Saudi Arabia recipes
Recipes from Saudi Arabia: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
Jareesh: Saudi Arabia's National Cracked-Wheat Porridge
How to make jareesh, Saudi Arabia's national dish: cracked wheat, chicken, yogurt, and ghee. Simmering without lumps, splitting, or scorching; regional differences, storage, how it differs from kabsa and harees, and how Saudi families serve it, down to reheating the next day.
Kabsa Recipe: Saudi Arabia's Fragrant Chicken and Rice
How to make kabsa as a Saudi home dish. Basmati rice, chicken, loomi, and kabsa spices in a home kitchen, why rice turns sticky, daqoos sauce, storage and reheating, how it differs from machboos and biryani, a weekend menu, and what to buy first.
Saleeg: Saudi Hejazi Chicken Broth and Milk-Simmered Rice
A recipe for saleeg, a home dish from Hejaz in western Saudi Arabia: rice simmered in chicken broth scented with cardamom and mastic, finished creamy with milk, drizzled with ghee, and topped with roasted chicken. Includes its meaning as a dish for guests, its tie to Taif, how it differs from risotto, and the tomato relish duggus.