Pakistani
Chicken Yakhni Pulao
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Tie the coriander seeds, peppercorns, fennel seeds, star anise, half the cloves and half the cardamom in a piece of muslin to make the yakhni bundle.
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Simmer the chicken with the water, the spice bundle, half the onion and the salt for 25 minutes. Lift the chicken out and strain the stock: you need exactly 4 cups, so top it up or boil it down.
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Rinse the rice until the water runs clear and soak it 30 minutes, then drain.
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Heat the ghee, fry the remaining sliced onion until golden, add the ginger garlic paste, the rest of the whole spices and the cumin, then return the chicken and sear 5 minutes.
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Stir in the whisked yogurt and cook 3 minutes, then add the drained rice and fold once, gently, so the grains do not break.
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Pour in the 4 cups of hot yakhni, taste for salt, and boil uncovered until the liquid is level with the rice. Add the slit green chilies, cover tightly, and steam on the lowest heat 15 minutes. Rest 10 minutes before opening.
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Serve it with
A Pakistani dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Yakhni Pulao, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Yakhni Pulao carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Aloo Anday (Potato and Egg Bhujia) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 600 kcal
- Protein
- 25 g
- Carbs
- 65 g
- Fat
- 27 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 380 mg
- Saturated fat
- 9 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chicken Yakhni Pulao takes about 60 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish. It also turns up at Eid.
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