Showing posts with label Rice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rice. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 June 2021

Potato masala curry for breakfast and lunch | Urulakizhangu Masala Curry

How to prepare a simple potato masala curry for breakfast and lunch | Urulakizhangu Masala Curry

Potato masala curry for breakfast and lunch | Urulakizhangu Masala Curry


Ingredients:-

  • Potato – 3
  • Onion-1
  • Tomato-1
  • Green Chilli – 2
  • Shallot – 7
  • Ginger – ½ inch
  • Turmeric powder- ½ Teas Spoon
  • Chilli Powder – ½ Teas Spoon
  • Coriander Powder – 2 Teas Spoon
  • Garam Masala – a Pinch
  • Coconut – ½ Cup
  • Pepper corns- 20
  • Fennel Seeds – A pinch
  • Mustard Seeds – ½ Teaspoon
  • Salt to taste
  • Curry Leaves as needed

Preparation:-

  • Take a cooker and add Potato, onion, green chilli, ginger, salt to taste, turmeric powder, chilli powder and pressure cook by adding required water
  • Add oil in pan and add coconut, curry leaves and roast it
  • Once the coconut became brown in colour add coriander powder and switch off the stove
  • Take a mixer jar and grind coconut adding water
  • Add ground coconut into cooked potato and mix it well. 
  • Add required water and allow to boil
  • Add garam masala and switch off the stove
  • Heat oil in a pan splutter mustard seeds
  • Add shallot curry leaves and sauté well. Transfer it into curry
  • Tasty Potato Masala Curry / Urulakizhangu Masala Curry is ready to serve

Cheers!!!
Minu
#PotatoMasalaCurry #UrulakizhanguMasalaCurry #Ruchikaram

Sunday, 17 May 2020

Mushroom Rice | Mushroom Pulav | Kids Lunch Box Recipe

How to prepare Mushroom Rice | Mushroom Pulav


Special Mushroom Rice | Mushroom Pulav



Ingredients:-
  • Cooked rice with salt- 9 cup
  • Mushroom – 250 Gram
  • Onion – 1 Big
  • Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
  • Garlic – 5 pods
  • Ginger – ¼ Inch
  • Green Chilli – 3 sliced
  • Oil as needed
  • Butter as needed
  • Salt to taste


Preparation:-
  • Heat oil and butter in a pan and add garlic, ginger, green chilli and sauté well.
  • Add sliced onion, salt to taste and continue sautéing
  • Add sliced mushroom into the pan and sauté well
  • Add turmeric powder and close the pan and cook for 2 to 2 ½ minute
  • Transfer cooked rice into the pan and mix it well
  • Add ½ Teaspoon garam masala and mix it well
  • Tasty Mushroom pulav is ready to serve


Cheers!!!
Minu

Monday, 11 May 2020

Special Cauliflower Rice | Cauliflower Pulav

How to prepare Cauliflower Rice | Cauliflower Pulav


Cauliflower Rice | Cauliflower Pulav



Ingredients:-
  • Cauliflower – 1
  • Cooked Rice – 6 Cup
  • Corn Flour – ½ Cup
  • Turmeric Powder – ½ Teaspoon + a Pinch
  • Chilli Powder – 1 Teaspoon + ¼ Teaspoon
  • Kashmiri Chilli Powder – 1 Teaspoon
  • Cumin Seeds – ½ Teaspoon
  • Onion – 1
  • Tomato Sauce – 2 Tablespoon
  • Salt


Preparation:-
  • Clean Cauliflower and cut into small pieces
  • Take a bowl and add corn flour, ½ teaspoon turmeric powder, 1 Teaspoon chilli powder, 1 Teaspoon Kashmiri chilli Powder, salt to taste and mix it well by adding little water
  • Add cauliflower into the batter and mix it well to coat the batter all over
  • Heat oil in a pan and deep fry Cauliflower and keep it aside
  • Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds, onion, salt into it and sauté well
  • Add a pinch of turmeric powder, ¼ Teaspoon Chilli powder and sauté well
  • Add tomato sauce and continue sautéing
  • Transfer fried cauliflower into it and mix well
  • Add cooked rice and mix it well
  • Cauliflower rice is ready to serve


Cheers!!!
Minu

Sunday, 10 May 2020

Special Onion Rice | Ulli Choru | Ulli Moopicha Choru

How to prepare Quick Onion Rice| Ulli Choru


Quick Onion Rice| Ulli Choru

Ingredients:-

  • Cooked Rice – 4 Cup
  • Shallot / Small Onion – 20 Pods
  • Turmeric Powder – ½ Teaspoon
  • Pepper Powder – 1 to 1¼ Teaspoon
  • Curry Leaves as needed
  • Mustard Seeds – ½ Teaspoon
  • Dried red chilli – 2 to 3
  • Ghee – 3 to 3 ½ Tablespoon
  • Salt to taste


Preparation:-
  • Heat oil and splutter mustard seeds, add dried chilli, curry leaves and sauté well
  • Add Shallot/small onion, salt, turmeric powder and sauté well
  • Transfer cooked rice, pepper powder and mix it well
  • Tasty onion rice is ready to serve.


Cheers!!!
Minu



Friday, 24 April 2020

Easy Tomato rice | Cooker Tomato Rice

How to prepare Easy Tomato rice | Cooker Tomato Rice


Easy Tomato rice | Cooker Tomato Rice



Ingredients:-
  • Tomato – 4 Medium Sliced
  • Onion – 1 Small Sliced
  • Garlic – 5 Pods
  • Ginger – ¼ Inch
  • Green Chilli - 1
  • Coriander Leaves as required
  • Cumin Seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
  • Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
  • Chilli Powder – ½ Teaspoon
  • Salt to taste
  • Ghee – 1 ½ tablespoon
  • Basmati Rice – 1 ½ Cup
  • Water – 2 ¼ Cup


Preparation:-
  • Heat ghee in a cooker and sauté cumin seeds
  • Add ginger and garlic and continue Sautéing
  • Add Onion and green chilli sauté
  • Add tomato, salt to taste, turmeric powder, and chilli powder and sauté it again
  • Add washed rice and mix it well and then pour water
  • Taste the salt and add if required. Close the lid and cook for one whistle at high flame and then another whistle at medium whistle
  • Open the lid and add coriander leaves and mix it gently
  • Tasty Tomato rice is ready to serve



Cheers!!!
Minu

Monday, 20 April 2020

Palak Rice | Palak Pulav

How to prepare Palak Rice | Palak Pulav


Palak Rice | Palak Pulav



Ingredients:-
  • Cooked Rice – 6 Cup
  • Palak – 1 Bundle (10 leaves)
  • Onion – ½ portion
  • Green chilli - 2
  • Garlic – 4 pods
  • Cumin Seeds – ½ teaspoon
  • Turmeric powder – ¼ teaspoon
  • Salt to taste



Preparation:-
  • Boil palak by adding required water
  • Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds, garlic and sauté well
  • Add onion, green chilli, salt to taste and continue sautéing
  • Add grinded palak paste and turmeric powder into the pan and sauté well
  • Transfer cooked rice and mix it well
  • Tasty Palak rice is ready to serve.



Cheers!!!
Minu


Tuesday, 20 August 2019

How to prepare Chicken Fried Rice | Special Chicken Fried Rice

How to prepare Chicken Fried Rice | Special Chicken Fried Rice


Chicken Fried Rice | Special Chicken Fried Rice


Ingredients:-
  • Basmati Rice – 2 Cup
  • Chicken – 1 Cup small pieces boneless
  • Egg – 2
  • Onion – 1 Medium
  • Carrot – 1 Medium
  • Beans – 5 to 10
  • Garlic – 2 Teaspoon
  • Spring Onion – ½ Cup
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper Powder – 3 Teaspoon
  • Red Chilli Sauce
  • Soya sauce


Preparation:-
  • First let’s cook 2 cup Basmati rice and keep it away for cool down
  • Add 1 teaspoon soya sauce, salt to taste and pepper powder into the chicken and mix it well
  • Heat oil in a pan and deep fry chicken and keep it aside
  • Heat oil in a pan and pour beaten egg to make scrambled egg and keep it aside
  • Heat oil in a pan and sauté garlic
  • Add onion, carrot, beans, salt to taste into the pan and continue sautéing
  • Add chopped spring onion, 2 teaspoon soya sauce, 1 teaspoon pepper powder and mix it well
  • Add scrambled egg into the vegetables and mix it well
  • Transfer fried chicken into the pan and mix it again
  • Transfer cooked rice in to the pan and mix it well
  • Finally add 1 Teaspoon soya sauce, 1 Teaspoon red chilli sauce, pepper powder, spring onion and mix it well
  • Tasty chicken fried rice is ready to serve


Cheers!!!
Minu

Thursday, 15 August 2019

Thalassery Special Chemmeen Biriyani | Prawns Biriyani

How to prepare Chemmeen Biriyani | Prawns Biriyani


Chemmeen Biriyani | Prawns Biriyani



Ingredients for preparing Biriyani Rice:-
  • Biriyani Rice (Jeera) – 2 Cup
  • Fennel Seeds – ¼ Tsp
  • Cloves - 4
  • Cardamom – 3
  • Cinnamon – One small stick
  • Mace – 1 strand
  • Bay leaf – 2 small
  • Star Anise - 2
  • Water – 3 Cup
  • Oil & Ghee as required
  • Salt to taste
  • Lemon Juice - from half portion of a lemon

Ingredients for Onion Fry (Bista):-
  • Onion - 2 Medium
  • Salt to taste
  • Sugar – ¼ Teaspoon

Ingredients for Prawns Marination:-
  • Prawns – 250 Gram
  • Turmeric – ¼ Teaspoon
  • Chilli Powder – ½ Teaspoon
  • Salt to taste

Ingredients for Prawns Masala:-
  • Onion – 3 Medium
  • Ginger (1 Inch) Garlic (12 Pods) and Green Chilli (2) paste
  • Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
  • Chilli Powder – ¾ Teaspoon
  • Coriander Powder – 2 Teaspoon
  • Tomato – 2 Medium
  • Garam masala– ¼ Teaspoon
  • Pepper powder – ¼ Teaspoon
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil as required
  • Coriander leaves as needed
  • Mint leaves as required


Preparation:-

Biriyani Rice
  • Heat 2 Tablespoon ghee in a vessel, add all the spices (Cloves, Star Anise, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Bay Leaves, and Fennel Seeds) into it and sauté well
  • Add rice into the vessel and mix it well until rice starts cracking. Add 3 cup water into the rice.
  • Add salt into it
  • Add lemon juice (squeezed from half portion of the lemon) into the rice
  • Once it starts boiling close the vessel with a lid and place a weight on top of the vessel
  • Heat oil in a pan and add finely chopped onion and sauté well by adding a little salt

Onion Fry (Bista)
  • To make the fried onion crispy add a little sugar into it and continue sautéing

Prawns Marination
  • Take prawns in a bowl and add salt to taste, turmeric powder, and chilli powder and mix it well

Prawns Masala
  • Heat oil in a pan and add onion into it sauté well by adding a little salt
  • Add ginger garlic and green chilli paste into it and continue sautéing
  • Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and coriander powder
  • Add tomatoes into the pan
  • Add Prawns and mix it well. Pour required water to cook the Prawns and add few coriander leaves
  • Cook the prawns by closing the vessel
  • Add garam masala and pepper powder and mix it well
  • Add fried half portion of fried onion into it
  • Once the masala become dry switch off the stove
  • Heat a pan and add ghee into it. Fry cashew nuts and raisins and keep it aside
  • Layering:-
    • ·               Take a big vessel and spread Prawns masala on top of it
    • ·               Add cooked Biriyani rice on the top of prawns masala
    • ·               Add Coriander leaves
    • ·               Add fried cashew nuts and raisins
    • ·               Add a little garam masala
    • ·               Continue the process
  • Heat a dosa pan. Place the cooker on the top of the pan. Keep the flame low for 5 min
  • Tast Thalassery special Chemmeen Biriyani is ready to serve


Cheers!!!
Minu


Wednesday, 5 June 2019

Chicken Bamboo Biriyani | Iftar Nombuthura Special Chicken Biriyani

How to prepare Chicken Bamboo Biriyani | Iftar Nombuthura Special Chicken Biriyani


Chicken Bamboo Biriyani | Iftar Nombuthura Special Chicken Biriyani



Ingredients for Biriyani Rice:-
  • Jeera Rice – 3 Cup
  • Water – 4 ½ Cup
  • Ghee – 1 ½ Tablespoon
  • Oil - 1 Table spoon
  • Cardamom - 4
  • Cloves - 5
  • Cinnamon – small piece
  • Mace – 1 strand
  • Fennel Seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
  • Star Anise – 1
  • Lemon Juice – ½ Portion squeezed
  • Salt as needed
  • Fried Onion – 2 medium size, finely chopped
  • Cashew nuts as needed
  • Raisins as needed


Ingredients for Chicken:-
  • Chicken (Small pieces) – 500 Gram
  • Onion – 4 Medium size
  • Tomato – 2 Medium Size
  • Green Chilli – 4
  • Ginger – 1 ½ Inch
  • Garlic – 15 Pods
  • Thalassery Biriyani Masala – 1 ½ Table spoon
  • Turmeric a pinch
  • Pepper Powder – 2 ½ Teaspoon
  • Curd – 1 ½ Tablespoon
  • Salt as needed
  • Curry leaves, Coriander Leaves and Mint leaves as required

Preparation:-
  • Keep one big vessel to prepare the biriyani in a stove and add oil and ghee. Once it become hot add all the spices (Cloves, Star Anise, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Dry pepper, Fennel Seeds) into it and sauté well
  • Add rice into this and stir well until the rice starts cracking. Keep the flame in medium
  • Add water (4 ½ Cup [1 ½ Cup water for 1 Cup rice] into it. Add salt to taste into the rice and stir well.
  • Add lemon juice (squeezed from half portion of the lemon) into the water
  • Once it starts boiling close the vessel with a lid and keep a weight on top of the vessel. Keep the flame medium.
  • Open the lid after 5 min and mix it well. Cook for another 5 min and then switch of the stove.
  • Add Bista (Fried onion), cashew nuts and raisin into the rice and mix it well
  •  
  • Take a cooker and add oil -1 ½ tablespoon into it. Add chopped onion (4 Medium size) into it. Add a little salt into it and sauté well until it become transparent
  • Add ginger garlic & chilli paste prepared by using Garlic – 15 pods, Green Chilli- 4, Ginger 1 ½ Inch) and sauté well
  • Add 1 ½ Table spoon Thalassery Biriyani masala
  • Add a pinch turmeric powder and mix it again
  • Add Tomato 2 medium size into the masala
  • Add marinated chicken using 2 1/2 Teaspoon Pepper Powder and required salt into the cooker and mix well.
  • Cook chicken for 1 whistle and then switch off the stove
  • Add 1 ½ Tablespoon curd into chicken and mix it well
  • Add Curry leaves, coriander leaves and mint leaves into the chicken. Switch off the stove
  • Take a bamboo puttu making vessel. Fill rice first then chicken and on top of the chicken fill rice again and steam it for 5 to 7 min
  • Tasty bamboo chicken Biriyani is ready to serve


Cheers!!!
Minu


Friday, 1 March 2019

Beetroot Rice | Kids Lunch Box Menu

How to prepare Beetroot Rice | Kids Lunch Box Menu?


Beetroot Rice | Kids Lunch Box Menu



Ingredients:-
  • Basmati Rice – 2 Cup
  • Beetroot Grated – 1 Cup
  • Garlic sliced – 1 Tablespoon
  • Ginger Crushed - 1 Tablespoon
  • Cloves - 2
  • Cinnamon – Small Piece
  • Cardamom - 2
  • Cumin Seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
  • Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
  • Lemon Juice – 1 Tablespoon
  • Green Chilli - 1
  • Curry leaves and coriander leaves as needed
  • Ghee - 1 Tablespoon
  • Salt as needed

 
Preparation:-
  • Heat a cooker and pour ghee into it. Add cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, Cumin seeds into it and sauté well
  • Add garlic, ginger and continue sautéing
  • Add beetroot, green chilli and a little curry leaves into the cooker and sauté
  • Add salt to taste, turmeric powder and sauté well
  • Add rice into the cooker and mix it well
  • Pour 4 glasses of water (1:2) and keep the flame high until it starts boiling
  • Pour lemon juice and allow it to boil.
  • Keep the flame high for one whistle and then keep the flame between sim to medium until second whistle and then switch off the stove
  • Tasty beetroot rice is ready to serve

 

Cheers!!!
Minu


Monday, 24 December 2018

Thalassery Fish Dum Biriyani | Thalassery Special Meen Biriyani

How to prepare Thalassery Fish Dum Biriyani | Authentic Thalassery Special Meen Biriyani?


Thalassery Fish Dum Biriyani | Authentic Thalassery Special Meen Biriyani


Ingredients:-
  • Jeera Rice – 3 Cup
  • Seer fish/Ayakkoora – 500 Gram
  • Onion – 5 finely chopped
  • Tomato – 2
  • Green chilli (3), Ginger(15), Garlic (2 Inch) crushed
  • Turmeric Power – 1 ½ Teaspoon
  • Chilli powder – 1 ½ Tablespoon
  • Coriander Powder – ½ Teaspoon
  • Pepper Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
  • Thalassery Biriyani Masala – 1 Teaspoon
  • Cardamom - 4
  • Cloves - 5
  • Cinnamon – small piece
  • Mace – 1 strand
  • Fennel Seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
  • Lemon Juice – 1
  • Coriander and Mint leaves as needed
  • Salt as needed
  • Ghee as needed
  • Cashew nuts & raisins as needed

 

Preparation:-
  • Marinate the fish by adding salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder and a little lemon juice.
  • Keep one big vessel to prepare the biriyani in a stove and add 1 Tbsp oil and 2 Tbsp ghee
  • Add rice into the vessel and stir well until the rice starts breaking.
  • Add water (4 ½ Cup [1 ½ Cup water for 1 Cup rice] into it
  • Add salt to taste into the rice and stir well
  • Once the water start boiling add spices and lemon juice
  • Once it starts boiling close the vessel with a lid and keep a weight on top of the vessel.
  • After 5 min switch off the stove and keep it aside.
  • Heat a pan and pour oil into it.
  • Transfer fish into the pan and fry on both sides
  • Heat oil in a pan and add finely chopped onion and sauté well by adding a little salt
  • Add ginger, garlic and green chilli paste into the pan and continue sautéing
  • Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder and sauté  
  • Add tomato into the onion and sauté
  • Add pepper powder into the pan and mix it well
  • Add Thalassery special biriyani masala and sauté  
  • Add turmeric water, fried cashew nuts and raisins
  • Add coriander and mint leaves and also sprinkle thalassery biriyani masala
  • Repeat the layering
  • Add bista (fried onion) on top of the rice
  • Heat a dosa pan, place the cooker on top of the pan, and close the cooker with whistle.  Keep the flame low for 10 min.  Once the cooker lid become warm switch off the stove
  • Open the cooker once the cooker lid become warm
  • Thalassery Special Fish Biriyani is ready to serve!!!


Cheers!!!
Minu




Sunday, 7 October 2018

Cooker Chicken Biriyani | Chicken Biriyani in 15 Min

How to prepare Cooker Chicken Biriyani | Chicken Biriyani in 15 Min


Cooker Chicken Biriyani | Chicken Biriyani in 15 Min


 Ingredients:-

  • Jeera Rice – 3 Cup (660 Gram)
  • Chicken – 500 Gram
  • Onion – 3 Nicely Sliced
  • Tomato – 2 Sliced
  • Ginger Garlic, Green chilli paste – 2 Table Spoon
  • (Garlic – 12 pods, Ginger – 1 Inch, Green chilli - 4)
  • Turmeric Powder – 1 Tea Spoon
  • Chilli Powder – 1 Tea Spoon
  • Coriander Powder – 1 Table Spoon
  • Chicken Masala – 1 Table Spoon
  • Gram Masala – ½ Tea Spoon
  • Cloves - 4
  • Cinnamon – ½ Inch
  • Cardamom - 3
  • Coriander leave as needed
  • Mint leaves as needed
  • Ghee as needed
  • Cashew nuts and raisins as needed
  • Lemon Juice – 1 squeezed
  • Salt as needed


Preparation:-
  • To marinate the chicken, add salt, turmeric powder - ½ Tea Spoon, chilli powder - ½ Tea Spoon, coriander powder - ½ Table Spoon, “ginger-garlic-green chilli paste - 1 Table Spoon, lemon juice - 1 Tea spoon and mix it well. Keep it aside for 10 min
  • Take a cooker and heat oil 1 table spoon and ghee ½ Table spoon.
  • Add spices and onion into the cooker and sauté well
  • Add ginger-garlic-green chilli paste
  • Add Turmeric Powder, Chilli Powder, Coriander Powder, and Chicken Masala and continue Sautéing
  • Add Tomato and sauté
  • Transfer chicken and coriander leaves into the cooker and mix it well
  • Add rice into the chicken and mix it well
  • Pour water 4.5 cup water into the cooker (For 1 cup 1.5 Cup water is required)
  • Add required salt into the rice
  • Add garam masala, lemon juice and ghee
  • Close the cooker using the lid and cook the rice
  • Heat ghee in a pan and add Cashew first and then raisins
  • Add cashew and raisins, Coriander leaves, Mint leaves into the biriyani and mix well
  • Tasty cooker chicken Biriyani is ready to serve


Cheers!!!
Minu

Thursday, 22 March 2018

Thalassery Special Ghee Rice | Malabar Special Neychoru

How to prepare Thalassery/Malabar style Neychoru/Ghee Rice?

Thalassery/Malabar is famous for foodies. Once of the best and most famous Biriyani in Kerala is available in this small City called Thalassery. There is a specialty in Ghee rice too in this area. Ghee rice you get from Thalassery will not have any additional ingredients except bista (Fried Onion) cashew nuts and raisins. We use only Jeera rice to make Biriyani/Ghee rice. Here I am showing how to make authentic Thalassery style Ghee rice.


Thalassery Special Ghee Rice | Malabar Special Neychoru



Ingredients:-
  • Jeera Rice – 2 Cup/Glass (Around 230 ml)
  • Oil - 1 Tbsp
  • Ghee – 2 Tbsp
  • Cloves - 10
  • Cardamom - 5
  • Cinnamon Stick – 1 Inch
  • Dry pepper - 10
  • Star Anise - 1
  • Fennel Seeds – ½  Tsp
  • Water – 3 Cup and 3 Tbsp (1 ½ Cup water for 1 Cup rice and 3 Tbsp extra)
  • Lemon Juice – 1 Tbsp Squeezed from half portion of the lemon
  • Onion for Bista – 3 Big onion finely chopped

 
Preparation:-
  • Keep one big vessel in a stove and add 1 Tbsp oil and 2 Tbsp ghee
  • Once it become hot add spices (Cloves -8 , Star Anise -1, Cinnamon Stick – 1 Inch, Cardamom - 5, Dry pepper - 10, Fennel Seeds – ½ Tsp) into it and sauté well
  • Add rice into the vessel and stir well until the rice starts breaking. Keep the flame in medium
  • Add 1 Tbsp lemon juice (squeezed from half portion of the lemon) into the water
  • Once it starts boiling close the vessel with a lid and keep a weight on top of the vessel
  • Make sure to keep the flame between low and medium and cook for 6 min
  • Open the lid and mix the rice after 6 min.
  • Again close the vessel with a lid and keep a weight on top of the vessel. Cook for 1 to 1 ½ min at LOW flame and then switch off the stove. Keep it aside for 5 min without taking the weight.
  • To prepare the bista (Onion Fry), cut the 3 big onion as much thin as possible
  • Heat a pan and pour oil into it. Add finely chopped onion and sauté well until it become dark brown
  • Heat a pan and add ghee into it. Fry cashew nuts and raisins and keep it aside
  • Open the lid and mix the rice. Let’s garnish the rice with bista(Onion fry), cashew and raisins. Ghee rice is ready to serve


Cheers!!!
Minu

Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Mushroom Biriyani | Easy Mushroom Cooker Biriyani



Mushroom Biriyani | Easy Mushroom Cooker Biriyani


 Ingredients:-

Biriyani Rice – 2 ½ Glass (240 ml)
Onion – 2 Medium Size
Mushroom – 200 gm
Tomato -1 big
Ginger/Garlic/GreenChilli crushed – I Tbsp
  • ·         Ginger – 1 Inch
  • ·         Garlic – 7 Pods
  • ·         Green Chilli – 2

Spices
  • Cloves - 5
  • Star Anise - 1
  • Cinnamon – 1 Stick
  • Fennel Seeds – ½ Tsp
  • Cardamom – 5
  • Pepper – 5

Turmeric Powder – ½ Tsp
Chilli Powder – ¾ Tsp
Coriander Powder – 1 ¼ Tsp
Garam Masala – ½ Tsp
Coriander Leaves as required
Mint Leaves as required
Lemon juice – 1 Tsp
Salt as required
Ghee – ½ Tbsp
Oil – ½ Tbsp
Water – 3 ¾ Glass (for 1 Glass rice 1 ½ Glass water)


Preparation:-
  • Take a cooker and add ½ Tbsp oil and ½ Tbsp gheee into it. Put Spices into it and sauté well
  • Add onion into the cooker and stir well when it became transparent add mushroom as well
  • Add crushed Ginger/Garlic/Green Chilli into the cooker and sauté well
  • Now add salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder and sauté
  • Once the raw smell goes away add tomato mix well
  • Add Garam masala and mix well
  • Add a little mint and coriander leaves
  • Once the mix is ready add rice into the mixture and sauté well until it start breaking
  • Add water into the mixture and stir well to mix all the ingredients. Keep the flame high
  • Taste the salt and add salt if required
  • Add lemon juice and mix well
  • Close the lid and cook for one whistle by keeping high flame, reduce the flame to medium and cook for one more whistle 
  • Once steam goes away open the lid and mix the rice add a little mint and coriander leaves if you would like
  • Serve it hot


Cheers!!!

Minu

Tuesday, 2 January 2018

Kerala Style Chicken Dum Biriyani


Kerala Style Chicken Dum Biriyani



Ingredients for Chicken Marination:-
Chicken – 500 gm
Salt – as required
Turmeric Powder – ½ Tsp
Chilli Powder – ½ Tsp
Coriander powder – 1 Tsp
Pepper Powder – ½ Tsp
Ingredients for preparing Biriyani Rice:-

Biriyani Rice – 2 Cup/Glass (Around 230 ml)
Oil – 1 Tsp
Ghee – 1 Tsp
Cloves - 8
Star Anise - 1
Cinnamon – one Stick
Cardamom - 5
Dry pepper - 10
Fennel Seeds – ¼ Tsp
Water – 3 ½ Cup (1 ½ Cup water for 1 Cup rice and ½ cup extra)


Preparation:-
  • Cut and clean the Chicken and take that into a vessel for marination
  • Add Salt, Turmeric powder, Chilli powder, Coriander powder, Pepper powder and mix well and keep it aside for some time
  • Take 2 cup (230 ml) biriyani rice and wash it well, make sure to drain the rice well
  • Keep one big vessel to prepare the biriyani in a stove and add oil and ghee. Once it become hot add all the spices (Cloves, Star Anise, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Dry pepper, Fennel Seeds) into it and sauté well
  • Add rice into this and stir well until the rice starts cracking. Keep the flame in medium
  • Add 3 ½ cup water into the rice. Keep the flame high
  • Add salt into it
  • Add lemon juice (squeezed from half portion of the lemon) into the water
  • Add 1/2 Tsp ghee into the water
  • Once it starts boil closed with a lid and place a weight on the top of the vessel
  • Keep the flame into high for 1 to 1 ½ min
  • After one min reduce the flame to medium for 5 min
  • Open the lid, reduce the flame to low and mix the rice well
  • Again close the lid, place a weight and keep the flame into, medium for one min
  • After one min switch off the stove and keep the vessel aside
  • Take a cooker and add oil -1 ½ tbsp into it. Add cut onion (5 Medium size) into it. Add a little salt into it and stir well until it become transparent
  • Add 4 ½ Tsp ginger garlic paste prepared by using Garlic – 20 pods, Green Chilli- 4, Ginger medium size) and sauté well
  • Add Turmeric powder - ½ Tsp, Chilli powder - ¼ Tsp, Coriander powder - 1 ½ Tsp, Pepper powder - ¼ Tsp, Chicken masala – ½ Tsp and sauté well
  • Add Tomato 3 medium size into the mixture
  • Add marinated chicken into the cooker and mix well. Add 2 Tbsp water and close the lid. Cook the chicken for 1 whistle and then switch off the stove
  •  Heat a pan and add ghee into it. Fry cashew nuts and raisins and keep it aside
  • Open the cooker and check whether the chicken is cooked.
  • Switch on the stove and cook till the gravy become thicken
  • Add garam masala and coriander leaves into the chicken. Switch off the stove
  • Keep 3 or 4 pieces and gravy into the cooker and transfer remaining chicken pieces into another vessel
  • Mix the cooked biriyani rice from the vessel

Layering:-
·         Add cooked biriyani rice on the top of chicken gravy and pieces
·         Add a little turmeric into milk and sprinkle that turmeric milk into the rice
·         Add Coriander leaves
·         Add fried cashew nuts and raisins
·         Add a little garam masala
·         Continue the process 
  • Heat a dosa pan. Place the cooker on the top of the pan. Keep the flame into medium for 10 min
  • Biriyani is ready to serve
Cheers!!!
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