Mint Pulav

Mint Pulav for 2 people:

Ingredients:

Mint - 1 bunch

Green Chillie -5(medium)

Ginger - abour half inch

Garlic - 6

Grind them all together and keep this paste aside.

Oil - 3 tbsp

Cinamon -1, clove -4, somph - 1 tsp, Curry leaves, salt (Accly), any vegetables that could best go along with this rice pulav like cauliflower/carrot/potato - about 1/2 cup, Rice -1 cup.

Preparation:

This is a very easy recipe which could be done within 10 mins (except the cooking time of the rice).

Take a pan , add the oil, add all the dry ingredients first saute it, and add the rest except paste, saute it. Finally add the paste and saute it until the raw smell is gone.

Keep the rice in the rice cooker seperately and add some salt. And now add the contents of the pan to the rice cooker. As simple as that. the process is over.

Mint pulav can be best served with vegetable(carrot/cucumber/onion/jeera) raita.

Chicken Soup

Chicken Soup for 7 to 8 people:
Ingredients :
Onion - 1 (big), Tomato -1(big), Ginger - about 2 inches(juliana), Garlic - about 7(juliana), Green Chillies - 3(slit). Mint/Corriander/CurryLeaves, Cinamon (1), Clove-6, Black Cardomom - 2, Somph - 2 tsp, Egg white - 1(if you like to have egg drop in it), oil - about 3 to4 tbsp

Salt, Turmeric, Chicken - about 4 to 5 pieces pre-cooked , Chicken stock - 20 ounce.
Preparation:
Take a heavy bottomed vessel or a pressure pan prefferably, and first add all the dry ingredients ( Cnamon, Clove, cardomom, Somph) as shown below;

And then, Add the rest of the ingredients like onions, ginger/garlic, tomato, curryleaves/corriander/mint .
Now saute it well untill the raw smell goes off.

Now shred the already cooked chicken into small pieces and add it to the pressure pan. Saute it again for a while. Now add , Salt, turmeric, crushed pepper, and about 20 ounce of chicken stock. And close the lid of the pan and let it pressure cook until a whistle.

Serve the soup real hot.