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 

 

Lau er Moong Daal (Bottle gourd in Split green gram)

My first recipe from my mom's kitchen is a simple but delicious moong dal (lentil) recipe. Moong dal is rich in protein, easy to make, and delectable. So let us prepare this simple dish together through this ageless recipe.

All you need

1. Yellow moong dal (split green gram): 1 and 1/4 cups
2. Bottle gourd: Cut into 1 and a 1/2 inch cubes; about 1 cup
3. Turmeric powder: 1 tsp
4. Whole red chilli: 1
5. Green chilli: 1 split into two halves
6. Whole jeera: 1 tsp
7. Sugar: 1 tsp
8. Salt: 2 taste
9. Water: 3 cups
10. Oil: 2 tbsp

Getting it done

1. Fry the dal in a heated pan without oil until it starts to turn light brown in color.
2. Wash the fried dal and place it in the pressure cooker along with water, turmeric powder, salt, and the pieces of bottle gourd
3. Turn up the flame to the highest setting
4. After the first whistle, simmer the heat, and maintain it for 2-3 minutes
5. Turn the heat off
6. Let the pressure cooker cool down of its own accord
7. Heat a pan (could be a regular wok or a non-stick pan)
8. Heat oil in the pan
9. Add jeera and whole red chilli
10. Once they begin to splutter, add the mixture into the already boiled dal in the pressure cooker
11. Add the green chilli and the sugar
12. Bring the mixture to a boil
13. Adjust the level of water and the quantity of salt as per your personal taste (Tip: The dal tastes better if it is not too watery
14. Turn the heat off, and serve with white rice