05/04/2016
Nawabi recipe
Join me in the making of this wonderful dish. Of course the verdict from all of you is still waiting
Ingredients needed:
For Gravy:
Chicken - 1/2 kg
Ginger- Garlic paste - 2 tsps
Salt to taste
Onions - 1 medium
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Cashew Nut paste - 10 nos
Oil - 2 tbsps
Lucknowi Nawabi Biryani Masala 10 grams(2 tsp)
For Rice
Basmati Rice - 2 cups
Cloves - 3
Cinnamon - 1 inch
Green Cardamom - 2
Bay leaf - 1
Milk - 50 ml
Saffron - few strands
Salt to taste
Water - 3 cups
Chop cleaned chicken into small pieces. Marinate the chicken pieces in ginger garlic paste along with salt and 10 grams of Luckowi nawabi biryani masala for 1/2 hour.
Clean Basmati rice in water once, max 2 times not more than that as it will break. Soak the rice for 15 mins, in the same water that you are going to use for cooking. This to make sure the minerals and vitamins are not lost.
Meanwhile make a paste of Onions.
In a small cup, take warm milk and soak the Saffron, so that the colour comes out.
Once 15 mins is done, drain the rice from water, keep the water aside. Please don't throw away the water, remember we are going to use the same water for cooking.
Once chicken pieces are marinated for 1/2 half , heat a pan with two tablespoon of oil.
Fry the chopped onion in oil till its brown in colour. Add chicken pieces. Stir well so that its coated well with Onions.
When you have everything cooked and ready, take a thick bottom pan or cooker, coat the bottom with ghee.
Spread a layer of cooked rice, sprinkle saffron on top.
Then put a layer of cooked chicken.
Add finely chopped coriander leaves over chicken gravy.Then repeat the process until you are done. Ensure the top layer is rice. so sprinkle Saffron milk again on top. Cover with lid and cook it on low flame for 30 mins.
Once 30 mins is over, remove to a casserole without mixing the rice with chicken gravy.
The final result will be a colourful mixture of pure white rice with green coriander, brown fried chicken pieces and yellow saffron colour.
Rice is ready to serve. This can be served by itself, but if you want to busy yourself go ahead serve this with thin Chicken gravy or Onion raita.