Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, prawn maqlooba. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
A traditional Saudi delicacy which is served during weddings and ceremonies. Maqlooba , in Arabic means upside down. Maqlooba is a upside down rice cake carrying all the goodness of prawns , veggies and the finest flavours of spices used. #nonv #oniontomato This authentic traditional Arabic recipe consists of chicken, cauliflower, and potato. Serve with plain yogurt and a salad to mix with the rice dish.
Prawn Maqlooba is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Prawn Maqlooba is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook prawn maqlooba using 37 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Prawn Maqlooba:
- Take For marination:
- Make ready 1/2 kg Prawn cleaned, deveined
- Take 1 tablespoon Lemon juice
- Get 3/4 teaspoon Salt
- Prepare 1/2 tablespoon Paprika powder
- Get 1 tablespoon Garlic crushed finely
- Take For Arabic spice powder (Dry roasting ingredients) :
- Make ready 3 Cinnamon small stick
- Prepare 4 Dried red chillies long
- Take 9 Black whole Pepper
- Make ready 1 teaspoon Nutmeg
- Take 1 Tablespoon Coriander seeds
- Make ready 4 Green Cardamom
- Get 2 Stone flower large
- Get For the prawn head broth :
- Take 10 Prawn heads
- Get 4 cups Water
- Take 1 teaspoon Turmeric powder
- Make ready 1.5 tablespoons Crushed Garlic
- Make ready For frying :
- Make ready 1 Potato medium thinly sliced
- Make ready A big pinch Salt for potato
- Take 1 Carrot medium sliced
- Take 1 Green Bell Pepper medium cut into long pieces
- Make ready 4 tablespoons Oil
- Prepare 4 tablespoons Ghee
- Make ready For prawn broth Rice :
- Make ready As needed Basmati Rice washed, soaked for 20 minutes
- Get 4 tablespoons Oil
- Get 2 Star Anise large
- Get 7 to 9 Cloves
- Get 1 Onion medium sized sliced
- Make ready 3 Tomatoes big red and ripe puréed into a thick purée
- Make ready 3 teaspoons or as preferred Salt
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Ghee
- Prepare 2.5 cups Filtered prawn broth
- Take As required Cilantros chopped for garnishing
Bring to a boil the water, onion, garlic, cinnamon, turmeric, garam masala, salt, and pepper in a large pot. Separate the lamb from the liquid and set aside. Transfer the liquid to a bowl. Once browned, add nutmeg, allspice, cumin powder, salt, saffron, cinnamon sticks, cardamom seeds, and.
Steps to make Prawn Maqlooba:
- In low, Dry roast dried red chillies, coriander seeds,nutmeg stoneflower,cardamom,Cinnamon, black pepper.Cool and grind to a smooth powder. Keep aside.
- Marinate prawns in fresh lime juice, crushed garlic, salt.
- Add paprika powder.
- Mix all together and marinate for 15 minutes
- Boil water in a wok. Add the cleaned prawn heads, crushed garlic. Add turmeric powder.
- Cover and boil prawn heads for 15 minutes until aromat broth is ready.
- Meantime, heat oil, ghee in a pan. Slice medium sized potato.
- Drop the potato slices in the hot ghee oil and fry both sides until golden and crisp. Add a big pinch of salt while potatoes are getting fried. Remove the fried golden slices. Slice medium carrot. Fry them in the same oil until crunchy.
- By now, aromatic prawns head broth is ready. Switch off the heat.
- Take out the fried carrots and keep aside. Next add 1 medium sized green bell pepper that is cut into long pieces. Fry until crunchy.
- Next fry the marinated prawns in low heat until golden brown.
- In between, strain the prawn head broth. Measure 2.5 cups broth for 3 cups Basmati rice. Keep aside. - Heat oil in a wide pan. Add large star anise, medium sized onion sliced. Sauté until pink. Add cloves and toss in the oil.
- Pour the fresh tomato purée. Used big ripe tomatoes for the purée. Cook in high for 3 minutes.
- Add the powdered spice powder. Add required salt.
- When purée reaches a thick saucy state, add in the drained basmati rice. rice used.
- Toss gently and allow to roast for 3 minutes in low heat. Smear tablespoon ghee.
- After roasting the rice gently, now pour the measured hot prawn head broth. Simmer the flame. Give a gentle mix thoroughly. Cover the pan tightly and slow cook for 12 mins.
- After 12 minutes, remove the lid. Our rice is cooked. Leave it open.
- The other hand, take a cake tin / a round container. Arrange all the fried veggies as first layer. Then insert few fried prawns here and there. Sprinkle chopped cilantros.
- Coming to our rice, Add the remaining fried prawns to the cooked rice. Toss the rice gently.
- Now fill the cake tin with the prepared prawn rice. Spread rice on top of the arranged ingredients. Press, level the surface of the tightly packed hot rice. Cover and keep for 5 minutes.
- Then tilt the tin on a plate. Be gentle. Pull up the tin and there you could see our upside down Arabic rice is ready.
- Prawn Maqlooba, a delicacy from Saudi is ready. Serve hot with Laban.
Transfer the liquid to a bowl. Once browned, add nutmeg, allspice, cumin powder, salt, saffron, cinnamon sticks, cardamom seeds, and. Place the prawn shells and heads in a pot and add the stock, bay leaves, peppercorns, salt, lemon peel and garlic. Note: Prawns also have side effects just like any other seafood. they contain mercury and can cause allergies. Contact your primary care physician before consuming them.
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