Ghee Rice
Ingredients
Basmati Rice – 1 cup
Onion – 1(medium size)
Ghee – 5 tbsp
Cashew nuts -10
Green Chilli -4
Cardamom -2
Cinnamon – 2 inch
Cloves – 2
Curry leaves -2 sprigs
Mint leaves – a handful
Method
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Cook the rice in a cooker. I used 1.5 cups of water. While cooking the rice, add 1 tbsp ghee, salt, and a 1-inch cinnamon stick.
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Heat a kadai and add 4 tbsp ghee.
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Fry the cashew nuts and keep them aside.
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Deep-fry the onions and keep them aside.
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Add the spices, slit green chillies, curry leaves, and mint leaves together, and sauté until you get a nice aroma.
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Add the cooked rice to the kadai and mix well. (Add salt if required.)
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Garnish with the fried onions and cashew nuts.
Ghee rice is ready to serve!
Spicy Chicken
Ingredients
Chicken -1/2 kg
Oil – 8 tbsp
Onion -2 big
Chilli powder -1tbsp
Kashmiri chilli powder -1tbsp
Coriander powder -1tbsp
Garam masala – 1 tbsp
Jeera- 1/2 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste -2 tbsp
Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp
Lemon-1/2
Ghee -1 tbsp
Curd-4tbsp
Kasoori methi – 1 tbsp
Salt – 1tsp
Method
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Deep-fry the thin onion slices to make fried onions.
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Mix all the ingredients mentioned above with the chicken, along with the fried onions.
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Marinate for at least 2 hours.
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Sauté the marinated mixture in the remaining oil.
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Add salt according to your taste. Cover with a lid and cook for 5 minutes.
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After that, keep sautéing until the oil oozes out.
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Tasty, spicy chicken is ready to serve.
It goes well with ghee rice or chapati.
