spicy rice with meat (Tahari)

 This is a non-vegetarian dish, where meat is prepared separately like a curry and then in a big cooking bowl fried rice is prepared like my fried rice recipe posted earlier then meat curry is added to it and covered with a lid with charcoal on top(Dam). But I like this simple method that my mother has taught me. This is one of my favorite dishes. As a combination to this tahari curd chutney is served. Pure Indian ghee is also very good with this hot and spicy tahari.

Ingredients for Tahari:

Meat ½ kg.(500 gms.)

Rice 1 glass

Water 2 glasses

Chopped tomato 1 cup:

Mint leaves 1 cup

Chopped coriander ½ cup

Green chilies 5-6

Fresh lemon 1

Onion finely sliced ½ medium sized

Oil ½ cup

Salt to tase

Fresh ginger-garlic paste 1 tsp.

Whole garam masala: cloves 1, Cardamom 1, cinnamon 1inch, Caraway (shah zeera)

Preparation of  Tahari:

• First in a pressure cooker heat oil and fry sliced onion till light pink in color.
• Then add fresh ginger garlic paste, mint leaves, meat, red chili powder, salt, turmeric, whole garam masala.
• Fry these till the water from the meat is absorbed completely.
• When you leave the meat to absorb the water, wash the rice nicely with water.
• Once the water is absorbed add chopped tomatoes, let it cook for 2 min.
• Then add washed rice to the pressure cooker, add some green chilies.
• Add 2 glasses of water in the pressure cooker.
• Cover the pressure cooker and let it cook up to 3 whistles and then turn of the heat .
•  After half an hour open the pressure cooker, squeeze a lemon on top and mix it well.
• Then serve the hot and spicy tahari with yogurt chutney (dahin ki chutney/raita).