Easy Egg Biryani

Egg Biryani is the most easy Biryani recipe I have tried.

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Biryani is a dish of exotic spices that satisfies your taste buds. It is a very renowned dish of the Mughlai cuisine. Egg biryani too holds a powerful place in the biryani family only using eggs in place of meat or chicken preparing it with all the same traditional spices. This is a very preferred dish for celebrations. Biryani can offered with onion raita or a plate of green salad.

Ingredients

• Basmati Rice 500 Grams
• Pinch of Saffron soaked in 4 tablespoon milk
• Eggs 4 nos. (boiled and fried)
• Potatoes 4 nos (boiled and fried)
• Onions (2), Ginger(1/2 inch), Garlic(4 cloves), Tomato(1/2) and Green chillies paste
• Green Chillies (according to how much spicy you want your dish to be)
• Fried sliced onions 2 nos. and ring cut onions 2 nos
• Plain Yogurt 1 tablespoon
• Whole Garam Masala
• Turmeric Powder 1/2 teaspoon
• Cumin powder 1 teaspoon
• Biryani masala powder 1 teaspoon
• Kashmiri Mirch powder 1 teaspoon
• Salt to taste
• Sugar to taste
• Oil 1 tablespoons
• Clarified butter (ghee) 1+2+1 tablespoons
• Handful of mint for garnishing

Directions

• Wash and soak rice for exact two hours.

• Boil the eggs and shell them. Fry them slightly golden.

• Boil the peeled potatoes. Fry them slightly golden.

• In a kadai, heat 1 tablespoon of ghee. Fry the ring cut onions for biryani garnishing. Add salt and sugar as per taste to the onions. Keep aside.

• In a kadai, heat the oil. Fry the sliced onions until golden brown, then add onion, ginger, garlic, green chillies and tomato paste. Cook for sometime and then add curd and cook the masala. Add kashmiri mirch powder, cumin powder, turmeric and salt to taste. 1 cup of hot water to the cooked masala. Let it cook until the water dries a little. Add the fried eggs and potatoes to the masala, stir a little to coat the eggs and potatoes with masala. Sprinkle a pinch of powdered biryani masala, cover it and keep aside.

• After exactly two hours of soaking, strain the rice.

• Take a pressure cooker. Put two table spoons of ghee in the cooker on mid-flame. After the ghee melts add the whole garam masala to it. 

• Let it cook for sometime, ghee will extract the flavours from spices. Add the soaked rice to the the cooker, stir well to coat the rice with the flavoured ghee. Add 750ml water to it and mix well and cover with the lid of the cooker, let it cook on high flame. After the very first whistle, remove the whistle of the pressure cooker, switch off the gas. The vapour will evaporate out of the nozzle and rice is done.

Garnishing

• Add 1 tablespoon of ghee to a large pan and rest of the biryani masala powder it.
• Add a layer of rice, then a layer of cooked egg, then rice again egg, and finally rice, 
• Add the kesar soaked milk to colour the rice and 1 tablespoon each of keora water and  rose water.

• Cover the pan with lid, put it on low flame, for five minutes.
• And your Egg Biryani is done!

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Sleep well Stay healthy

Sleep makes us feel better, but its important to go beyond it. Just enhancing our mood or removing under-eye dark circles is not enough. Adequate sleep is the key to a healthy lifestyle. Therefore, here I share some benefits of sleep.

• Memory booster

During sleep you actually strengthen memories.

• Live longer

Less than five hours or more than six and a half hours of sleep per night affects our quality of life as well as span of life.

• Delay aging

People who get less sleep six or fewer hours a night have higher chances of premature aging.

• Boost creativity

Get a good night’s sleep before getting out with your creativity be it with paintbrushes or the pen. It may result in you creating more as well.

• Be a winner

If you are a sportsperson, sleep be the one simple way to improve your performance.

• Weigh right

If you are thinking about going on a diet, you should plan an earlier bedtime too, as lack of sleep ends up in bloating you.

• Defy depression

A lack of sleep can contribute to depression. A good night’s sleep can really help a moody person decrease his anxiety. One get more emotionally stable with good sleep.

Be a better you, Go snooze! 

Goodbye Winter, Welcome Spring

The changing season affects our skin the most. Our skin is very delicate, and is always exposed to environmental changes and pollution. During winter we tend to become more dehydrated, our skin feels dry. While, with the approaching spring and summer, we need to start taking care of our sunburn, hyper-pigmentation as well as oil and sebum secretion. Spring brings a sudden mix of warmer winds and sunnier days than Winter, taking care of skin should begin with understanding the season change.

End winter with supple skin:

• Use a SPF 365 days a year, the sun is never off-duty. During winter, even though we can't feel the heat of the sun, the UVA and UVB rays prevails and they are quiet damaging.
• Avoid hot water and use lukewarm water instead. We may crave for a hot shower in winter, but that results in drying out our skin even more.
• Stay hydrated. The cold weather makes us feel thirsty, but our skin craves for the hydration as much as in the summer.
• Exfoliate twice a week. This helps in getting rid of the built up dry and flaky skin. Though moisturization is the next step to be followed to keep dryness at bay.
• Use oil-based moisturizers. They will keep your skin keep soft and supple for a longer period of time than that of the water based and gel based products.
• Avoid topical medication, as they seem to dry out the skin even more.

Prep for spring:

• Using SPF is a compulsion. Start using at least SPF 40 or above to protect skin from sunspots and hyper pigmentation.
• Balance oils. Instead of heavy oil based products, start using gel based moisturiser. This will help to balance the oil and sebum level of our skin.
• Mask is a relief. An oatmeal mask or rice mask is the way out. It refreshens as well as nourishes the facial skin from winter torture.
• Swap from body butters to lotions: It may also be time to switch up your lotions. No matter the type of skin you have, everyone must wear a moisturizer. Use light moisturizers for oily skin or creamier versions for dry skin
• Tune up toners. It cleanses the left over dirt or makeup on the skin, helping the skin breathe. It also closes the pores reducing the amount of oil secretion and chances of breakout.