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Grandma's Polao
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| Eid dinner: polao-korma |
I have a tendency to forget about Korbanir Eid (Eid ul Adha) until someone reminds me that it's coming up. Unfortunately for me this year I'd moved to a new city and a new job and there wasn't anyone around me to do the reminding. Hence when I finally did realise Eid was coming up, I'd already made work related commitments for half of the day. Oh well.
Thankfully, Eid was on a Friday here in the UK, and so I had the weekend off right after. I decided to cook chicken korma and polao, a very common combination for special occasions. The problem was I didn't remember my mom's recipe for polao, and I didn't want to call her up again to ask because I feel like I've been nagging her for recipes a little too much over the past few days. So I decided to bypass mom and go straight to my grandma, or nani as I call her.
My nani's polao recipe below is one of the simple, classic ones. You'll find many other variations for polao of course, but I prefer mine uncomplicated.
