Mutton / chicken kheema khichdi recipe

Ingredients

• 2 cups Basmati Rice
• 1 cup green gram dal
• 1 cup curd
• 1/2 kilo kheema / minced meat
• 1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
• 1 teaspoon green chilli paste
• 2 onions ground to a paste
• 1 cup tomato puree
• 1 teaspoon pepper corns
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 4 cloves
• 2 cinnamon,
• 1 cardamom, green and black each
• salt to taste
• 1/2 cup ghee

For Garnishing:

• 2  tablespoons  finely chopped and fried paneer,
• 6-8 roasted cashewnuts

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Preparation

• Mix the minced meat with the ginger garlic paste, chilli paste, tomato puree, onion paste, curd with salt to taste Keep aside for half an hour.
• Heat oil in a pan, saute the minced meat mixture till it starts changing colour. Cover and cook till it is done.
• Meanwhile, wash and soak the rice and the dal separately. Pressure Cook with 3 cups of water for 2 whistles.
• Crush all the spices together to a coarse powder. Heat the ghee, put in the spices, cooked dal and rice and the salt to taste and mix well.
• Do remember that you had already added salt to the minced meat.
• Take a flat dish, spread layers of rice and minced meat, garnish with finely chopped and fried paneer and cashewnuts.