Spicy Chicken Rice

Delicious rice with sweet spices plus cardamom and all spice. This recipe shows how to make a spice mix and a yummy rice for the chicken. Here is this juice picnic recipe.

Spice Mix:

• ½ teaspoon saffron
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon ground allspice
• ½ teaspoon dried whole lime powder
• ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
• ¼ teaspoon ground white pepper

Rice:

• ¼ cup butter

• 1 onion, finely chopped 

• 6 cloves garlic, minced

• 1 (3 pound) whole chicken, cut into 8 pieces

• ¼ cup tomato puree

• 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained

• 3 carrots, peeled and grated

• 2 whole cloves

• 1 pinch ground nutmeg

• 1 pinch ground cumin

• 1 pinch ground coriander

• salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

• 3 ¼ cups hot water, plus more if needed

• 1 cube chicken bouillon

• 2 ¼ cups unrinsed basmati rice

• ¼ cup raisins

• ¼ cup toasted slivered almonds

• Step 1 – Make spice mix: Stir together saffron, cinnamon, allspice, lime powder, cardamom, and white pepper in a small bowl; set aside.
• Step 2 – Make rice: Melt butter in a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and garlic in butter until onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes. Add chicken and cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned, about ten minutes. Mix in tomato purée.
• Step 3 – Stir in canned tomatoes with juice, carrots, cloves, nutmeg, cumin, coriander, salt, black pepper, and reserved spice mix. Cook for about 3 minutes; pour in water and add chicken bouillon cube.
• Step 4 – Bring sauce to a boil, then reduce heat, and cover the pot. Simmer until chicken is no longer pink and the juices run clear, about 30 minutes.
• Step 5 – Gently stir in rice. Cover the pot and simmer until rice is tender and almost dry, about 25 minutes; add raisins and a little more hot water, if necessary. Cover and cook until rice grains separate, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Step 6 – Transfer rice to a large serving platter and arrange chicken on top. Sprinkle with toasted slivered almonds.
• Picnic Ready!

Super yummy chicken and rice picnic!