Chicken With Milk And Rice - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 chickens, cut up
3 c. rice
2 c. milk
3 pieces mastica (Arabic gum) for the broth
2 pieces mastica for the butter
1 c. cream
10 cardamon seed
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 c. butter
12 c. water

Preparation

Wash the chicken pieces.
Place them with the water in a saucepan and boil; add the cardamon seed, mastica and salt.
Cook for 1 hour.
Remove chicken pieces and set aside.
Strain broth and place in the saucepan with the rice; allow to boil, then simmer.
Add the cream to the milk; mix well.
When the rice is cooked, add the milk mixture, gently stirring.
Heat the butter and stir in the 2 pieces of mastica.
When melted, pour immediately over the rice and cover for 5 minutes.
Stir the rice mixture and serve in a platter with the chicken pieces on top.