Indian Jewelled Rice

Ingredients

• 7 tablespoons butter
• 2 onions diced
• 2 teaspoons ginger root freshly grated
• 3 cloves garlic crushed
• 6 cardamom pods
• 5 cloves
• 1 cinnamon stick broken
• 23 lamb cut into bite-sized pieces
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
• chili powder
• 667 cups plain yogurt
• 667 cups meat stock
• salt
• 1 1/2 cups basmati rice
• 333 cups raisins
• 4 tablespoons milk
• saffron threads
• 6 tablespoons blanched almond
• cilantro leaf