Yakhni Pulao

As Farah Khan claims, any party at her home is incomplete without this dish, so I was eager to cook it and try her recipe myself.  Must say it is delicious and easy to cook and amazing comfort food!!

Ingredients

• 1/2 kg mutton
• 1/2 kg Basmati rice
• 3 onions sliced
• 3 large potates cut into large cubes
• 250 gms yoghurt whipped
• 3 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
• 5-6 whole Kashmiri red chillies
• 4-5 cardamoms
• 2 inch cinnamon sticks
• 6-7 cloves
• 6-7 black pepper
• 1 teaspoon chilli powder
• Oil or ghee for frying
• Salt to taste

Method

1. Marinate the meat in yoghurt and keep aside.
2. Then fry the onions till golden brown in a cooker or thick bottom pan.
3. Add ginger-garlic paste, whole spices.
4. Fry for a few minutes and then add the potato pieces.
5. Add the marinated meat and let it cook till five whistles in a cooker or 1 hr in a vessel.
6. Let it cool till the cooker lid can be opened.
7. Add the rice and cook for another three whistles.
8. In normal vessel, check meat after one hour, if yet to cook, add some water if required and cook further 20 to 30 mintes.
9. Then add rice, and 3 cups hot water, check seasoning and bring to a boil.
10. Cover, reduce flame and cook till rice is cooked and water is absorbed.
11. Serve with Boondi raita,  Onion & tomato raita or Pineapple raita