Pudina Murg Pulav

Some years back I read this recipe in the internet & I tried this recipe several times..

Ingredients: 750 gms chicken, cut into 8 pieces 2 cups basmati rice 3 tbsp ghee 5 cups water 3 bay leaves 4 cloves 2 cinnamon sticks 4 green chillies 2” piece ginger 1 tsp. jeera powder 1 tsp chilli powder 1½ tsp. coriander powder 4 black cardamoms 1 tsp. garam masala 3 onions, finely sliced 1 tomato, finely chopped ¼ bunch coriander leaves, chopped ½ cup mint leaves, chopped Salt as per taste. Method: Wash and soak the rice for 30 minutes. Drain water and set aside. Boil chicken pieces with cinnamon, cloves, black cardamom, ginger and a little salt in 5-cups of water. Cook until just tender. Remove from fire, strain and reserve the chicken pieces and stock separately. Discard whole spices along with ginger piece. Heat ghee in a heavy bottom vessel. Fry sliced onions until golden brown. Add green chillies, chopped tomato, chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves. Saute until light brown, add chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala, jeera powder and salt. Add 4 cups of stock and add strained rice along with chicken and bring to a boil.. Cover and cook over medium flame until the liquid gets absorbed. Add little stock if the rice is not cooked. Serve along with raita.

Goans Declare War On Saddam!!!

Saddam Hussein was sitting in his office wondering whom to invade next when his telephone rang.

"Haallo, Mr Hussein!" a heavily accented voice said, "This is Pedroo from Bardez, State of Goa. I am ringing to inform you that we are officially declaring the war on you!"

"Well, Pedro," Saddam replied, "This is indeed important news! How big is your army?"

"Right now," said Pedro, after a moment's calculation, "there is myself, my cousin Diego, my next door neighbour Savio, and the entire football team from our parish. That makes eight"

Saddam paused. "I must tell you, Pedroo, that I have one million men in my army waiting to move at my command".

"Maincho Go," said Pedroo, "I'll have to ring you back!"

Sure enough, the next day, Pedroo called again.

"Mr. Hussein, it is Pedroo; I'm calling from Bardez STD, the war is still on! We have managed to acquire some infantry equipment!"

"And what equipment would that be, Pedroo?" Saddam asked.

"Well, we have two combines, a donkey and my brother Agnelo's Matador van."

Saddam sighed. "I must tell you, Pedroo, that I have 16,000 tanks and 14,000 armored personnel carriers. Also, I've increased my army to 1.5 million, since we last spoke."

"Ye Deva...bhogos saiba" said Pedroo, "I'll have to get back to you."

Sure enough, Pedroo rang again the next day.

"Mr. Hussein, the war is still on! We have managed to get ourselves airborne...... We've modified Agnelo's Matador van by adding a couple of shotguns, sticking on some wings and the village generator. Four school-pass boys from Dabholim have joined us as well!"

Saddam was silent for a minute and then cleared his throat.

"I must Tell you, Pedroo, that I have 10,000 bombers and 20,000 fighter planes. My military complex is surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And, since we last spoke, I've increased my army to TWO MILLION!"

"Mojhe Jesu...." said Pedroo, "I'll have to ring you back."

Sure enough, Pedroo called again the next day.

"Hello, Mr.Hussein! I am sorry to tell you that we have had to call off the war."

"I'm sorry to hear that," said Saddam, chuckling quietly.

"Why the sudden change of heart?"

"Well," said Pedroo, "we've all had a long chat over a couple of bottles of feni, and we decided there's no way we can feed two million prisoners of war!!!"