chicken biryani - a flavorful one!

This chicken biryani is a flavorful biryani , made with the freshly ground masala.. A super flavor to the chicken biryani . Do try the variation.



Ingredients:

• Basmati rice - 1 cup
• Chicken -250 gms
• Coconut milk - 1 cup
• Water - 1 cup
• Salt
• Ghee
• Oil
• Onion - 1 cut into julienne 
• Cinnamon -1"
• Cloves - 2

To grind:

• Green chilly -3
• Coriander leaves - one handful
• Cinnamon - 1"
• Cloves - 4
• Cardamom - 3
• Ginger garlic paste - 1 1/2 tsp

Method:

• Heat the pressure cooker,add oil and ghee, season cinnamon,cloves.
• Add onions and the chicken. Fry well.
• Add the ground paste,salt. Sauté till the raw smell and the paste is fried well.
• Add rice and lastly coconut milk and water.
• Switch off after 2'whistles. Aromatic flavorful biryani would be ready.
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  Relish the yummy biryani! I served it with onion Raitha and chicken chukka!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Lotus seed kheer / tamarai vidhai payasam

Hi all,

Wishing you all a wonderful year 2014! Hey new year friends...  

Let me start with a kheer this year..  It's a simple sweet, different from a regular kheer.


Ingredients:

• Lotus seeds - one handful or one cup
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Ghee - 2 tsps
• Cashews
• Milk - 1/2 liter
• Cardamom powder
• Raisins

Method:

• Heat a pan, add a tsp of ghee, fry the cashews and raisins and keep it aside.
• Add another tsp of oil, add the lotus seeds and fry it for 5 mins. Keep stirring 
• Boil milk in a vessel. Add sugar to the milk.
• Add the fried lotus seeds to the milk. Allow it to boil for 10mins.
• Add the cardamom powder.
• The kheer is ready with the fine soaked lotus seeds.

                                                                         Relish it hot!