Moti Pulao is a fragrant rice preparation served with meatball pearls made with chicken, mutton or vegetables.  In this recipe, long-grain rice is cooked in traditional Indian spices and ghee or clarified butter and topped with chicken meatballs wrapped in edible silver dust.

 

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Ingredients Quantity
Chicken mince 200 gm
Green peas 100 gm
Ghee 3 tbsp
Cloves 4-5 pcs
Cinnamon stick 1
Green cardamom 4-5 pcs
Cumin seeds 1 tbsp
Bay leaves 2 pcs
Onion sliced 2
Chicken stock 400 ml
Long grain rice 200 gm
Ginger & garlic paste 2 tbsp
Garam masala powder 2 tsp
Salt To taste
Green chillies 2 sliced
Coriander fresh, chopped 2 tbsp
Fresh mint, chopped 2 tbsp
Fried onion As required
Oil To fry

Method of Preparation

  • Heat ghee in a deep pan, add cumin seeds, cloves, green cardamoms and bay leaves and sauté for one minute. Add sliced onion and sauté until it brown.
  • Add ginger and garlic paste cook it. Add 1 tsp garam masala powder, soaked rice and mix it well.
  • Add 400 ml chicken stock salt, green peas mix well. Cover it and let it cook until the rice is done.
  • Grind chicken mince with ginger and garlic paste, green chillies, coriander leaves, mint leaves, garam masala powder, salt and fried onion. Grind it well into a fine paste.
  • Make small balls of minced and deep fry it, until golden brown.
  • Add meatballs in rice and cook it for two minutes.
  • Before serving removed 4 to 5 cooked meatballs from rice. Dust it with powdered silver. Placed them on plated pulao and add some fried onion.

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Suunil Murudkar 

Assistant Chef Instructor, ICCA Dubai, and a serious food enthusiast.

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