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Jun13

Kuska / Plain Briyani – How to make Kuska in pressure cooker

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Kuska or Plain Briyani is prepared by cooking long grain/basmathi or jeera rice with all the flavored spices and ingredients used for briyani. This briyani is very special and commonly known as poor man’s Briyani, since it costs very less because no vegetables and no meats are used in the making. Kuska / Plain Briyani is popular in and around Madurai and Virudhunagar. My hubby used say, that he used to have it in all this college functions, but this is the first time I am gave a try at home. I have followed a slight variation in the making, so do check out for perfect color in kuska – CLICK HERE.

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Kuska / Plain Briyani / How to make kuska at home

Kuska / Plain Briyani is mildly spiced, mildly flavored then Briyani, so kids like this a lot. This goes out well with any raita but I prefer onion raita, any curries may be veg or non-veg and a deep fry. I have accompanied it with chicken curry, onion-tomato raita and chicken 65.  Let me share the recipe…

Taking this to Fiesta Friday #176 hosted by Angie@thenovicegardener.

Ingredients:

  • Basmathi / Long-grain / Jeeraga Samba / Jeera rice – 2 ½ cup (1 cup = 160ml)
  • Onions – 2 no’s (medium size)
  • Tomato – 1 no (medium size)
  • Green chillies – 2 nos
  • Ginger-garlic paste – 1 ½ tbsp or Ginger (1”inch stick) – 1 no and Garlic – 5 cloves
  • Cinnamon (1 “inch stick) – 1 no
  • Cloves – 4 no’s
  • Star Anise – 2 no’s
  • Stone flower / Kalpasi – 3 no’s
  • Cardamom – 2 no’s
  • Bay leaf – 1 no
  • Fennel seeds / Sombu – 2 tsp
  • Curd / Yogurt – 1 cup
  • Coconut milk – 1 cup
  • Mint + Coriander leaves – 1 cup
  • Salt to taste
  • Ghee / Clarified butter – 1 ½ tbsp
  • Oil – 1 ½ tbsp

Making of Kuska rice / Kuska Briyani / Plain Briyani –

Preparation:

  • Peel and thinly slice the onions and keep it aside.
  • Finely chop the tomatoes and keep it aside. Slit the green chillies and keep it aside.
  • Rinse and finely chop the mint + coriander leaves and keep it aside.
  • Heat ghee/clarified butter and oil in a pressure cooker, add the bay leaf, followed by flavored spices and wait until they crackle.
  • Add onions, green chillies and ginger-garlic paste, cook until the onions turn transparent.
  • Add the mint and coriander leaves, cook until they turn dark green in color.
  • Add the tomatoes and cook until they turn soft.
  • Pour the curd/yogurt, cook until the oil starts floating on the top.
  • Pour the coconut milk and bring it to boil.
  • Meanwhile clean the rice and add the rice followed by water to the pressure-cooker, add required amount of salt.
  • Pressure-cook for 3 whistles.
  • Remove the lid when the pressure releases.
Flavored spices
With onions and green chillies
With coriander and mint leaves
with ginger-garlic paste
with curd/yogurt
Getting cooked
with coconut milk
Getting boiled
with rice
Kuska / Plain Briyani / How to make kuska at home

Gently give a stir and serve hot.

Mar14

Fish Rice Recipe /Meen Sadham / How to make Meen Soru

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I just loved to try different food, so when it comes to lunch, I got to see few pieces of fish lying in my refrigerator and I am sure that it would not be enough for my family to prepare a curry or fry. Next to that found some dill leaves lying in the refrigerator, recently I have joined to master class with Chef Gordon Ramsay and I got remember that he told – Dill leaves goes out well with Fish. As a resulted thought of combining both fish and dill leaves together as a recipe, which resulted in my fish rice.

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Fish rice was delicious, aromatic with the strongly flavored dill leaves. Fish with little bones are highly recommended for this recipe, whereas it consumes time when there more bones. A perfect rice for kids, where fish comes without bones. Give a try, let me share the recipe…

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Fish Rice / Meen Sadham

Ingredients:

  • Fish pieces – 6 nos (250 gm)
  • Dill leaves – 5 stalks
  • Steamed Rice – 2 ½ cups
  • Fennel seeds – ¼ tsp
  • Onion – 1 no
  • Garlic – 6 to 8 cloves
  • Cumin powder – 1 tsp
  • Pepper powder – 1 tsp
  • Lemon juice – 1 tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Olive oil – 2 tbsp
Fish getting boiled
After getting boiled
Fish crumbled to pieces
With olive oil, fennel seeds, onions and garlic
With dill leaves
With crumbled fish
Getting cooked
With pepper powder and garam masala
With steamed rice
Getting cooked
Fish Rice / Meen Sadham

Preparation:

  • Clean the fish and keep it aside.
  • Heat 2 cups of water in a heavy bottomed vessel, add the fish pieces once the water starts boiling.
  • Peel and finely chop the onions and garlic into pieces, keep it aside.
  • Once the fish is boiled, drain the water and wait until the fish comes to room temperature.
  • Take of the skin, carefully remove the bones and crumble the fish, keep it aside.
  • Heat oil in a kadai, add the fennel seeds followed by onion and garlic, cook until they turn golden brown color in color.
  • Add the crumbled fish, followed by pepper powder, cumin powder and salt, cook until the raw smell goes off.
  • Pluck the dill leaves from the stalk, finely chop them and sprinkle half the quantity of it to the fish.
  • Add the rice, salt if required for rice and stir it well.
  • Make sure that the rice becomes dry and blends well with fish.
  • Sprinkle the leftover dill leaves, give a stir and remove it from fire.

Serve hot with any gravy. You can pair this fish rice with coconut prawn curry.

Feb22

Chicken Fried Rice / Restaurant Style Chicken Fried Rice

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Fried rice is one of the popular dish, it can be prepared in a street food and also the other ways. Commonly we like to have fried rice from a street vendor, it tastes different and good. We use to have it at least once in two months, but for almost a year, the shop was closed. And so, thought of preparing it at home and the taste was too good and more similar to that one. Also, this is a perfect for lunch box. Let me share the recipe…

Taking this to Fiesta Friday #160 hosted by Angie@thenovicegardener.

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Chicken fried rice / Restaurant Style Chicken Fried Rice

Ingredients:

  • Chicken – 200 gm
  • Steamed rice – 1 ½ cups
  • Capsicum (yellow, green, red) – ¼ cup
  • Carrot – ¼ cup
  • Cabbage – ¼ cup
  • Spring onions – 4 stalks
  • Black pepper powder – 2 tsp
  • Garlic – 5 cloves
  • Eggs – 2 nos
  • Soy sauce – 2 tbsp
  • Tomato sauce – 2 tbsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil – 2 ½ tbsp

Making of Chicken Fried Rice –

Preparation:

  • Clean and finely chop the chicken into pieces.
  • Clean and finely chop the capsicum, cabbage and spring onions, peel and finely chop the carrot, garlic.
  • Heat oil in a kadai, add garlic, carrot, cabbage and capsicum, cook for few mins or until the vegetables are cooked.
  • Add chicken pieces followed by salt and pepper powder and cook for few mins or until the chicken turns pale white in color.
  • Pour tomato sauce and soy sauce and cook for a min or until the raw smell goes off.
  • Add spring onions and cook for few seconds.
  • Break the eggs, stir it well, cook for few seconds (the egg should not be completely cooked).
  • Add the steamed rice and mix it well, cook in high flame until the rice becomes dry.
  • Sprinkle a handful of spring onions and remove it from fire.
With finely chopped garlic
with vegetables
with chicken pieces
with pepper powder and salt
with spring onions
with eggs
Add rice at this stage
With rice
rice getting fried
with spring onions
Chicken fried rice / Restaurant Style Chicken Fried Rice

Serve it hot with Butter chicken or any gravy.