Bihari Boti Pulao

Ingredients:

• Beef one kg (sixteen pieces)
• Ginger Garlic Paste Two tablespoons
• Twenty pieces of green chillies
• Onion two pieces (crushed)
• A tablespoon of poppy seeds
• One cup of yogurt
• A teaspoon of chopped pepper
• Four cardamoms
• A slice of cinnamon
• clove number six
• bay leaf -one
• A teaspoon of cumin
• Half a kilo of rice (soak for thirty minutes)
• Half a cup of oil
• Salt to taste

Method:

• marinate the beef with ginger garlic paste, green chillies, crushed onion, poppy seeds and yogurt for one hour.
• Heat oil, add onion, chopped black pepper, green cardamom, cloves, bay leaf and cumin and cook for 5 to 7 minutes to remove the roughness of onion.
• Then add the marinated beef, cook for two to three minutes, cover and cook for twenty minutes until the beef melts and the oil rises.
• Now add two cups of water and when it starts to boil, add rice
• Add salt (taste salt) if needed
• Let it cook until the water is dry and the rice is three-quarters cooked
• Simmer on low heat for 10 minutes till the rice is ready. Serve with raita