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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Indian Subcontinent >> Pakistani

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Mix all ingredients for yakhni. Bring them to a boil & let them boil on medium high heat for 20 minutes or till the chicken gets tender. Strain the yakhni only leaving the chicken in it. | 2. In a pan heat oil. Add sliced onions & fry the onions till they turn golden brown. Take 1/4 out of it & keep aside. | 3. Now add cumin seeds (zeera), ginger garlic paste, tomatoes, salt, red chilly powder & coriander powder to the remaining fried onions & stir fry for 3 minutes. | 4. Next add yogurt, garam masala and green cardamom (choti elaichi). Cook on medium high heat till the tomatoes get tender. | 5. Add anise seed (saunf) & chicken pieces to the masala & let it simmer for another 2 minutes. | 6. Finally pour the masala in the yakhni, already back in the cooking pot. Add rice & cook it uncovered on high heat for 5 minutes or till the water dries up. | 7. Sprinkle the fried onions & mint leaves. Close the pot by tightly covering the pot with foil just where the lid goes making sure no steam passes out. Cook on low heat for 15 minutes or till the rice is done. | 8. Enjoy with chutney or cucember raita. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
basmati rice	2	cups		-	-	-	-
chicken	1		cut cut	-	-	-	-
water	3	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
onion	1/2		peeled cut	22.0	5.1370000000000005	0.605	0.055
clove	1/2	teaspoon		2.877	0.6881	0.0627	0.1365
black peppercorn	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
black cardamom pod	2			-	-	-	-
cinnamon	2			-	-	-	-
bay leaf	1			-	-	-	-
garlic clove	6			-	-	-	-
ginger	2	inches		-	-	-	-
coriander seed	1	teaspoon		5.364	0.9898	0.2227	0.3199
nutmeg	1	pinch	ground	0.7219	0.0678	0.008	0.0499
anise	1/4	teaspoon		1.7693	0.2626	0.0924	0.0835
oil	1/4	cup		448.95	0.0	0.1435	50.9835
onion	1/4		sliced	22.0	5.1370000000000005	0.605	0.055
cumin seed	1	teaspoon		7.875	0.929	0.374	0.4677
ginger garlic paste	1 1/2	1/2		-	-	-	-
tomato	1/2		chopped	11.07	2.3924	0.5412	0.12300000000000001
yogurt	1/2	cup		74.725	5.7085	4.2508	3.9812
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
red chili powder	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
coriander powder	1/2	teaspoon		5.364	0.9898	0.2227	0.3199
garam masala powder	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
green cardamom	2			-	-	-	-
	1 1/2	1/2	ground	-	-	-	-
mint leaf	1	tablespoon	chopped	-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.