Kabooli Recipe

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Hyderabadi Kabooli Dish

Ingredients:

250 gms Basmati rice
150 gms fresh tender green gram
2 tsp adrak-lasan paste
½ cup beaten curd
2 small onions, grated
2 pinches shahijeera
4 lavang
2 elaichi
A handful of kothmir and pudina, chopped
3 onions, sliced
1 cup coconut milk
Juice of one lemon
2½ tbsp refined oil
Salt to taste

Method:

Boil the green gram with a pinch of salt till tender, then drain.

Heat 1½ tablespoons oil, add the grated onion, adrak-lasan paste and fry till the oil separates. Add the beaten curd, green chillies, ½ of the coriander and mint leaves and fry till oil separates. Add the green gram and salt to taste and set aside.

Heat remaining oil, add shahijeera, dalchini, lavang, elaichi and allow to splutter. Add the rice, fry a little, add warm water coconut, milk, salt to taste and cook till rice is done.

Place the cooked green gram over the rice and sprinkle lemon juice and fried onion. Cover tightly and keep over dum for 10 minutes.

Mix and serve hot.

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