PLAIN BIRYANI

PLAIN BIRYANI

Ingredients:
1 cup basmathi rice
2 tbs ghee
1 ½ cups of water
2 tbs of milk
A pinch of white pepper
Salt to taste

2 pips of garlic chopped
1 big onion sliced fine
2 star anise
3 cardamom pods
2 inch cinnamom stick
1 pandan leaf tied in a knot

5 cashew nuts roasted in ghee
6 raisins roasted in ghee
1 tbs fried onions
Few drops of yellow colour

Method:
Wash the basmathi rice and keep aside.
Heat the ghee in a pressure pan.
Add in the star anise, cinnamon stick and cardamom pods.
Let the cinnamon stick uncurl.
Add in the chopped garlic and sauté well.
Add also the sliced onions and sauté well, till the onions
turn little brown.

Add in the basmathi rice, water, milk, salt and pepper powder.
Mix nicely , close the pan and cook for two whistles.
Off the flame and let the steam release by its self.

Open the pressure cooker, gently stir up the rice.
Put few drops of yellow colour here and there.
Gently stir the rice again.
Garnish with the roasted nuts, rasinis and fried onions.
You have a gama gama plain biryani rice.
Serve with kurma or any curry of your choice.