YAKHANI PULAO

Prep Time : 30 mins

 Cooking Time : 25 mins

 Serves : 4

 INGREDIENTS

 Chicken - 500 gms

 Basmati rice - 2 cup

 Hot water - 4 cup

 Chopped onion - 4 medium

 Whole red chilly - 4 - 5

 Cloves - 5

 Green cardamom - 2 - 3

 Cinnamon - 1 inch stick'

 Mace - 1  piece

 Black cardamom - 1

 Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp

 Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

 Bay leaf - 2 - 3

 Saffron - few strands
Hot milk - 2 tbsp

 Green chilly - 2

 Garam masala powder - a pinch

 Chopped coriander leaves - 1 tsp

 Oil - 1/2 cup

 Clarified butter - 1/2 cup

 Salt - to taste

 METHOD

 Heat oil in a pan.

 Add whole garam to crackle.

 Add onion and fry till light brown

. Add ginger garlic paste and mix well.

 Add chicken pieces and salt and fry for 7 - 8 mins on medium flame,cover the lid

. When color of the chicken pieces are light brown turn off the flame

. Heat clarified butter in other pan and fry the chopped onion in dark brown and strain it

.Now add bay leaf and whole garam masala add ginger garlic paste and mix well

.Add rice and mint leaves and green chilly and mix well.

 Add rice,green chilly and four cup of hot water and cover it and cook 15 mins on medium flame.

 Add a pinch garam masala and switch off the gas.
Soak saffron in hot milk for one hour and mix into the pulao

. Garnish with coriander leaves and half fried onions and mix well and cover for five mins.

 Serve hot garnish with coriander leaves and fried onion.