hi guys welcome back to my channel now the recipe that I'm sharing with you all today is a firm
favorite in every household and it always reaches the dinner tables no matter what the occasion is
whether it's a party Eid celebration or just a general family gathering is my chicken pilau
rice and I'm going to show you exactly how to make this well run through the ingredients quickly then
we'll start cooking so the ingredients you're going to need are 1 cup of oil I've got 1 whole
chicken on the bone which I've had cut into medium pieces I've got 3 cups of basmati rice I've got a
kettle of boiling water which we're going to use as and when we need to I've got one large
only in which I've sliced thinly and 3 fresh tomatoes which I've chopped and the following
spices I've got one and a half tablespoons of salt and 1 tablespoon of coriander powder the same of
cumin seeds I've also got 2 cinnamon sticks and 2 black cardamom pods I've got 1/2 a teaspoon each
of black peppercorns and whole claws I've got 3 bay leaves and a frozen piece of ginger and garlic
and I've got 4 green chilies which I'm going to add right at the end so let's start cooking so
what you want to do first of all is get the pot that you use and to cook in nice and hot and then
straight in with the oil and just let that heat up for a few minutes before we add the spices in
and then straight in with all your whole spices I've just put them into
a plate just to make it easy to put in and we're just gonna fry
these for about 30 seconds and then we can go straight in with the onions
and you won't describe it again until they have a really nice
sort of like dark golden brown color on them and that's gonna take about
10 to 12 minutes and I'll show you exactly how they look like for them
so the onions have been cooking away on that medium heat for about 12 minutes and this is how
this should be looking now it's important guys that you get this stage right because I always
say that the color of the onions dictate the color of the meat and the rice when it's cooked so it's
important that we get this right because this is going to make or break the rice dish because the
color from here transfers onto the meat and the rice and that's what gives it that really nice
sort of light you know brown pilau rice color so just a few more minutes and this will be ready
this is now ready that's the color that you're
looking for so I'm now going to add the tomatoes into this
now adding that smart Levin will stop the onions
from cooking any further and then straight in with the ginger garlic
the salt I'm the coriander powder
turn the gas back up again
and we're going to cook this now until the tomorrow we're stopping
and that's going to take about five to six minutes
so guys this has been cooking away for about five to six minutes and as you can see the
tomatoes have like softened up really nicely and the onions have started to break as well
look how lovely does that look now we can add our chicken into this now which have
obviously washed so I'm going to leave that to cook now for about 25 to 30 minutes I'm going
to be adding water in this very small amount and just cooking it so it doesn't catch at the
bottom so once that's cooked I'll show you how it looks so while the chickens cooking
away guys I'm going to wash and soak my rice so by the time the chickens finished cooking
the rice I'll be ready to be added into it so guys just coming back to check on the chicken
it's been cooking away for about 30 minutes and how lovely is that color that's transferred from
the onions onto the chicken such a nice dark brown color and the onions and tomatoes have
broken down completely and the oil has started to separate and come to the surface so we can
now add the water into this which will make the stock for the rice now but before I do that I'm
just going to turn my oven on on to gas mark 185 now this is for when I actually put the
rice into the event because I like to give them in the oven if you don't have one then you can
use your hop settings and you can give them their but I just feel that the oven gives out an even
distribution of heat and it just cooks the rice a lot better so I'm just going to turn that on now
and we can add the water straight into this so for
three cups of rice I use four cups of water and I'm just using a boil
kettle here and just a standard mod measurement so four cups one two three
four and also at this time I'm going to throw in the green chillies which I've just sliced halfway
up these are just for the picture purposes they just look pretty and they're that they do have
slight bit of heat to them but they're more for decoration purposes and I'm going to wait to bring
this to the boil even though it was a boil kettle it's still will take a couple of minutes to come
up to the boil and then we can add the washed rice into this so I'm just going to turn the gas up now
so this has come to the boil and we can add the rice into this now and then just gently
stir that in like so and we're going to cook this until there's no water left
and this whatsoever so it's completely dry before we actually put it into the oven so
just make sure you keep an eye on this and just keep stirring it occasionally just to
prevent it from sticking at the bottom and just turn your dust to a medium heat
when you're cooking this because you don't want the rice to be stuck at the bottom of the dish
so we're nearly there so now that the water is almost dry we can now put this on them
so I've got a clean dish cloth here which I've just run under the tap and rinsed the excess
water and I'm just going to use that to cover the top off the pot that I'm using I'm going
to turn the gas off now and put that on top like that and that just helps it to steam nicely and
then just bring the sides up all over and I'm going to pop this into the preheated oven which
is at 185 degrees for about 15 minutes and I'll show you how it looks once it's cooked
that's the 15 minute timer going off so it's now
time to take the Bulow out of the oven so let's turn that off
a halt just mind your fingers guys it'll be hot okay
and don't forget everything if this is gonna be hot right we just gently
and carefully remove that popped up to the side
and then I'm just going to use my spatula and just gently bring
all that rice from the bottom to the top wow it smells so so good
the rice is just cooked perfection Wow actually use
one of these because it's a lot easier to bring it
look at that beautiful and it smells are incredible I just
go around and just bring all that rice from the bottom up
the color is just spot-on right guys let me plate this up and tell you exactly how
it looks okay guys I'm going to tuck into this now and tell you exactly how it is
gonna take some meat as well okay
mmm so good mm-hmm that's really good it's packed with full of flavor Wow salt is spa
really good no because I'm holding the plate I'm just gonna have to pick the
meat up like this and to show you just how tender and well it's cooked hmm
perfection on a plate honestly really really tasty do try the recipe out guys I'm sure you're gonna
love it now if you don't already subscribe to my channel then please feel free to do that and don't
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person and prefer a lumpy la rice I also have a recipe for that which I'm going to leave the
link for in the description box below for you to check out so do that and I'm going to leave
you with this I hope you found it helpful till next time take care and happy eating
you