🍗 Chicken Madfoon

Name: Chicken Madfoon
Total time: 120 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Saudi Arabia · Southwest Arabia
Ingredients: 1 whole chicken (about 1.2 kg), quartered; 400 g basmati rice, soaked; 2 onions, sliced; 4 garlic cloves, crushed; 1 tsp ground cardamom; 1 cinnamon stick; 2 black limes, pierced; 2 tbsp oil; Salt and black pepper

Origin: Saudi Arabia · Southwest Arabia

728kcal

per serving · 400 g

182kcal

per 100 g

52 gProtein13 g / 100 g

24 gFat6 g / 100 g

76 gCarbs19 g / 100 g

Chicken madfoon is a Saudi and Yemeni rice dish in which spiced chicken is sealed and slow-cooked over rice, so the juices drip down and flavour the grains. The chicken is seasoned with garlic, cardamom, cinnamon and black lime, and the rice is cooked with onion. The meat comes out very tender and is served on a large tray over the aromatic rice.

Diets

✓

No porkfor halal, the meat must be halal-slaughtered

✓

Gluten-freeno wheat, barley or rye in a typical recipe

✓

Dairy-freeno milk, cheese, butter or yogurt in a typical recipe

✓

High protein13 g protein per 100 g — 29% of the calories

Not vegetarianbecause of: chicken

Not veganbecause of: chicken

Not keto19 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

None of the 14 major allergens in a typical recipe.

What it is made of

chickenriceoniongarliccardamomcinnamondried black lime

Recipe

4 servings120 min

Ingredients

1 whole chicken (about 1.2 kg), quartered
400 g basmati rice, soaked
2 onions, sliced
4 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tsp ground cardamom
1 cinnamon stick
2 black limes, pierced
2 tbsp oil
Salt and black pepper

Method

Rub the chicken with garlic, cardamom, salt, pepper and 1 tbsp oil; leave for 30 minutes.
Fry the onions in the remaining oil, add the cinnamon, black limes and 800 ml water and bring to a boil.
Add the rice, cook for 5 minutes and transfer to a deep roasting tray.
Place the chicken on a rack over the rice, seal the tray tightly with foil.
Cook at 170 °C for about 1.5 hours until the chicken is tender and the rice has absorbed the juices.

How to make it lighter

Remove the chicken skin before serving to cut fat noticeably.
Serve a palm-sized portion of rice and fill half the plate with salad.
Use 1 tbsp oil instead of two: 1 tbsp oil ≈ 120 kcal.

History

Madfoon means 'buried' in Arabic, after the traditional method of cooking meat in a sealed pit or underground oven. Today it is widely cooked in home ovens and restaurants across Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →