Manpasand pullao Recipes

How to Prepare / Make / Cook - Manpasand pullao ?

3 cups Delhi rice, boiled.

1st layer…250 grams each of big black brinjals and tomatoes. 2 medium onions, minced ½ inch piece ginger minced. 50 grams each of blanched and sliced almonds, and cashewnuts. Salt and chilli powder to taste.

2nd layer…plain kheema…see filling for mutton samosas in the chapter entitled Tea-Time Savouries. Besides take 25 grams each of sliced pistachios and raisins.

3rd layer…1 cup cooked dry moong dal, washed. 1 cup boiled green peas. 1 medium onion, minced. ½ inch piece ginger, minced. 1 small tomato, sliced. Handful of coriander leaves. 2 green chillies minced. A couple of sliced mint leaves.

For Garnishing…Thin rings of boiled beetroot, cucumber and tomato. Fingerchips. Silver foil. Hard-boiled eggs, shelled and cut into rings. Big leaves of radish.

Clean the leaves of radish and wipe. Bake the brinjals on coals or gas flame till the skin wrinkles and turns black. Remove skin and mash. Fry onion and ginger till soft. Add tomatoes, salt and turmeric and cook till ghee separates. Then mix in the mashed brinjals and nuts. Cook for a couple of minutes and remove from fire. Heat 1 tblsp. Ghee and put in onion, tomato and ginger and cook till soft. Mix in dal and peas and cook for a couple of minutes. remove and mix in the coriander and mint. Take a large serving plate and cover it completely with radish leaves. Then take a round tin and grease it thoroughly. Now divide the rice into four equal parts. Cover the bottom of the tin evenly with one part of rice, over this put the dal mixture. Cover this with another part of rice and over this put kheema mixed with nuts and raisins. Place another portion of rice on this and on the rice put brinjal mixture. Cover the brinjal with remaining rice nicely. Set aside for 5 minutes. Then place the leaf-covered plate gently over the tin and turn it upside down and then remove the tin very carefully. Cover the rice cake with foil and place on top rings of eggs. Around the rice arrange alternate rings of beetroot, tomato and cucumber and place fingerchips in between the rings to form spikes in between

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