Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, prawn maqlooba. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Prawn Maqlooba is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Prawn Maqlooba is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have prawn maqlooba using 37 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Prawn Maqlooba:
- Take For marination:
- Get 1/2 kg Prawn cleaned, deveined
- Get 1 tablespoon Lemon juice
- Make ready 3/4 teaspoon Salt
- Get 1/2 tablespoon Paprika powder
- Get 1 tablespoon Garlic crushed finely
- Get For Arabic spice powder (Dry roasting ingredients) :
- Make ready 3 Cinnamon small stick
- Make ready 4 Dried red chillies long
- Take 9 Black whole Pepper
- Take 1 teaspoon Nutmeg
- Make ready 1 Tablespoon Coriander seeds
- Take 4 Green Cardamom
- Make ready 2 Stone flower large
- Get For the prawn head broth :
- Prepare 10 Prawn heads
- Take 4 cups Water
- Get 1 teaspoon Turmeric powder
- Take 1.5 tablespoons Crushed Garlic
- Make ready For frying :
- Make ready 1 Potato medium thinly sliced
- Prepare A big pinch Salt for potato
- Prepare 1 Carrot medium sliced
- Take 1 Green Bell Pepper medium cut into long pieces
- Take 4 tablespoons Oil
- Prepare 4 tablespoons Ghee
- Prepare For prawn broth Rice :
- Make ready As needed Basmati Rice washed, soaked for 20 minutes
- Make ready 4 tablespoons Oil
- Make ready 2 Star Anise large
- Get 7 to 9 Cloves
- Take 1 Onion medium sized sliced
- Make ready 3 Tomatoes big red and ripe puréed into a thick purée
- Get 3 teaspoons or as preferred Salt
- Take 1 tablespoon Ghee
- Prepare 2.5 cups Filtered prawn broth
- Make ready As required Cilantros chopped for garnishing
Instructions 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.
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