Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Briyani rice -pulao

 This simple yet special pulao rice is best serve when you don't have much time to cook for your quest.


Ingredients
10 cups of water
2 cups basmati rice
6 tbsp ghee
2 tsp salt
3 cardamom
1 tsp black pepper
1 cinnamon
1 bay leaf
3 cloves
yellow food colouring
a handful chopped fresh coriander
a handful fried onion
a handful processed peas and cashew nuts  (fried in ghee)

1. wash the basmati rice and soak for a couple of hours.
2 Heat ghee in a pot and add the bay leaf, cloves, cardamom,black pepper and fry for another 2 min.
3.Put water , salt and let it boil.
4.Once boiling add in the rice and put medium heat . Please don't attempt to leave the
 kitchen , you have to watch over the rice and    to know if it is cooked just take one grain and bite it ,if it is tender you rice is cook .
5. close the lid and drain the water .
6. take one bowl put a few drop of food colouring and put  ( 6 tbsp cooked rice) mix well .
7. In the rice pot , sprinkle the coriander, fried onion,peas and cahew nut and the coloured rice .


Monday, December 17, 2012

TRIP TO BALI

During school holiday we spend 5 days in the beautiful island of Bali. We stayed in HardRock hotel Kuta Beach .