Rice Dishes

Khao Phad Sapparot / Thai Pineapple Chicken Fried Rice

Cook Time :15 Min | Servings : 2 Persons

Fried Rice will be cooked at least once a week in a typical Thai home. Usually fried rice combination will be made on the fly with the ingredients available at hand. Also, fried rice is easy to make with the left over rice and perfectly suited for parties of all sort.
Thai Curry paste can be bought in stores and refrigerated, since I didn’t have it, I made the curry paste myself. I also made my own combination of veggies and meat. Instead of Chicken, shrimp can also be used or it can be cooked only with vegetables.
When it’s this easy to make at home, who says no to try it out !!!

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Mutton Biryani / Aatu Kari Biryani

Cook Time : 50 Min | Servings : 2 Persons

Say Kongunadu style Mutton biryani. Well, not exactly but this is how all type of biriyani’s are cooked at my home since I remember. But the marination part has never been done, since I get tough meat here I started marinating. Meat tenderizer can also be added while marinating, but I skipped that step.
Hmm… Sunday with biriyani cooked at home for lunch, who would say no. I normally skip breakfast on Sundays and I start counting the minutes as soon as my mom starts preparing. The aroma spreads the house makes u to feel more hungry. When my mom says it’s done, yes that’s the moment I have been waiting for and I eat more than usual. I should say biryani with some non-veg gravy and raitha is the great combo I have ever had.

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Prawn Biryani / Shrimp Biryani

An easy Eral Biryani from Tamilnadu !!

Prawn Biryani / Shrimp Biryani

Author: Sashi

Prep time: 20 mins

Cook time: 20 mins

Total time: 40 mins

Serves: 2

Ingredients

Fresh or Frozen Shrimp ( Medium Sized ) – 15 no
Basmati Rice/ Jeera Samba Rice – 1 1/2 cup
Oil – 2 tsp
Bay Leaves – 3 no
Cloves – 2 no
Cinnamon – 1 inch
Cardamom – 2 no
Star Anise – 1 no
Onion – 1 ( Medium )
Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tsp
Tomatoes – 2 no
Green Chili – 4 no
Turmeric – 1/4 tsp
Biriyani Masala Powder – 1 tsp ( optional )
Coriander leaves – 3 tbsp
Mint leaves – 3 tbsp
Ghee – 1 tsp ( optional )
Cashew – 5 no ( optional )
Salt – to taste
Water – 3 cup
Yogurt – 3 tsp
Coconut Milk – 1 cup ( optional )

Instructions

PREP:

Soak rice for 30 min, wash it thoroughly and drain the water. Clean the shrimp, remove tails, head and devein, wash thoroughly. Chop Onion, tomato, coriander leaves and mint leaves. Slit open green chili. Grind ginger and garlic paste.

COOKING:

In a pressure cooker add oil. When hot, add Bay Leaves, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom and star anise. Add the chopped Onion immediately and 1/4 tsp of salt. When the onion turns brown, add the ginger garlic pate. Fry this till raw smell leaves, approximately 3 min in medium flame. Stir often to avoid the burn. Add the green chili, mint & coriander leaves and fry for 1 min. Add chopped tomatoes and cook till it becomes gravy.
Add the Shrimp and fry for until it’s cooked in the oil. Water released from the shrimp is good enough to cook it. Add the turmeric, biryani masala powder, yogurt, coconut milk and water. Add the rice and mix well for 2 min in Medium flame. Check for salt. Add ghee and mix well.
Close the cooker lid and pressure cook for 2 whistles and reduce the flame to the lowest setting and allow it to stay for 30 min. Garnish with extra coriander leaves and add cashew nuts.

Notes

Add other spices like nutmeg, rose petals to get extra flavor.[br]Over cook the shrimp would turn it rubbery.[br]Simmer the flame at the end to make the fluffy biryani.

Egg Masala Fried Rice / Muttai Fried rice

A Biryani like Egg Fried Rice recipe. I had it at my in-law’s place, I liked it very much and got this recipe from my Mother-in-law. For my surprise, recipe with very less ingredients, it tastes really good.

Egg Fried Rice/ Muttai Fried rice
When I wanted to prepare something really tasty and with less work, this helped me on many of my weekends. My words aren’t enough to describe it’s taste, try it our you will know it.

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Indo Chinese Chicken Fried Rice

A simple and tasty Chicken Fried Rice which tastes alike restaurant Chinese Fried Rice !!! But I skipped the Ajinomoto. If you like it you can add that. Any vegetables and meat of your choice can be added.

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