Chicken Majbous
Rice cooked in chicken stock
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups Basmati rice
- 1 kg Chicken
- 6 cups Water
- 1/4 cup Rose water with saffron
- 4 nos Cardamom Elakka
- 4 nos Cinnamon Karugapatta
- 4 nos Cloves Grambu
- 4 nos Garlic pods
- Ginger sliced
- 1 nos Onion cut into 4 halves, medium
- 1 tbsp Tandoori powder
- 1 tsp Coriander powder
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder
- Salt As reqd
- 1/2 to Bengal gram Channa dal/Kadalaparippu
- 1 1/2 tbsp Oil
For daqqus(tomato sauce, Grind all these ingredients to get a paste and cook over medium fire for 5 minutes):
- 2 nos Tomato boiled, medium
- 2 nos Green chillies
- Tomato paste A small pack
- 2 nos Garlic pods
Instructions
- Take a large container and add 6 cups water to it.
- Clean the chicken and cut into big pieces and add it to the water.
- Add the onion, ginger, garlic, cloves, cinnamon and cardamom with salt.
- Cook chicken on medium fire.
- Remove chicken from container when cooked and strain the broth.
- Marinate the chicken with tandoori powder(dissolve tandoori powder in 1/4 cup water) and cinnamon powder for about 1/2 hour.
- Take another container and add some oil.
- Add 1 tsp coriander powder to it and saute.
- Immediately, add the soaked rice and fry for few seconds.
- Add the broth and cook over medium fire.
- :- Do not stir rice in between.
- After cooking, sprinkle rose water and saffron on rice surface(soak saffron in1/4 cup of rose water and heat over low fire for few seconds).
- Now either fry chicken in oil till red or bake the chicken in hot oven (250 degree C) till it is red.
- For serving:- 1)Put the rice in a dish.
- Add the cooked channa dal and place chicken over it.
- :- Serve with tomato sauce and green salad.
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