Moti Pulao
Moti Pulao is a fragrant rice preparation served with meatball pearls made with chicken, mutton or vegetables.
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.
Recipe Card
| 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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