I prepared this one for my uncle who had come to our place for a few days and was leaving the next day.Office work was light that day and after I had come back home the dish kept me pretty much occupied for the rest of the evening. I had prepared this Pulao on a Dum, and that enhanced the flavours even more.
Serves: 3-4
Preparation Time: 30 mins
Cooking Time: 1 hr
High Level Procedure
- Prepare a Prawn Curry
- Prepare 80% Boiled Rice and let us dry in the open air
- Layer the Prawns from the curry with the rice on a dum for 30 mins.
Preparing the prawn curry
Ingredients:
- Prawn: 400 gms of Bagda Chingri.Coat the chingri with 1 tsp turmeric powder and salt according to taste. Keep aside for 12-14 mins.Then fry the prawn in vegetable oil and let them rest on a tissue.Onion:2 medium sized(100 gms).Made into a fine paste
- Ginger Paste:1 tbsp
- Garlic Paste:1 tbsp
- Tomato: 1 medium sized. Made into a fine paste.
- Vegetable Oil: 4 tbsp
- Sugar:1 tbsp
- Salt: To taste
- Whole Spices
- Green Cardamon:3-4
- Cinnamon Stick:One 1 inch stick.
- Cloves:3-4
- Powdered Spices
- Turmeric Powder:1 tsp for coating the
- Coriander Powder:1.5 tsp
Procedure:
- Heat the vegetable oil in a kadai.
- Once the oil gets hot, add the whole spices.
- When the aroma of the whole spices evolve, add the ginger-garlic paste.
- Turn the heat to low and stir the ginger-garlic paste for a minute.
- Then add the onion paste.
- The onion paste adds moisture to the kadai.So increase the heat to medium and mix the ingredients till the point the onion turns brownish in colour.
- Then add the tomato paste,powdered spices,sugar and salt to taste.
- After stirring for 8-10 mins under medium heat, add the fried prawns.
- Turn the heat to low and let the prawns cook for 15 mins.
- Remove the curry and keep it aside.
Layering the Prawn and Rice:
Ingredients:
- Fried Brown Onion Slices:7-8 tbsp
- Melted Ghee: 4 tbsp
- Parboiled Rice
- Prawn Curry
Procedure:
- Put a layer of the rice on a handi.
- Add some of the prawns.
- Sprinkle some melted ghee and fried brown onions.
- Repeat the process until the rice and prawns are exhausted.
- Cover the handi and seal it.
- Cook it over low fire for 40 mins.
Remove the cover and serve hot!
