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Chicken Nihari

Chicken stew, very tasty and high in colestrol

Ingredients:
Chicken 1.5 kg
Clarified butter 1 cup heaped
Water 8 cups
All purpose flour ½ cup
Wheat flour ½ cup
Ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp heaped
Salt 2 tsp
Chili powder 3 tsp heaped

For Nihari Spice:
Cinnamon sticks 6 pieces
Black cardamom 6
Green cardamom 12
Black pepper ½ cup
Fennel seeds ½ cup
Poppy seeds ½ cup
Cloves 2 tbsp
Mace 2 tbsp
Dry ginger powder 2 tbsp
Chili powder 4 tbsp


Preparation:
For Nihari Spice:
Finely grind together cinnamon sticks, cardamoms, green cardamoms, black pepper, fennel seeds, roasted gram, poppy seeds, cloves, mace, dry ginger powder and chili powder
Put in an air tight jar and use as required

Mutton Nihari

Stew made from lamb. Also known as Nihari Ghost

Ingredients:
1 kg meat preferably lamb
2 tbsp refined oil
3-4 green cardamom
1 tsp whole cinnamon
2 black cardamoms
2-3 bay leaves
1 tsp turmeric powder
1/4 cup water
1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp garlic
1 tsp onions
3 tbsp yogurt
2 tsp gulab jal
2 tsp garam masala
1/2 tsp nutmeg and cardamom powder
1/2 tsp saffron
salt to taste
few drops of itar
wheat dough for dum
fresh coriander and ginger juliennes and lemon slices – to garnish


Preparation:
Fry the garlic an onion and ground to a paste
Beat the yogurt to a thick paste
Soak the saffron in 2 tea spoon water