 tbsp. oil in a pan and fry the fish till well done on both sides. Drain and keep aside..

2. Heat remaining oil & temper with cardamoms, cinnamon and cloves. Add the onion and saute till it turns slightly brown..

3. Add all the dry spices & ginger-garlic paste mixed with some water. Saute till the oil separates..

4. Add the soaked rice, green chilies & the dry lime. Mix everything well and saute for 2 minutes..

5. Add 1 1/2 cups hot water & pressure cook for 2 whistles. Switch off the flame and let it cool down..

6. Add the ghee and fluff it up with a fork..

7. Transfer to a serving plate and arrange the fried fish on top. Garnish with coriander leaves and fried onion. Enjoy as it is or with some side dish..

Machboos is a dish which is prepared with chicken, fish and mutton.

Here am sharing the recipe of Fish majboos.

Majboos is the national dish of Bahrain and so it is called as Bahraini dish.

It is very similar to Biryani ( Indian) and Kabsa ( Soudi Arabia).

First, let's talk about machboos : it literally translates to compressed, as everything is compressed by the rice and fish!