Recipe for Biryani

Hello Kenyan mama - Do you cook at home or let your DM handle that? "I love cooking and never let he cook for me unless she really has to..." - says our reader Salome. Today she share her Biryani Recipe she found on FB.

Ingredients

1 kg of rice
1/2kg of meat / chicken
4 big onions
3 big tomatoes
Tomato paste
1 big piece of ginger (fresh)
5 pieces of garlic
2 cups of sour milk (maziwa lala)
5 medium size potatoes
Pilau masala
Salt to taste

Instructions

The rice
Make the rice as usual and before it dries up completely add orange food color then cover and let it cook and we are done with the rice

The curry – if you want to get a good result you have to prepare the mixture in advance in order to marinate.
Grind the ginger and garlic till they are soft and add 3 teaspoon of pilau masala

Put the mixture in a sufuria and add the meat (beef or Chicken), 4 table spoon full of tomato paste & the chopped tomatoes & the lala milk and let it stay for like 4 to 5 hrs (for overnight in the fridge)

When ready to cook: Cut the onions into rings and deep fry them (yes deep fry like madazi) till they are golden fry and remove them, put them aside then in the same oil deep fry the potatoes which you will have cut into four pieces and also put aside

Fry in a medium sufuria the mixture that has been marinating with a ¾ cap of oil (same oil that was used for the onions) in law heat to let the meat cook nicely and add salt to taste, stir the food from time to time till the whole mixture cook nicely and you will now this when u see the oil is separating from the rest of the food now add the onions and the potatoes (cooked)

 Remove the excess oil and add it to the rice for better taste and serve with a lot of love to your family

Here is a link  to other Biryani recipes I have made

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-biryani/

Please share your favorite meals.