Jinga No Palao

Recipe Ingredients

4		Prawns - shelled, deveined
7		Green chillies - up to 8
4		Onions - sliced finely, up to 5
3		Cinnamon - up to 4
9		Cardamoms - up to 10
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Turmeric
2		Tomatoes - skinned and choppcd, up to 4
2 teaspoons	10ml	Salt
6		Garlic - ground, up to 8
1 lb	454g / 16oz	Basmati rice - soak in water
		For atleast 1 hour
10		-- up to 12
1 teaspoon	5ml	Cummin seed
1 teaspoon	5ml	Sugar - up to 2
		Saffron for colouring
		Coriander leaves

Recipe Instructions

METHOD:

Fry the onions golden brown. Remove about 2 onions for later use. In the remaining onions, add in chopped coriander, green chillies, garlic and turmeric allowing it to cook for a few minutes. Add in chopped tomatoes, cook till pulpy, and then add in prawns with about 4 cups of water.

When the prawns are nearly done, add chilli powder and sugar and allow to simmer till about 1/2 cup of gravy is remaining.

In the meantime, boil the rice with salt, removing when half done. Drain off the water and cool.

In a pan put the reserved fried onions with oil, on a slow fire and add in cinnamon sticks, cloves, cardamom and cummin seed which have been pounded slightly. Allow to simmer for a few minutes and remove off the fire. In a large pan, spread half the rice and layer with prawns, fried onions with garam masala. prawn gravy and then lastly another layer of rice which has been infused with saffron, topping it with very hot oil. Cover the pan and cook on a low fire for atleast 10 minutes. Mix all the palao together, cover and cook till rice is done

Recipes by Jeroo Mehta

Source:
Imran Chaudhary - Queensland, Australia

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