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Ingredients: Raw chicken - 2 pounds Yogurt lime juice basmati rice - 2 cups ginger garlic paste whole spices for marination - cloves, bay leaves, shajeera, elaichi, whole pepper corn Spices for marination - Red chilli powder, salt, pepper powder, cumin powder, garam masala, turmeric powder, jeera powder  Fresh corriander & mint leaves Onions Food color Method of preparation: 1. Marinate chicken with oil, yogurt, lime juice, ginger garlic paste, all the ground and whole spices. Leave this marinade overnight in the refrigerator . Use a lot of yogurt and oil, this is the base for the biryani. 2. Soak basmati rice in water for half an hour. Half-boil rice in about 4 cups of water with a few whole spices, salt and oil. Make sure rice is not too over boiled, each rice grain should be a little hard. Drain out all the water. 3. Fry onions, mint and coriander leaves in a lot of oil.  4. Take a tray and line it with oil. Arrange chicken in the bottom layer, then a ...

Here's Another day in my life filled with nostalgia. A major Hindu festival today - Dassera....miss all the fun, food n family.... Dassera is somehow different from the other festivals. Everything about this festival seems exxagerated - food, drinking, merriment all around....it just has a different feel! I spent almost every single dassera of my life in my uncle's house, in a town called Nalgonda. We would go stay with them for like 10 days during this time of year, dassera was just an excuse :). My uncle bought me new clothes every year for the longest time I've known. Bathkamma is another festival that I always used to look forward to....esp dressin up, I mean really dressing up!!! Was an 'all female' festival....another part!Dress up, go to the temple, tons of gossip!!! Yayy!!! And my bathkamma today....hmmm....where do I even start? It was just I, me, myself n my hubby catching some pics... Life changed soooo much! I miss all the great times I had back hom...