How to Cook Tasty Low-Calorie Yakhni Pulao

Low-Calorie Yakhni Pulao.

You can cook Low-Calorie Yakhni Pulao using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Low-Calorie Yakhni Pulao

1. Prepare 200 grams of chicken (curry cut).
2. You need 100 grams of chicken (bones).
3. It's 1/2 cup of brown basmati rice, soaked for 30 mins.
4. You need 2 tbsp of ghee.
5. Prepare 1/2 inch of ginger (crushed).
6. Prepare 3 cloves of garlic (crushed).
7. You need 1/2 cup of onion (sliced).
8. It's 2 of green chilies (slit).
9. It's 2 of bay leaf.
10. You need 2 no ½ inch of cinnamon.
11. Prepare 1 of black cardamom.
12. It's 2 of green cardamom.
13. You need 4 of peppercorn.
14. You need 5 of cloves.
15. Prepare 1 tbsp of ginger garlic paste.
16. You need 1 tsp of salt.
17. Prepare 1/2 cup of curd.
18. It's 2-3 drops of kewra essence.
19. You need 1/2 tsp of black pepper powder.

Low-Calorie Yakhni Pulao step by step

1. Heat 1 tsp ghee and add 1 cinnamon stick, black cardamom, 1 bay leaf, peppercorn, 2 cloves, crushed ginger garlic, and let them crackle..
2. Add the chicken bones and 1/2 tsp salt and saute till the chicken gets brown..
3. Add 4 cups water and cook for about an hour on slow fame..
4. Once done strain the stock and keep aside..
5. In another pot heat the remaining ghee and add the remaining whole spices and let them crackle..
6. Add onions and green chilies and fry till they turn translucent..
7. Add ginger garlic paste and saute till the raw aroma goes away. Add chicken with pepper powder, salt and saute for 5 mins..
8. Add curd and kewra essence, mix and cook till oil separates. Add the stock and let it come to a boil..
9. Add the rice and mix, cover and cook till the rice and chicken is cooked..