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Sunday, 19 January 2014

Simple Chicken and Rice?

I'm so fond of dishes inspired by Arabic cuisine. Recently, I tried this whole chicken with some rice that turned out to be really great. You might wanna look at it.









Ingredients:
1 whole chicken
1tsp red chilli pwd
1tsp garam masala pwd
1tsp salt
1Tbsp vinegar
1 onion diced
4-5Tbsp oil
3-4Tbsp butter
1 1/2tsp ginger garlic paste
1/2 tsp red chilli pwd (optional)
3-4Tbsp beaten yoghurt
raisins as much as you like
a pinch of food color

Method:
STEP#1. You know that you have to cook with love.
STEP#2. Rub garam masla pwd, red chilli pwd, salt and vinegar on chicken. Prick some cuts on it and leave it to marinade for a while. (15mins atleast)

STEP#3. In a pot, add onions, oil, 2tbsp butter and chicken.


STEP#4.Fry the chicken until it gets a nice golden color on both sides. Add ginger garlic paste. Then add 4-5cups of water and let cook with the lid on the top until chicken is tender,

STEP#5.Remove the chicken from the pot and keep it aside.


STEP#6. Then in the remaining stock, add rice, salt and more spices if you like. You can add additional water if required.

STEP#7. When the rice is almost cooked, pour the yoghurt over the top, add food color and put chicken on the top and cover the lid. Cook on very low heat until the steam is created and rice is nice and fluffy. (this is called in Urdu as giving 'dumm' to the rice)
STEP#8. In a pan, heat butter and fry the raisins in it until they are nice and fluffy. Sprinke them over he rice and drizzle this butter on chicken too.


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