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Savory Madroba: A Culinary Adventure


Category: Main Dish - (873)
Origin: Qatar
Source: Maryam Alsayed


Madroba is a spicy porridge dish consisting of chicken and wheat, seasoned with warm and comforting spices such as cumin, turmeric, cloves, and cinnamon. This dish is eaten during Ramadan and is known to have many variations, with every household having its own take on the recipe.

Ingredients:
- 320g (11.25 oz) Wheat
- 125ml (4.2 oz) Olive Oil
- 4 Bay Laurel Leaves
- 8 Pieces Clove
- 1 Cinnamon Stick
- 15g Cardamom
- 2 Chopped Onions
- 4 Pieces Chopped Chili Pepper
- 3 Crushed Clove Garlic
- 1 Piece Crushed Ginger
- 1 Tomato Paste
- 1.5kg (52.9 oz) Chicken Pieces
- 96g (3.38 oz) Chopped Parsley
- 96g (3.38 oz) Green Coriander
- 15g Dry Coriander
- 15g Turmeric
- 15g Cumin
- 15g Black Pepper
- 2 Black Lemons
- 3 Chopped Tomatoes
- 1L (33.8 oz) Boiled Water
- 30g Salt
Preparation:
- Before everything, clean the wheat and have it soak in water for 4 hours and leave it on the side.
- Turn on your oven on a medium heat and in a big cooking pot put the olive oil then add to it the right spices (cardamom, cinnamon, bay laurel leaves, and clove.)
- Next, add the chopped onions and chili pepper and stir everything together for a little while.
- After that, add the crushed garlic.
- Add the tomato paste to the stir, keep stirring!
- Then, add the chicken pieces and follow it with the crushed ginger. Ginger helps to eliminate the smell of the chicken.
- Add the chopped parsley, green coriander, dry coriander, turmeric, cumin, and black pepper. Keep stirring until the chicken becomes roasted and borrows the scent of the onion and spices.
- Pinch your black lemons then add them to the pot, this helps the lemon taste come out.
- Add the chopped tomatoes.
- Add boiling water.
- Now add salt, did you forget about it?
- Close your pot and leave everything to cook together for 30–45 minutes.
- Afterwards, filter the wheat from the water that it was soaked in and add it to the mixture in the pot.
- Add a pinch of yellow lemon.
- Last but not least, lower the heat of the oven and let it cook for 1 hour.
- Now you can serve the Madrouba! Bel afiya!

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