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Colmi-No-Palau (Prawn Pulao)

By Navaz Dhalla

Ingredients

2 cups basmati rice
2 cups chopped onion
3 tomatoes, chopped finely
2 cups large prawns, cleaned and deveined
2 stems of lemon grass, cut into 2" strips
7-8 saffron strands
6-7 curry leaves
3 tbsp ghee /oil
Coriander leaves for garnishing
Salt as per taste

Make Paste of with little water:
5 red Kashmiri chillies
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1/2" ginger
2 garlic pods
1 tbsp cummin seeds
2 cloves
10 peppercorns
2 cardamom
3-4 green chillies
1/2 tbsp fennel seeds

  Method

1. Wash rice and soak for 40 minutes
2. Boil the rice with water, salt and lemon grass
3. When cooked, drain the water and remove the lemon grass from the rice
4. Roast saffron in a skillet
5. Crush and mix it with rice
6. Heat ghee /oil in  a pan
7. Fry onion till brown
8. Remove half the onion and keep aside
9. Add the grounded paste and curry leaves
10. Saute for 3-4 minutes
11. Add tomatoes and salt
12. Mix it well
13. Add prawn and let it cook for 15-20 minutes
14. Layer it on the rice
15. Garnish with coriander leaves

 

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