Chicken Pulao

Ingredients:-

700 gms of chicken

Salt to taste

3 small onions

1/2 inch of ginger

7-8 pods of garlic

2 tbspn plain yogurt

1 tspn green chili paste

6-7 tbspn oil

1/2 tspn sugar

2 cups rice

10 cashews

1/4th cup pistachio slices

2 bay leaves

3/4 inch cinnamon stick

6 cloves

4 green cardamom

1/2 tspn garam masala powder

Method:-

Cut chicken into small pieces. Wash well, salt and set aside. Make a paste of onion, ginger and garlic. Mix with the chicken. Add plain yogurt and chili paste. Marinate over night.

Now heat oil in a oak. Add chicken. Keep covered and chicken will cook itself in its own juices released by heat. When the juices dry up, add salt and sugar and keep stirring the chicken. Set it aside.

In another pan mix, rice for pulao with sugar salt, cashews and pistachios slices. Heat oil in a oak, add bay leaves, cinnamon stick, cloves and green cardamom. Add rice stir fry for a minute till the rice is white and opaque. Add water. Cover and cook.

After rice is fully cooked add chicken pieces, garam masala powder. Adjust salt. Cover and put it on very low flame. Keep it for a few minutes. Stir well. Turn the heat off.

Serve hot with raita.