Beriani

Ingredients:

• Chicken, 900 gr
• Poppy seeds, 1 tbs
• Garlic, 1 clove
• Shallots (sliced), 1 cup
• Curry powder, 1 tsp
• Salt, 2 tsp
• Chillies, 2
• Coconut (grated), 1/2
• Ginger, 5 cm piece
• Ghee, 4 tbs
• Cloves, 5
• Cinnamon stick, 1
• Cashew  nuts, 10
• Almonds, 10
• Long grain rice, 450 gr

Preparation:

Cut the chicken in bite size pieces.

Grind together the garlic, ginger,chillies,poppy seeds, cashew nuts and almonds.

Heat up the ghee on a wok and fry the cloves, cinnamon and shallots.

Add in the chicken pieces, salt, ground ingredients and curry powder.

Stir to mix and cook covered for around 10 minutes.

Extract 1-2 cups coconut milk from the coconut.Add in salt.

Add to this the washed rice and cook it.

When the rice has absorbed all the milk, make a well in the center and put the chicken on it.