Recipes - Pudina Murg Pulav
- Veena Furtado
- Mangalore/Sharjah, UAE
Ingredients:
750 gms chicken, cut into 8 pieces
2 cups basmati rice
3 tbsp ghee
5 cups water
3 bay leaves
4 cloves
2 cinnamon sticks
4 green chillies
2” piece ginger
1 tsp. jeera powder
1 tsp chilli powder
1½ tsp. coriander powder
4 black cardamoms
1 tsp. garam masala
3 onions, finely sliced
1 tomato, finely chopped
¼ bunch coriander leaves, chopped
½ cup mint leaves, chopped
Salt as per taste.
Method:
Wash and soak the rice for 30 minutes. Drain water and set aside. Boil chicken pieces with cinnamon, cloves, black cardamom, ginger and a little salt in 5-cups of water. Cook until just tender. Remove from fire, strain and reserve the chicken pieces and stock separately. Discard whole spices along with ginger piece. Heat ghee in a heavy bottom vessel. Fry sliced onions until golden brown. Add green chillies, chopped tomato, chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves. Saute until light brown, add chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala, jeera powder and salt. Add 4 cups of stock and add strained rice along with chicken and bring to a boil.. Cover and cook over medium flame until the liquid gets absorbed. Add little stock if the rice is not cooked. Serve along with raita.
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