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I am Rabab and cooking is my hobby and entertaining guests a pleasant and satisfying fall out. The easiest way to your loved ones heart is thru their stomach. I have made the following dish several times and received much praise, and I love to share my secret with you.

E-mail : asgarf@hotmail.com

Baked Pistachio Rice

Ingredients

250 gms rice cooked in salt water
50 gms pistachio paste
1 cup chicken, boiled and shredded
2-3 tbsp butter
2 cups spring onion chopped
1 tbsp flour
1 cup milk
1/2 cup chicken stock
3-4 chillies, chopped
Salt and pepper to taste
1/2 tsp ajinomoto
Carrots for garnishing
Few pistachios chopped

Method :

  1. Heat butter and saute 1 cup onion.
  2. Add chicken and cook for 2 minutes.
  3. Add flour, saute till light brown.
  4. Add the pistachio paste, saute for 1 minute.
  5. Gradually add milk, stock, chillies and 1/2 cup spring onion. Cook for 2-3 minutes season with salt, pepper and ajinomoto and remove from fire
  6. Fry remaining spring onions in oil, add rice and remove from fire.
  7. Grease an oven proof dish, spread half the rice, spread the sauce over it and cover with remaining rice.
  8. Sprinkle some chopped pistachio on the rice and knobs of butter. Bake for 10 minutes. Decorate with carrot petals.

Now sit back coyly and see it finishing off the plate. If it so happens I get the credit for having given you my secret, if otherwise blame it on your ineptitude. Good Luck !



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