- 1/2 lb Chicken
- 2 tbsp Ginger Garlic paste
- Cloves 2,Cinnamon 1/2" and Cardamom 3 (dry powder all these three)
- 10 Green chillies slit in center
- 1 1/2 cup Onion thinly sliced
- 1 Tomato large
- 1/2 cup Mint leaves
- 2 tsp Yogurt
- 1/2 cup Coriander chopped
- Salt to taste
- 1/2 cup Oil
- 3 cup Basmati rice
- 2 tsp Lemon juice
- In a pressure cooker add oil, when hot add the dry spice powder,Green chili and onions. Roast well until onions are golden brown.
- Remove little fried onion in to a plate, which we use later.
- Now add the chicken pieces and ginger garlic paste, cover the lid slightly so that the chicken gets sauted with these flavours.
- Now add mint leaves and saute it.
- Add chopped tomatoes, close the lid slightly until the tomatoes are cooked
- Add yogurt, coriander leaves and salt( little less)
- Mix them well, add lemon juice and stir it again.
- Close the pressure cooker and give two whistles.
- Leave it untouched until all the steam is out, only then the oil separates.
- Collect this separated oil in a cup which we use later.
- In the meantime when the cooker is cooling u can cook the basmati rice with plenty of water until it is half cooked.
- Add some mint, salt and elachi to the cooking rice.
- Strain all the water.
Arrange:
- Now in a large baking tray layer the rice and gravy, repeat it twice and top with rice.
- On this pour the oil which we collected and sprinkle little saffron color and few roasted fried onions.
- Cover it with Aluminium foil so no air escapes and place in oven.
- Bake 350 F for 10mins.
- Serve with Raita.
Note:
If u feel the rice is uncooked just sprinkle little water and leave in oven for another 5 mins.
This is one of my favorite dishes.. This is really yumyum food :-)
ReplyDeletehi kanchana....very nice and creative blog....keep it up....
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ReplyDeleteSure Nirmala....soon Bisibelabath willl be on the menu!
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