Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Kabli Pulao



Ingredients

 

4 cup rice
2 lbs chicken or mutton
2 chopped onions
vegetable oil
1tsp pepper
3 medium carrots, cut in 3" sticks
1/2 cups raisins
1/2 tsp cardmom
1/2 tsp cumin
4 cups water
salt



Method

Fry onion in the oil until brown.
Add meat and stir well cook for ten minutes.
Add water, salt and pepper. Cover and cook until meat is tender.
Bring 6 cups of water to boil. Then put rice in it and cook for 5 minutes.
Remove rice from heater.
Combine the meat sauce, raisins, carrots, cardamom, cumin and rice.
Put the mixture in the oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes and Kabli Pulao is ready.

Tuesday, 11 March 2014 by dfs · 0

Baked Chicken Pistachio Rice


Ingredients

 

250 gms rice cooked in salt water
50 gms pistachio paste
1 cup chicken, boiled and shredded
2-3 tbsp butter
2 cups spring onion chopped
1 tbsp flour
1 cup milk
1/2 cup chicken stock
3-4 chillies, chopped
Salt and pepper to taste
1/2 tsp ajinomoto
Carrots for garnishing
Few pistachios chopped


Method

 

Heat butter and saute 1 cup onion.

Add chicken and cook for 2 minutes.

Add flour, saute till light brown.

Add the pistachio paste, saute for 1 minute.

Gradually add milk, stock, chillies and 1/2 cup spring onion. Cook for 2-3 minutes season with salt, pepper and ajinomoto and remove from fire.
 
Fry remaining spring onions in oil, add rice and remove from fire.

Grease an oven proof dish, spread half the rice, spread the sauce over it and cover with remaining rice.
 
Sprinkle some chopped pistachio on the rice and knobs of butter. Bake for 10 minutes.

Decorate with carrot petals.

by dfs · 0

Shahi Chicken Biryani


Ingredients

6 cups Rice (basmati)
1 kg Chicken
3 tbsps. Vegetable Oil
3 tbsps. Clarified Butter
5 nos. Onion (red, thin sliced)
3 nos. Potato (peeled and cut)
30 gms. Ginger (paste)
30 gms. Garlic (paste)
5 nos. Green Chillies (paste)
10 gms. Coriander leaves (paste)
2 tsps. Curry Powder
4 tbsps. Yoghurt
4 tbsps. Tomato (Puree/paste)
3 tbsps. Red Chilli Powder
2 tsps. Turmeric Powder
1 pinch Saffron
Salt to taste
3 tsps. Milk

2-3 drops Color (orange recommended)


Method


Marinate the chicken with garlic, ginger, coriander, green chilli, tomato paste, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, dry garam masala powder, salt and yoghurt and keep it aside for half an hour.

Cook rice separately (Keep it semi-cooked), add salt, sprinkle it with colour and keep aside.

Heat milk, put pinch of kesar and keep aside.

Heat 2 tbsp of oil in pan. Deep fry half the quantity of onions and all the potatoes till onion is golden brown. Remove both from the pan and keep aside.

Fry the remaining onion in the same oil till slight golden brown and put the marinated chicken cook for 10 minutes.

Take a separate utensil, put ghee and 1 tbsp of oil, half quantity of semi-cooked rice, all fried potatoes and half quantity of fried onions and milk of kesar. Put the cooked
chicken on top of it and then cover it with the remaining semi-cooked rice.

Garnish with coriander leaves and rest of the fried onions.

Tightly cover the utensil and cook for another 10 minutes.

by dfs · 0

Chicken Biriyani

Ingredients

1/4 kg Chicken
1 cup Basmati rice
11/2 Water
1 cup Onion (thinly chopped)
3/4 cup Tomato (finely chopped)
2 inch Ginger
8 Garlic cloves
2 Green chillies
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
2 tsp Oil
2 tsp Ghee or dalda
2 tbsp Curd
1 tsp Red chilli powder
1 tsp Anise seeds
1 Cinnamon stick (small)
3 Cloves
Kesari powder a pinch
1/4 tsp Garam masala powder
1/4 cup Mint leaves
4 tbsp Coriander leaves(finely chopped)

Salt to taste


Method

Clean the chicken and cut into medium-sized pieces.

Grind the ginger, garlic and anise seeds into a fine paste.

Add oil in the pressure cooker and heat it.

Add cinnamon stick, cloves and fry it for a few seconds.

Add ginger-garlic paste, mint leaves, coriander leaves, onion and tomato and fry it well.

Add the chicken and fry it for a minute.

Then add turmeric powder, chilli powder, 11/2 cups of water, curd, salt and rice and stir it well.

Close the cooker with the lid and turn the flame to medium high.

Once you get the pressure, put the weight on the cooker and turn the flame to medium low and keep it for 8 minutes.

After 8 minutes remove the cooker from the stove and keep it aside.

After 10 minutes remove the lid and stir the rice well and serve it with onion raita.

by dfs · 0

Chicken Pulao

Ingredients

1/4 kg basmati rice
1/2 chicken
2 onion chopped finely
3 cloves
1" cinnamon
2 black cardamoms
4 bay leaves
4 tbsp ghee
Chopped corriander leaves
Make a paste of:
2 tsp cummin seeds
5 black pepper
7 green chillies
3 garlic flakes
1/2" ginger
1 tbsp corriander seeds
1 tsp red chilli powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
Salt as per taste


Method

Wash the rice and soak it for 1/2 hour. Cut chicken into small pieces. Heat oil in a kadai.

Fry the onions till golden brown. Add the grounded masala and simmer for 2 minutes.

Add cloves, cinnamon, cardamoms, and bay leaves. Fry chicken pieces for 5 minutes.

Add rice to it and add water required to cook the rice. Stir well. Let the chicken and rice cook.


Once done garnish with corriander leaves. Serve hot.

by dfs · 0

Chakunder Chicken Pulao



Ingredients

3 kg Chukander [beetroot] to make yakhni [stock] to give
flavour and dark pink colour to pulao
1-1/2 kg Chicken
2 cups Rice
1 big Onion
8 Cloves
6 Cinnamon sticks - 4 cm lenght each
8 blades Javitri [mace]
3 tbsp Oil
2-1/2 tsp Salt


Method

Peel and wash beetroots, slice them and quarter each slice. Put into pot, pour just enough water to cover the beats, cook under cover 20 min.

Remove beets from the dark pink water and use them in another dish for example; mithe samose stuffed with sweet beetroot halva, or paratha stuffed with beetroot masala, or beetroot curry.

Remove bones from chicken, cut chicken into small pieces, put them into dark pink water, boil under cover 15 min. In another pot fry sliced onion on oil.

Before making pulao of course rice sould be washed and soaked 2 hr in cold water and drained just before using.

Remove chicken from pink water add to onion add masala, salt, measure 3 1/2 cups of the pink water, add and bring to boil. Throw in rice, wait till boils,cover, lower the heat, simmer 20 min. If you dont have 3 1/2 cups pink stock add normal water to the required amount.

by dfs · 0

Chicken Fried Rice



Ingredients

6 cups boiled Basmati rice
1 cup chicken (boiled and shredded)
1/2 cup prawns cooked (if desired, for additional flavour)
1 egg
1/4 cup capsicum cut into fine strips
1 cup regular onion, chopped fine
1 cup spring onions, chopped fine
2 tablespoons of ginger-garlic paste(or to taste)
1 cup of mixed vegetables, i.e. carrots, french beans, cabbage - chopped fine
soya sauce & chilli sauce


Method

Make sure the rice isn't overcooked or mushy.

Add a little oil when boiling so that it doesn't stick together.

Fry the regular onions till light brown.

Add ginger-garlic paste and fry.

Add the rice and fry with soya sauce to taste.

You can add a little chilli sauce if you want.

Separately, lightly fry the pre-cooked meats (chicken and prawns) with a little soya sauce.

Beat the egg thoroughly and fry separately, stirring constantly. Add to the rice.

Separately, lightly fry each vegetable (except the regular onions) and keep aside. Do not over fry or the vegetables will become soggy. They should remain slightly crisp.

Add the meats and vegetables to the rice and mix thoroughly.


Your delicious meal is ready.

by dfs · 0