Chicken Machboos (Bahraini Spiced Chicken and Rice)
Written on 25 March, 2013 by Kimberly @ The Daring Gourmet
Machboos ala ajaj Bahrain chicken and rice
Chicken Machboos, or Machboos ala Dajaj (“spiced chicken and rice”), is the national dish of Bahrain, a small island country in the Persian Gulf neighbored by Saudi Arabia and Iran. Machboos is similar to Biryani (from the Indian subcontinent) and Kabsa (from Saudi Arabia), all with varying cooking methods, ingredients, degree of spiciness, and assembly. But all three are essentially meat and rice dishes.