By Lalitha Premkumar
Ingredients
1/4 kg Chicken
1 cup Basmati rice
11/2 Water
1 cup Onion (thinly chopped)
3/4 cup Tomato (finely chopped)
2 inch Ginger
8 Garlic cloves
2 Green chillies
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
2 tbsp Curd
1 tsp Red chilli powder
1 tsp Anise seeds
1 Cinnamon stick (small)
3 Cloves
Kesari powder a pinch
1/4 tsp Garam masala powder
1/4 cup Mint leaves
4 tbsp Coriander leaves(finely chopped)
2 tsp Oil
2 tsp Ghee or dalda
Salt to taste
Method
- Clean the chicken and cut into medium-sized pieces.
- Grind the ginger, garlic and anise seeds into a fine paste.
- Add oil in the pressure cooker and heat it.
- Add cinnamon stick, cloves and fry it for a few seconds.
- Add ginger-garlic paste, mint leaves, coriander leaves, onion and tomato and fry it well.
- Add the chicken and fry it for a minute.
- Then add turmeric powder, chilli powder, 11/2 cups of water, curd, salt and rice and stir it well.
- Close the cooker with the lid and turn the flame to medium high.
- Once you get the pressure, put the weight on the cooker and turn the flame to medium low and keep it for 8 minutes.
- After 8 minutes remove the cooker from the stove and keep it aside.
- After 10 minutes remove the lid and stir the rice well and serve it with onion raita.
South Indian Dishes - Non Veggies Index
