Yaknee Pulao

This is a one-pot dish, which is extremely simple to make, tastes awesome, and is always a hit! This dish used to be originally prepared at my home by my dad, but I will still feature it in my mom's recipe list, as it is one of the parents after all!

So let's get started!


All you need

• Rice of your choice, uncooked: 1. 5 cups

 

• Chicken (boneless or with bone): 300g, chopped into 2 inch pieces

 

• Water: 2.5 cups

 

• Oil: 4-5 tbsp
• Salt: 2 tsp

 

• Cinnamon: 2 sticks
• Cardamom: 5-6
• Cloves: 4-5
• Black peppercorn: 3-4
• Bay leaf: 1

 

 Getting it done

• Soak the rice for 1 hour
• Add the water in a pressure cooker, and place it on a gas stove

 

• Add the washed cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, black peppercorn, and bay leaf 

 

• Add the raw chicken pieces thoroughly washed

 

• Add a pinch of salt
• Cover the cooker, and turn on the stove
• After the first whistle, simmer the cooker for 5 minutes 
• Once the cooker has cooled down, separate the chicken and the spiced water

 

 

 

• Wash and dry the pressure cooker
• Heat the oil in the cooker

 

• Drain the water from the soaked rice

 

• Add the chicken, and shallow fry for 3-4 minutes 

 

• Remove the chicken

 

• Add the rice to the same cooker, and shallow fry it for 2-3 minutes in the same oil 

 

• Add the fried chicken back to the cooker

 

• Add the remaining salt
• Add the previously cooked spiced water 

 

• Cover the cooker
• After the first whistle, simmer for 4 minutes
• Once the cooker has cooled down, remove the lid, and mix the final dish with a serving spoon
• Serve hot with any kind of gravy