# One pan meal Kabsa

This is a one-pan Kabsa dish, a traditional meal from Yemen and Saudi Arabia, featuring tender meat and flavorful rice.

- Cuisine: Indian
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 0.25 cup avocado oil
- 2 onions
- 2 pounds lamb or beef
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 4 cardamoms
- 1 tablespoon grated garlic
- 2 teaspoons grated ginger
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste or pepper paste
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp coriander
- 1 tsp cumin
- 0.5 tsp black pepper
- 0.5 tsp black cardamom
- 0.25 tsp ground clove
- 0.25 tsp ground ginger
- 0.25 tsp ground fennel seeds
- 0.25 tsp ground cinnamon
- to taste salt
- 6 cups water
- 2 chopped potatoes
- 0.5 bunch cilantro
- 3 cups rice
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 Thai chili pepper
- 1 tomato
- 0.25 bunch parsley

## Instructions

1. Add about a fourth cup of avocado oil to a pot.
2. Add two finely chopped onions to the pot.
3. Sauté the onions until they turn a nice golden color.
4. Add two pounds of lamb or beef to the pot, aiming for a light char on both sides.
5. Add one cinnamon stick, four cardamoms, one tablespoon of grated garlic, two teaspoons of grated ginger, and two tablespoons of tomato paste or pepper paste to the meat.
6. Cook down the tomato paste and add all the listed spices: 1 tsp chili powder, 1 tsp coriander, 1 tsp cumin, 1/2 tsp black pepper, 1/2 tsp black cardamom, 1/4 tsp ground clove, 1/4 tsp ground ginger, 1/4 tsp ground fennel seeds, 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon, and salt to taste.
7. Continue mixing for about a minute.
8. Add six cups of water to the mixture.
9. Cover the pot and cook on medium heat for two hours until the meat is fully cooked.
10. After two hours, add two chopped potatoes, half a bunch of cilantro, two Thai chili peppers, and three cups of rice to the pot.
11. Add about six cups of water to the pot for the rice.
12. Cover the pot again and cook on medium heat for 20 minutes, then on low heat for another 20 minutes.
13. Prepare the salsa by adding two garlic cloves, one Thai chili pepper, one tomato, and one fourth bunch of parsley to a blender.
14. Add a dash of salt to the blender.
15. Blend the salsa ingredients together until combined.
16. Garnish the Kabsa with cilantro and serve with the prepared salsa.

## Equipment

- pot
- tongs
- wooden spoon
- lid
- blender

## Tips

- You can garnish with whatever you like. My personal favorite is some cilantro and some Yemeni salsa we call sahawat. Super simple to make.
- If you have a pressure cooker, you can use 4 cups of water instead of 6 cups, and pressure cook it to save time.
- For the three cups of rice, you're going to want to have about 6 cups of water.
- You can use either lamb or beef for this dish, the cook's personal favorite is beef

## Source

- Original video: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSB8EYPJq/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/1d1e31bf-1bcd-4628-b2b2-2150d0acdee3
- Extracted: 2025-06-29

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