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Kabsa is one of the traditional foods in Syria. Most of the people there like it. You can make it at home. Also, you can order it at the restaurants. There are a lot of restaurants in Syria that make it different ways. There are three steps for making Kabsa: finding the ingredients, cooking the dish, and eating it.

First of all, there are a lot of types of Kabsa in Syria. It is different from area to area. The ingredients are different depending on which type of Kabsa you will make. The basic ingredients are rice, five cups of water, half an onion sliced, three cloves of garlic chopped, three tomatoes, one spoon of tomato sauce, one kilogram of lamb, chicken or beef, cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper, dry black lemon, dry coriander, a small cup of oil, and salt. I prefer to use spices from Syria.

After you got the ingredients, you cook the dish. First, put the onion and the oil in a pressure cooker on medium heat then stir until tender. After that, add the meat to the onion and stir. Then cut the tomatoes into small pieces and put them in the pot with one small spoon of tomato sauce. Add the rice and water then add the spices from Syria. Put the top on the pressure cooker and lock it. You must wait 30 minutes before it will be done.

Finally, there are a lot of ways to eat it. Some families eat it on the floor, some on the table, and in the weddings they do it both ways so everybody can be comfortable while they are eating. However, the traditional way was that they eat it on the floor.

In conclusion, Kabsa is my favorite Syrian food, because it tastes really delicious and my family likes it too. I enjoy making it a lot, because I get to design the dish however I want, especially when I have a friends and family gathering.