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[Sugarfly]

@Gina

Chicken:

1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon paprika powder
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
salt.

Marinate it overnight or for atleast 3-4 hours. Steam the chicken till it’s cooked and then put it under the ‘grill’ to get the color.

Ruz:

3 tablespoons oil
Egyptian rice 2 cups
Chicken stock 2.5 cups
1 onion finely sliced
1/2 cup chickpea’s
2 carrots grated
1 dried lemon
1 star-anise flower
1 tsp cumin seeds
salt
red chilli powder.
2 tablespoons butter.

Soak the rice, in a seperate pan heat the oil and add-in the onions cook till light brown. Add the carrots, rice and all the spices and the chicken stock as well. Cook till the rice are 3/4 done. Add the butter, lower the flame and cook for another 5-7 mins.

Garnish with fried onions, pinenuts and raisins

Great!! I have had this somewhere. but i thought its another biryani, Haha!!
Btw, i how are egyptian rice? smaller?:S