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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Rest Middle Eastern

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Place the rice in a heatproof bowl and cover with boiling water. Let stand 30 minutes to 1 hour then drain in a fine mesh strainer. | 2. Place the drained rice in a pot with *2 cups* of water and bring to the boil then cover and simmer on low for 10 minutes. | 3. In the meantime, melt 3 tablespoons butter in a small pan and cook the almonds until starting to brown, stirring often. | 4. Stir in the dates, raisins, ground cinnamon or cinnamon stick and cloves. | 5. Turn heat down to low and cook covered for 15 minutes or until the mixture is soft and gooey, stirring often. (Do not overcook or let dry out.). | 6. After the rice has cooked 10 minutes, remove the pot from the burner without taking off the lid and let stand for 15 minutes. | 7. Drain the rice in a strainer under warm water and then place half of the rice back in the pot, flattening and spreading it around evenly. | 8. Dot the first layer of rice with 1 tablespoon of butter. | 9. Now arrange the cooked almond-date mixture over the rice, spreading it around and flattening with a spatula. Spoon the rest of the rice on top, again spreading it around and flattening the top then dot with 1 tablespoons of butter. | 10. Invert a heatproof plate on top of the rice or as I did-fold up a tea towel and place it on top of the pot. Cover the pot with the lid and cook on very low heat for 15 minutes. | 11. After 15 minutes of cooking, remove the pot (but keep the lid on the pot!) to another burner and set aside for another 15 minutes. | 12. Invert the pot of rice onto a serving platter. | 13. Serve hot. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
rice	1	cup	used	678.95	141.0625	13.949000000000002	5.92
water	2 1/4	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
butter	5	tablespoons		427.5	19.6425	13.3575	36.0
almond	1/2	cup	slivered	963.56	0.0	0.0	109.0
date	1/3	cup	cut	138.18	36.7647	1.2005	0.1911
raisin	2	tablespoons		62.2875	16.401	0.6992	0.0949
cinnamon	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
clove	1	pinch	ground	0.3596	0.086	0.0078	0.0171

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.