Bukhari rice (Arabic rice)

1.5 kg chicken (with bones) , season with salt

1 cup

raisins 1.5 cup

1 tbsp butter

1.5 tsp adrak lehsan coarsely chopped

haldi 1/4 tsp

garam masalam (WHOLE)

black pepper coarse

orange food coloring

1 tomato

1 onion

3.5 cups soaked and 1/2 cooked with chopped garlic in skin and ginger (a little).

Heat oil in a big pot, add chopped onion and fry until a bit golden. Add 1 tbsp adrak and 1 tbsp lehsan. Fry and add 1 big bay leaves, 1 big cinnamon, 1.5 tsp white zeera, long,7-8 black pepper,4 green alcochi 1 big elaichi, 1/4 tsp haldi pdr.

Add some more garlic ginger, chicken and tomatoes.Fry and add a little water, cover and cook.

Drain rice. Layer chicken with rice. Add food coloring. Add fried raisins and almonds.The chicken stock should have evaporated. Mix and serve.

Nargisi Kofta Biryani

Boil and 1/2 cook 2-2.5 cups rice rice with shah zeera, choti elaichi, long, dal cheeni and safaid zeera, bay leaves, star anise, black pepper, cinnamon. Drain.

Make a keema(700-800 gms) out of chicken. S/B a paste.

Add cilantro, chopped chili, finely chopped onions, red chili pdr, dhaniya pd, garam masala pdr and garlic ginger paste, zeera pdr (1/4 tsp), Mix well. Everything should be dry. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside. Take some meat and flatte into a round on parchment paper, place egg in the middle and use the paper to shape around egg. Fry until sealed (not fully cooked).

Heat 1/4 tsp oil/ghee.

Masalas:

Red chili pdr, garlic paste, dhaniya pdr, salt, shah zeera, 3 small elaichi, bay leaves, jaifil, javetri and elaichi pdr (a pinch), haldi pdr 1/3 tsp, a little zeera (1/4 tsp). 3 good sized tomatoes.

1 tbsp dhaniya

1/2 tsp red chili pdr

1/2 tsp haldi

3 tomatoes

2 onions fried.

1 bay leaves

3 big elaichi

6-8 kali mirch

1 tsp shah zeera

1/2 white zeera

1 ts garam masala (afterwards)

1/4 tso jaifil, javetri and elaichi pdr

1/4 cup oil

make gravy out of this. Add fried onions which is crushed by hand. Add 1/4 cup yogurt. Add koftas in the gravy and don't stir.

Layer with rice, sprinkle with jaifil, javetri and elaichi pdr and food coloring. Put on dum.