maqluba - upside down rice

Maqluba - upside down rice, but mine might probably dont look like the real maqluba though, anyway i still enjoyed it so much ^^

so the ingredients are.

potatoes and eggplant - i peeled the skins and fried them.

next, wash 3 cups of basmati rice, place water over and let it expand. prepare the soup and meat ( I use meat (beef), you can always use chicken).

boil the slices of meat.

 spices i used for the soup- clockwise: cinnamon stick, cardamom, clove, star anise, soup spices -wrapped in the white cloth (im not pretty sure what's inside, it came like that but i guess the ingredients could be just the same as the powder one), soup powder and onion.


1. heat some oil and fry the dried spices followed by the onion and soup powder.
2. pour them into the meat stock, make sure there is no more meat left in the stock.
3. add the soup spice (one wrapped in the white cloth) and some salt.
4. done.


now prepare the meat.

these are the meats boiled which the stock used for the soup.

1. spread some all spices and paprika over the meats and mix them. just to marinate them for some time.

2. prepare the spices to fry the meats.

 clockwise: cinnamon stick, star anise, cloves, black pepper, cardamom.


1. heat the corn oil ( i didnt find the olive oil)
2, fry the dried spices.
3. add some slices of tomatoes (i forgot to buy the tomato puree)
4. pour the marinated meats
five. add some sugar, salt and tamarind.

  when it's ready, it's going to look like this.

so, once you've done preparing all the eggplant, potatoes, rice, meat and soup, what you have to do are these.

1st layer:  pour the potatoes followed by the eggplant, the potatoes should fill the bottom pot, unfortunately my pot is too big and it made all the potatoes and eggplants mix. huhuh

2nd layer: the rice. 

3rd layer: the meat

 4th layer: the soup

 then let it simmer til cook.

done! :)

so alhamdulillah, it turned out well for me and i like it. and i would like to say thank you so much to kak mushi for introducing me the recipe :)

and i have it with chicken kurma and salata hara.