Lots of cooking and finishing in over, but worth it.

Ingredients

Main

• 8 cups water
• 1 cup red lentils
• 1 cup basmati rice
• olive oil
• 1 grated onion
• 2 garlic
• 500 gr chicken, cut in bite size
• 2 tsp paprika
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• ginger
• white wine
• 1 cup milk
• 120 gr yogurt

Sauce

• olive oil
• 1 onion, in rings
• one lemon juice
• 2 Tbsp Garam masala powder
• half cup almonds
• fresh corriander
• 3 Tbsp yellow raisins

Preparation

Boil 7 cups water with rice and lower heat for 15 min without stirring.

Add lentils, stir once and continue cooking for 10 min. Once rice has holes in surface, set aside covered with cloth.

Stir fry onion and garlic. Add spices (paprika, ginger, chili, soy sauce). Once they smell, add chicken. Once it is cooked on the outside add wine and 1 cup of water and cook on low heat for 25-30 min, until water runs low.

Mix yogurt and milk in a bowl and add to cooking chicken. Set aside.

Make the sauce. Stir fry onion. Add lemon juice, garam masala, almonds and raisins.

Preheat oven to 160oC.

Add half the rice mix in oven dish. Add half the chicken mix. Cover with remaining rice mix. Top with rest of chicken mix. Add the sauce on top. Put a lid and bake for 20 min.

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