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For making perfect caramel all you need is patience. So keep calm and start with Joy :D Ingredients:   Sugar- 1 cup for 1/2 cup caramel   Water as required Video of step by step pictures:   Method:   1. Take sugar in a heavy bottom wok. Switch on the stove and maintain a medium flame throughout the cooking process if you are doing this for the first time. Start on high when you are confident enough. 2.Use a metal spoon and stir the sugar once in a while. 3.The sugar will slowly start to melt and form crystals as you stir, don give up just stir slowly. 4.More crystals will start to form, At this point stir the sugar only occasionally. 5.Push crystals to the center where the melting process happens faster. This will avoid caramelization only at the center.   6.Now almost all crystals will start to melt and the caramel will begin to get its crimson color. Keep stirring slowly  ,til all the crystals blend in with th...

One of my all time favorite food is Biriyani. I crave to have biriyani almost all the time There are many versions of Briyani and this one is Tamilnadu style one pot recipe.  Ingredients: 1. Basmathi Rice-1 kg 2. Chicken- 1 + 1/2 kg 3. Chilly Powder - 2 tsp 4. Curd - 1/2 cup 5. Salt to taste 6. Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp 7. Oil as required. 8. Whole Spices 9. Onion- 4 chopped 10.Tomato - 3 diced. 11. Green chilly- 5 to 6 12. Garlic cloves - 5 to 6 13. Biriyani Masala - 2 tsp ( any brand) 14. Fresh Herbs- a handful ( I used coriander and mint leaves) 15. Lemon juice - 1 tsp 16. Ghee- 2 tsp 17. Shallots - 4 to 5 18. Ginger - 1 large piece Method: 1. Pressure cook Naatu Kozhi with salt, turmeric powder and chilly powder for 1 whistle and set aside. 2. Choose long grain and flavored basmathi rice (go by the smell of it). Soak rice in water when you start making the biriyani. 3. Heat the Pot or rice cooker in which you are going to cook biriyani. 4. A...