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Tamilnadu chicken biriyani

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INGREDIENTS Rice - 2 cups Chicken with bone - 750 gm Oil + ghee - 4 tbsp Cinnamon - 2 sticks Cardamom - 5 Cloves - 5 Onion - 3 sliced Tomatoes - 2 Garlic - 1 pod Ginger - 2 inch piece Greenchillies - 10 +2 Salt Chilly powder - 1/4 tsp 3 green chillies, slit Garam masala powder - 1 tsp yogurt - 2 tbsp coriander leaves, coarsely chopped Juice of a small lemon INSTRUCTIONS Heat Oil in a pan  and add Cinnamon, Cloves and Cardamom. Add  the onions and saute until the onions are soft. Once the onions are soft, Add in the tomatoes and the ginger garlic paste. Saute the mixture until streaks of oil appear on the top. Then, add in the green chillies and the chicken. Briefly saute for a minute to coat the chicken. Add in the salt, red chilli powder and the garam masala  powder. Add  the yogurt. Mix well. Add the washed and soaked rice in to the masala. Add salt and coriander leaves.mix again and add 1.5 cup of water .close the lid and cook until its do...

Lemon rice/elumicha sadam

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Ingrediants: Rice – 2 cups cooked Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu– 1 tsp Mustard seeds / Kaduku -1 tsp Channa Dal / Kadala Paruppu – 1tsp Dry Red Chillies – 2 broken Curry leaves -1 spring Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi -1tsp Salt to taste Hing - 1/4 tsp Lemon Juice – 2 tblspn or to taste Oil- 2 tblspn Method: Heat oil in a kadai. Add mustard seeds, channa dal, urad dal, dry red chillies, curry leaves and fry for 30 seconds. Now add in salt and turmeric powder and hing and fry for 10 seconds. Add lemon juice in and mix well. Immediately add cooked rice in and mix well. Stir until everything is heated through.

MUTTON BIRIYANI

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MUTTON BIRIYANI Ingredients For Mutton/Lamb Mutton/Lamb- 1 kg Oil-2 tablespoons Onions thinly sliced- 3 big Turmeric powder- 1/4 teaspoon Green Chillies- 13 ground to a fine paste (you can adjust according to your heat tolerance) Ginger- Garlice paste- 3 tablespoons Tomatoes thinly sliced- 3 big Lime juice of 3 limes Coriander leaves- 1/4 cup Mint leaves- few tablespoons (Optional) Garam Masala Powder- 3/4 teaspoon Salt to taste Few pinches of Garam Masala for garnish For Rice Biryani Rice/Jeerakashaala rice- 3 cups Ghee/ Clarified Butter- 3 tablespoons Cashewnuts-8 Raisins- 1 tablespoon Thinly sliced Onion- 1 Boiled water- 4-1/2 cups Rose water/ Gulab jal- few drops Method Heat a pan/utensil and add ghee. When hot, saute the cashew nuts, raisins and onions separately till they turn golden brown. Drain and keep aside. In the remaining ghee, lightly toast the rice. Add boiled water and salt. Cover with lid and cook on low flame till its 3/4 cooked. In another pan, ...

EGG FRIED RICE

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Egg Fried Rice Ingredients Rice: 2 Cups Basmati rice 3 Cups water 1/2 tbsp oil 2 Eggs 1/2 cup Carrot pieces 1/2 cup Green Beans pieces 1/2 cup chopped Spring onions 1 tbsp minced Garlic or finely chopped Garlic 1 tbsp finely chopped Ginger 4/5 chopped Green Chillies (add more for spicy) 1/4 tbsp Garam masala Salt and pepper to taste 2 tbsp oil 2 tbsp Soya sauce 1 tbsp rice Vinegar Preparation: 1. Cook rice as usual (add 1/2 tbsp oil) on the stove or cooker. Remove from cooker, spread on plate and cool. 2. Add a little oil to a hot frying pan, beat the eggs and stir rapidly to break it up. Remove from pan and keep seperate. 3. Heat oil in the frying pan on high heat. 4. Stir fry Ginger and Garlic.  5. Add Green Chillies, Carrot, Beans pieces and stir fry 1/2 min 6. Add Soya sauce, salt, Spring onions mix well and stir fry, take care that vegetables are not overdone, they should be crisp. 7. Add Cooked rice(Step 1), Fried eggs (Step ...

CHICKEN BIRIYANI FRIED

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Fried Chicken Biriyani Ingredients: For Rice: Basmati Rice- 2 cups Ghee- 1 tbsp Water- 3 cups Salt- to taste Marinating chicken Chicken - 12 pieces Ginger-Garlic paste- 2 tsp Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp Chilly powder- 2 tsp Garam Masala- 1 tsp Lemon juice- 2 tsp Salt- to taste Ingredients for masala Onion- 4 large onions Ginger/Garlic paste- 2tsp Green chilly- 3 chopped Tomatoes chopped- 2 Fried Chicken- 12 pieces Garam Masala- 1tsp coriander powder-1tsp coriander leaves-few Salt- to taste Yogurt- 3tbsp Lemon juice- 1 tsp Ghee- 2tbsp   Preparation  Chicken fry: marinate the ingredients over the chicken and mix well&keep covered atleast 1 hour. Then Take pan heat oil put the marinated chicken &fry well,until it turns light golden on both sides.kept it aside. For rice: boil water in another vessel,add enough salt,apinch of cardamoms,cinnamon, cloves &1sp ghee in to it.cook rice until it is done &drain. For Masala; Heat oil in a pan put onions whe...

EGG BIRIYANI

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Egg Biriyani Ingrediants: Boild egg-5 Basmathi rice-2c Onion-2 Ginger/garlic paste-1tbsp Green chilly-8 Yogurt-1/2c Cashew nut n raisins Biryani masala-4tbsp Cardamom-5 Cinnamon-small piece Cloves-5 Bay leaf-smal piece Water-3c Preparation: Wash te rice n soak it for 30mnts. Heat oil and add all the spices,onion,chilly and ginger garlic paste.Saute till onion turns golden brown.Add cashew nut and raisins.Saute for a while.Add briyani masala.cook few minutes and add yogurt.Add watr and let it boil.Now add rice and cook on a medium flame till rice is done. Marrinate the egg with some ginger garlic paste,chilli powdr, turmeric and corriandr powder and  fry it .Mix it with the rice and serve.

TOMATO RICE

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TOMATO RICE : Ingredients: For rice Basmati Rice - 1 cup Coconut milk-1/2 cup Water-1 cup cloves cinnamon- Cardamom salt Oil For Masala: Tomato -2 Onion -1 Ginger ,Garlic,Greenchilly paste-2 tsp Garam masala-1 tsp turmeric powder- 1 tsp Coriander Powder - 2 tsp Carrot,beans,Greenpeace -1 cup(optional) Onion-1 salt Curry leaves Preparation: Soak ,wash and drain the rice.Heat the oil in a cooker.Add Cardamom,Cloves and Cinnamon to it.Then add the drained rice and stir for a minute.Pour 1 cup of water and half a cup of coconut mil and salt in to it and close the lids.After a wistel switch off it and allow to cool. Masala: Heat oil in a pan add onion and saute till it turns golden brown.Add chopped veg.Then add ginger garalic green chilly paste and curry leaves.Saute again for few seconds.Now add chopped tomato in to it and mash it.Put the turmeric powder ,coriander powder,garam masala and salt.Add enough water to cook the vegi...

Biriyani (In Pressure Cooker)

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Biriyani (In Pressure Cooker) Ingredients Ghee – 3 Tbsp Oil – 3 Tbsp Cinnamon – 2 inch piece Cloves – 4 Cardamom – 4 Bay leaf – 1 large Fennel seeds – 3/4 tsp Onion – 2 big sliced Ginger Garlic paste – 4 tsp Green chilies – 8 to 10 Coriander leaves – handful Mint leaves – handful Tomatoes – 1 big Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp Coriander powder – 1/2 tsp Rice – 2 cups Hot Water – 1 cup Coconut milk – 1 cup Salt to taste Fried cashew nuts, raisins and coriander leaves for garnish METHOD  Wash the rice well under running water till the water is no longer cloudy. Strain and keep aside.  Heat the ghee and the oil on a medium flame. Add the whole spices  bay leaf, cardamom, clove , cinnamon and fennel seeds to the ghee and wait till a nice aroma fills the room. Add the onions and the green chilies and cook till translucent. The chillies you add now will form the spice part of the biryani. If you like heat in your biryani, add more chillies. When...