Egg Briyani

Ingredients:
Long grain rice / Basmati rice - 2 cups
Eggs - 4 or as needed
Large onions - 2, julienned
Green chilies - 2 or to taste
Ginger garlic paste - 1tsp each
Curd - ½ cup
Chopped mint leave & cilantro leaves - ¼ cup
Orange or red food color - A pinch, mixed in 1 tbsp water
Salt - to taste

Masala Powder:
Turmeric powder - ¼tsp
Red chili powder - 1 tsp or to taste or briyani masala powder - 1tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp

For Seasoning:
Oil - 3 tbsp
Ghee - 1 tsp
Cinnamon - 1 inch stick
Cloves - 3 nos
Green cardamoms - 2
Bay leaves - 1 nos
Fennel seeds - ½ tsp or Black cumin - ½ tsp

For Omelet:
Eggs - 1 ~ 2
Turmeric powder - A pinch
Red chili powder - ¼ tsp or to taste
Ginger garlic paste - ¼ tsp both
Basen / chick pea flour - 11/2 tsp
Oil - ¼ tsp
Salt - to taste

Method:

• Wash and soak rice for minium ½ an hour.
• Hard boil eggs. Peel and slightly cut on the white portion of each eggs.
• Heat oil in a deep pan. Add seasoning ingredients  and saute for an minute.

• Add onion, saute till golden brown color then add ginger garlic paste, saute  till raw smell disapper.
• Add green chilies, all masala powders, chopped mint & cilantro leaves, curd and salt.  Mix well and cook it for 5 minutes in medium heat.
• Add 3 ½ cups of water to the masala mixture and allow it to boil.
• Meanwhile drain the soaked rice and add directly to the boiling masala mixture.
• Add ghee and mix well. Cover the pan and cook it in medium heat for 3 minutes.
• Lower the heat and continue to cook for 5 minutes.

• In same time, crack the eggs and mix other Omelet ingredients together in a bowl.
• Heat the pan, add few drops of oil. Pour in the eggs.
• After few seconds, when bottom of the omelet starts to set. Stir and scramble in to pieces.
• To this scrambled eggs, add hard boiled eggs and fry for an minute.
• Open the lid, sprinkle orange food color water over the rice and top it with both scrambled & hard eggs.
• Cover the pan and cook it for another 5 minutes in low heat and turn off the heat.
• After 5 minutes open the lid and gentle mix with fork. Serve hot with any raitha.