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MOGHLAI CHICKEN BIRYANI   Serves 4

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Ingredients

• 1 chicken cut into small pieces
• 2 large onions chopped
• 1 Kg basmati rice
• 1 cup of natural yoghurt beaten smooth
• 1 cup of milk
• 1 cup of nuts and raisins
• 1 tsp of black cummin seeds
• a few stalks of mace ground in water
• 1 bunch of corriander leaves chopped
• 2" piece of ginger ground
• 6 red chillies ground
• 6 green chillies ground
• 10 cloves of garlic ground
• 1 heaped tbl spoon of garam masala
• 6 green cardamoms
• 1 cup of ghee
• salt and chilli powder to taste
• A few drops of kewra essence and yellow colouring

Method

1. Wash and soak the rice for 1 hour.
2. Heat the ghee and fry the onions until golden and crisp, remove and keep to one side.
3. To the same ghee add black cummin seeds and all the ground ingredients.
4. Add the chicken, cardamoms, garam masala, salt, chillies, yoghurt, and kewra and enough water to cook chicken and leave a thick gravy.
5. Add rice, milk, nuts and raisin, mace, cover tight and cook on a low heat until the rice is 3/4 cooked.
6. Add fried onions toss lightly and cook until rice is tender.
7. Sprinkle with yellow colouring and serve after 5 minutes.