Chicken Pulao

Ingredients

Chicken – 250 gm

Basmati rice – ½ kg

Onion – 1

cumin seed - 1 tsp

 ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

tomato – 1

green chilli – 2

few curry leaves or 1 bay leaf

red chilli powder – 1 tsp

corriander powder – 1 tsp

roasted cumin powder – 1 tsp

garam masala – ½ tsp

juice of half lemon

corriander and mint leaves

salt as per taste

Method

Wash chicken and keep aside.

Wash rice and soak in water for half an hour.

Heat oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds and let it splutter. Then add curry leaves, green chillies and stir fry for a minute. Then add onions and fry till golden brown in color.

Add ginger garlic paste and saute for few seconds till the raw smell goes and then add tomato and cook till it is completely mashed.

Then add all the powdered masala  and salt and stir fry for a minute and then add chicken pieces. Mix it well and cook for 2 minutes.

Add water double the quantity of rice and corriander leaves and lemon juice.

Let it boil. Add drain rice and cook till the rice is fully cooked on a medium flame.

Serve it hot with raita.

Mexican Paratha

Ingredients

Onion – 1

Crushed garlic – 3 to 4

Green chilli – 2

Green, yellow and red capsicum – 1 each

Tomato – 1

Boiled and crushed corn – 1 cup

Paneer – 100 gm

Cheese – 100 gm

Salt as per taste

 Coriander leaves for garnishing

Chicken Spread

Ingredients
Chicken - 200 gm  boiled and shredded/minced
crushed flakes of garlic - 3 to 4
red chilli sauce - 1 tsp
green chilli sauce - 1 tsp
salt and pepper to taste
egg - 1
sesame seeds for garnishing
few bread slices

Method
Mix all the ingredients together and spread on the bread. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top and shallow fry it in oil till cooked. Serve hot.

Malpua

Ingredients

Wheat flour – 1 cup

Curd – 2 tbl.sp

Milk – ¼ cup

Sugar – 1 tsp

Salt a pinch

For sugar syrup

Sugar – 1 cup

Water – 1 cup

Cardamom powder – ¼ tsp

Saffron a pinch of

Method

For sugar syrup -First take a pan, add water and sugar and cardamom powder and boil in till one thread consistency. Put little saffron and keep aside.

For malpua – mix wheat flour, curd, milk and salt and make a batter like dosa batter, you can add water if you like and keep it aside for an hour.

Heat pan, put little ghee and then take one big spoon of this batter and pour it in the form of a pancake and add more ghee. Turn and cook on the other side and when done, drain and immerse in the  warm sugar syrup.

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