Name: ARABIAN OUZI RICE / PARDA PULAO / PARDA BIRYANI recipe by Razia Khatoon at BetterButter
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 120 min
Total time: 140 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: Maida 1 cup; Salt to taste; Vegetable oil 5 tbs; yeast 1 tbs; Warm water 1 cup; Rice 300 grms soaked for 20 min in water; Chicken 1/2 kg; onion 1 big sized chopped; Garlic 1 inch size chopped; Ginger 5 nos chopped; Black cardamom 1 piece; black paper 1 tbs; Cinnamon sticks 10 grams; Cloves 6 pieces; 1-2 Bay leaves; Garam masala 1 tbs; Almond 10-12 nos; Green Cardamom 5 nos; Green chilis 5 nos chopped; Frozen matar/peas 1 cup

Instructions

Steps For making Dough
Take a bowl and add 1 cup of warm water,yeast,and 2 tbs of Maida and mix it
After Mixing it leave it for 10-15 mints so that yeast will be active
After 15 mints the yeast will be active and you will see small bubble on the surface of dough
at this stage add salt to taste,add 2 tbs of vegetable oil
mix it continuously while adding maida slowly slowly and make a smooth dough
then leave it for 20-25 mins
Now till it settles lets prepare biryani for its filling
For this take a pan and add 3 tbs of Vegetable oil and heat it
after oil heats up add 2 nos of bay leaves and the add finely chopped onion,ginger and garlic and mix it and cook it for 1 min
after onion softens a bit add chicken and mix it and cook it for another 1- 2 mins.
then after 2 mins add all the spices 1 black cardamom,1 tbs black paper,salt to taste,10 grams cinnamon sticks,6 no s of cloves,10-12 nos of almond,5 nos of green cardamom,5 chopped chills, 1 tbs garam masala, and cook it for 1 min
After 1 min open the lid and add 1 cup of warm water and cook it again for 1 min
After 1 min add rice which is soaked for 20 min in water and mix it well and cover it and cook it for 10 min in high flame
Now after 10 mins open the lid and add 1 cup of frozen peas/matar and mix it and cook it till rice is 85% cooked
After that close the gas and put the biryani a side to cool down.
Lets go to the Dough we have left it in step 7 .it will be double of its size now.
now take this dough to the kitchen plat form and spread it with a belan like big bread/roti but make it a bit thick.
Now take steel bowl and grease it from inside with vegetable oil and place the flat dough inside the bowl so that its attached to its inner surface
Now fill the biryani we have prepared earlier inside the bowl and cover it by joining the edges of the dough make it like a ball
for baking it you can bake it in a microwave/oven but here i will show you process how to bake it in a pressure cooker
take a pressure cooker and add salt/sand at its base and pre heat it for 5 mins
after preheat place a stand inside the cooker and place the bowl in which we have the dough in it and cover the cooker lid with its whistle and rubber removed
and bake it on the gas for 20 mins on low flame.
after 20 mins remove the lid of cooker and apply vegetable oil on the surface of dough and again cover the lid and cook it for 20 mins in low flame
now after 20 mins the dough will be golden brown in color. leave it for sometime for cooling
after cooling remove the dough in a plate and give a cut to it and hot spicy biryani will come out of it.
now serve it to your dear one .

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