Ingredients

• 250 g - rice cooked in salt water
• 50 g - 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

How to Make Baked pistachio rice

• Heat the butter and saute 1 cup onion. Add chicken and cook for 2 minutes.
• Add flour, saute till light brown.
• Add the pistachio paste, saute for 1 minute.
• 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
• Fry remaining spring onions in oil, add rice and remove from fire.
• Grease an oven proof dish, spread half the rice, spread the sauce over it and cover with remaining rice.
• Sprinkle some chopped pistachio on the rice and knobs of butter. Bake for 10 minutes. Decorate with carrot petals.