Chicken Pulao

Chicken Pulao

Ingredients

Basmati Rice (basmati  Chawal) 2 cups
Chicken small pieces 250 gm
Caraway seeds (shahi jeera) 1 tea spoon
Cloves (laung) 2-3 Pieces
Green cardamom (chhoti elaichi) 2
Cinnamon (dalchini) 1”
Mace (javitri) ½ tea spoon
Black pepper corns (kali mirch) 5-6 pieced
Red chilli powder  (lal mirch) 1 tea spoon
Black pepper (kali mirch) ½ tea spoon
Coriander powder (dhaniya) 1 tea spoon
Garlic (lahsan) crushed 2 table spoons
Ginger ( adrakh) chopped 1 table spoon
Onion (payaj) chopped 1 cup
Coriander leaves (hara dhaniya) chopped 3-4 table spoon
Curd (dahi) ½ cup
Raisins (Kismish) 5-6 Pieces
Cashew nuts ( Kaju) 8-10 Pieces
Salt  (namak) as per taste
Clarified butter (ghee) 3-4 table spoon
Cooking oil 1 table spoon

Instructions

  1. Clean and wash rice properly and soak it in some water for 20 minutes.
  2. Deep fry raisins and cashew nuts in oil and keep aside.
  3. Take ½ cup of yogurt and add salt, red chilly powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder and black pepper powder. Whisk the yogurt nicely and keep it aside.
  4. Heat ghee in a pan, add caraway seeds, cardamom, cinnamon, pepper corns, cloves and mace and cook it for 30 seconds.
  5. Then add onion, garlic, ginger and green chilies and cook it till onion becomes brown in colour.
  6. Once it is done, add the whisked yogurt mixture and cook it for sometimes or till oil gets separated.
  7. Now add the chicken pieces and add some salt at this stage. Cook it for sometimes.
  8. Once chicken is cooked add rice and 2 cups of water and let it cook for some times. Rice should be cooked properly at this stage only.
  9. Stir it gently to avoid breakage of rice.
  10. Once the rice is cooked, mix the fried dry fruits and coriander leaves and serve hot

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