It is a traditional dish. The best part of this dish is use of beef stock that it is full of flavors. The meat in this dish is so light and melts into your mouth. It hardly takes less than an hour and half to cook. It is simple and easy dish. You don’t need anything else with this dish because this dish is flavorful own its own. You can add any type of meat you like to eat, but the cooking time of meat will vary on the type of meat you use.

Ingredients

For Yakhni:

1 tsp Garam Masala

5 to 6 cups of water

½ kg beef

1 inch piece of ginger,

5 cloves of garlic

1 medium sized onion

½ tbsp of salt

For meat:

1 large sized onion, chopped

 ½ cup of vegetable oil

1 ½ tbsp of red chili powder

1/4 tbsp of salt

6 cloves of garlic

2 inch cube of ginger

2 to 3 green chilies

2 tsp of coriander seeds

½ tsp of cumin seeds

½ cup of yogurt (optional)

For rice:

4 cups basmati rice, soaked in water for 2 to 3 hours

7 and 1/2 cups of liquid (beef stock + water) add as much stock you have by measuring it then add water in the pot.

1 tbsp of garam masala

2 tbsp of salt

Procedure

1) In a pressure cooker, add water in it. Add whole piece of ginger, garlic cloves, roughly chopped onion, salt, garam masala and on high heat close the lid tightly, let them cook on medium to high heat. Every pressure cooker is different so use your pressure cooker according to its instruction. Mine takes about 5 to 10 minutes, once the piston moves.

2) Peel off ginger, green chilies and garlic and rinse them well. Ground or mince them in a mortar and pestle, also add coriander seeds and cumin seeds. Ground them well. Texture should be roughly like a paste.

3) Once beef is done let it sit for 15 to 30 minutes and cooled a bit, remove the lid. Your beef stock is ready, take out it in separate bowl to use later along with meat. In another pot or same pressure cooker, add vegetable oil and preheat it on medium heat. Add chopped onions in it and cook until onion get golden in color.

4) Add ginger and garlic paste in the pan and cook it until it gets fully cooked and all the bits turned golden in color. Keep on stirring until it starts separating from oil.

5) Stir red chili powder and meat, mix it for 5 to 10 minutes, when meat is ready at this stage add the yogurt and mix well. Now add the beef stock by measuring it and add water stir well. Total you will need 7 ½ cups of liquid. Cover it and let the mixture comes to a boil.

6) Once it comes to a boil add 2 tbsp of salt or per taste and garam masala in it. Strain your rice and now start adding rice in the pot. Once you added all the rice stir it well. Close the lid let them cook for about 2 to 5 minutes but keep an eye on them.

7) There should be some liquid left behind so leave it as some liquid is still there in the rice. After that slow down the heat of stove as low as possible. Close the lid and let them sit there for about 25 to 30 minutes then open the lid and serve immediately.