Chicken Aqda with Rice

Chicken Aqda with Rice is a Yemeni dish normally served in most Arabic restaurants in Malaysia.

The Chicken Aqda is delicious and served hot. The taste is very good, and looks very big in

serving size but once started to eat you cannot stop.

The below photo is the  Chicken Aqda with rice which I enjoyed at Bamboo Rice and Bbq Restaurant, Shaftsbury Square, Cyberjaya.

Price: RM 15.

Address:
Shaftsbury Square, Persiaran Multimedia, Cyber 6, 63000 Cyberjaya, Selangor

The Chicken Aqda ingredients are:

1) half a pound of beef/chicken cut into medium sized chunks 

2) one big onion  

3) a small tomato diced 

4)  1 tablespoon of minced garlic 

5) 1 tablespoon minced ginger 

6) 4 tablespoons of olive oil 

7) 1  green chillie quartered lengthwise 

8) 1\2 tsp of chillie powder

9) 1 tsp of ground cumin 

10) 1 tsp of ground coriander 

11) 1/2 tsp of turmeric 

12) 1/2 tsp of peppercorns 

13) 3-4 cloves of cardamon 

14) 5-6 whole cloves 

15) a pinch of ground cloves 

16) 1/8 tsp of ground cardamon

17) potatoes (optional)