Chicken Rice and Raita for lunch

No excuses for not updating my blog again but here I am, trying to revive the blog again with a very simple and yummy recipe for a lazy weekend lunch. Easy to cook and yummy to eat is what I can guarantee from this recipe, the recipe was shared by one of my colleague 'SG' and I made it for lunch yesterday 'Chicken Rice, cooked with curd and kashmiri mirch powder'. This is quite similar to biryani but compared to biryani it's much easier to cook and as tasty as biryani.

Ingredients:

1. 500 gms chicken
2. 500 gm curd
3. 3 tbsp Kashmiri chilli powder
4. Few strands of safrron
5. Green Cardamom- 5-6
6. 1 stick dalchini (Cinnamon)
7. 2 big onion
8. 1 Tomato (Optional)
9. Bay leaves
10. 1 tbsp garam masala
11. 2.5 cups of good quality basmati  rice
12. Salt to taste

Steps:

• Marinate the chicken with the curd, chilli powder and salt. Cover the marinated chicken and leave it for at least 1 hr.
• Wash the rice and keep it aside for about 15-20 mins.
• Heat a Kadhai and add 2 tbsp of vegetable oil, once it's smoking hot add the bay leaves and sliced onion, fry it it turns golden brown. 
• Add the marinated chicken and cook it on medium flame. Also add the cardamom, dalchini , garam masala and the chopped tomato.
• Stir the chicken every 5 mins and cook for about 25 mins. ( Chicken will get tender since it's marinated in curd)
• Since cooking rice on a Kadhai is not advisable, put the rice in a Rice cooker or a flat bottom pan,   add the saffron strands,  cooked chicken and add 5 cups of water (double the quantity of rice).
• Cook till the rice is done and serve hot with raita.

While it may not taste exactly like Biryani but this is easier to cook and as yummy as biryani. Pictures will follow soon.

Before the month ends

Weekend lunch- Pasta in green pesto sauce and Stir fried chicken

My plan to write at least 3 blog post has gone haywire...thanks to me getting super lazy and the crazy work schedule. Between shifting house, cities, travelling and juggling work I find almost no time for myself, it's sad that m not even able to write even1 blog post a month but before this month ends I had to write this post. I hate this when I find no time to update my blog. 

Couple of weeks back I was bored of eating the same food, so decided to cook something different and the result was Pasta cooked with green pesto sauce and Stir fried chicken cooked with bell peppers and Balsamic sauce. Making pasta was super easy but the chicken was not, I did googled for the recipe and thankfully had all the ingredients. The end result was satisfying but not as good as I had expected it to be, the chicken was not so tender mainly because it was overcooked but next time I will improve on the chicken and make it taste better.