This recipe was inspired by Ashley Singh Thomas's Keema Pulao and the desperation of having nothing cooked on a Friday night and being out of cashews. So you need a few things to get started here. Ingredients 1 and a half cups of onion masala (I make a huge batch of this once a month and keep it in the freezer...and yes, you can use it frozen) 1/2 bag of ikea meatballs. I use the chicken ones I use Ashley's recipe pretty shamelessly....so pull the list of spices (both whole and ground) from her recipe. Soak the rice for 15-30 minutes before you add it. Set the Instant pot to saute and add about 2 TbSP of ghee. Add the whole spices first and let them sizzle. Then add the meatballs (still frozen is totally fine) Throw in the frozen masala puck (still frozen is totally fine). Add the grounded spices and stir everything up pretty well. It should look absolutely coated with spices. Drain the rice and throw it on top. Add 1.5 cups of water to the pot and D
Finally figured out a trick for getting dutch oven loaves to turn out gorgeous: and it isn't putting an ice cube in the pot (it makes the bottom look funky). Spritz the inside of the dutch oven with a spray bottle generously before you put the loaf in. That's it. Cook 25 minutes with the lid on, then 15-20 with the lid off. I'm so happy to finally put to use the spray bottle that absolutely failed to teach my cats to behave. It now makes my crusts quite lovely Thanks to my starter incident, I'll get more scoring practice, but in the meantime, I'll take it.