Chicken Mutanjan

ingredients

Chicken – 1 kg

Rice – 750 gm

Kismis or raisins – 50 gm

Onion – ½ kg

 Ginger – 50 gm

Garlic – 8 cloves

Red chilli as per taste

Ghee or butter – 250 gm

Sugar – 500 gm

Juice of 2 lemon

Pinch of kesar and kewra

Chopped almonds – 100 gm Coriander seeds – 1 tsp

Turmeric powder – 1 tsp

Small cardamom – 8

Black cardamom – 4

Cinnamon – 1 inch Black pepper -6

Cloves – 6

Fennel seeds – 1 tsp

Methods

Clean and wash chicken in salt water. Cut onion into four pieces, whole ginger and garlic and rest all ingredients (whole) tie it in a clean muslin cloth and put it in vessel containing water, salt and chicken.. Keep this water for boiling. When the chicken pieces are cooked and little water is left in the container, remove from fire. Remove muslin cloth from the vessel.

In another vessel, heat ghee and cardamom seeds and then add chicken pieces and fry it on a low flame.

Dissolve sugar in water and add to the chicken. Boil rice in another vessel and remove from water, when half cooked. Now add this rice to the chicken. Now add lemon juice, chopped almonds and raisins  to it.

In the end add kesar and kewra, add little milk if needed. When cooked remove it on a plate and decorate it with coriander and mint leaves.