SPICY CHICKEN RICE (a perfect one pot wonder for birthday feast)..

Ingredients

• 500 gm curry cut chicken on the
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 1 cup curd
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1.5 tsp garlic paste
• 1 tsp ginger paste
• 1/2 tsp haldi powder
• 1 tsp red chilli powder
• 2 tsp dhania powder
• 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
• 4 tbsp oil for frying
• 2 cup long grain basmati rice
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp oil
• 2 tbsp oil
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 tejpatta
• 2 laung
• 2 choti elaichi
• 1 dalchini
• 1 star anise
• 1 cup sliced onion
• 1 tsp minced garlic
• 1 tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
• 10 fried kaju
• 20 fried kishmish
• 1 tbsp browned onion
• 1 tbsp chopped dhania patta

Steps

1. For Chicken….Take a mixing bowl, add salt & lemon juice, mix it well, keep aside for 15 minutes. Discard the water, add all the given ingredients of marination, mix it well, keep it in the fridge for 2 hours.
2. Now take a wok, add 4 tbsp oil, heat it, in goes marinated Chicken, stir fry it for 30 sec. Cook it covered on low flame until almost cooked, keep aside.
3. For Rice…. Wash & soak rice for 1 hr, strain it, add in a deep bottom pan, in goes, good amount of water, salt & oil, boil it, cook it until 80% cooked, strain it, keep aside.
4. For Assembling…. Take a wok or deep bottom pan, add oil & butter, heat it. In goes tejpatta, dalchini, star anise, laung & choti elaichi, saute it for 30 sec.
5. Add in onion, stir fry it until light brown.
6. In goes garlic, saute it until rawness is released.
7. Now add cooked rice, sprinkle very lil salt if u require, mix it well. Add in kashmiri red chilli powder & garam masala powder, stir fry it for a minute.
8. Add in cooked chicken, mix it well.
9. Sprinkle very lil water, cook it covered on low flame for 5 minutes. Turn off the flame, open the lid after 10 minutes, take out in a serving dish, garnish it with all the garnishing elements…