Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken biryani. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chicken Biryani is one of the more complicated rice dishes in Indian/pakistani cooking. Being quite an amateur cook I still managed to cook up a feast with this single dish and my hubby is still licking his fingers! I am never looking for another biryani recipe after this.
Chicken Biryani is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Chicken Biryani is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have chicken biryani using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Biryani:
- Get 2 cups Basmati rice
- Make ready 1 whole chicken
- Make ready 1 cup Yogurt
- Make ready 2 tablespoons Biryani masala
- Get Green chili (optional)
- Get Fried onions
- Get Lemon juice
- Make ready leaf Fresh mint chopped
- Prepare Fresh coriander chopped
- Get 2 pieces Star Anise
- Take 4 pieces Cardamom
- Get 2 pieces Bay leaf
- Take 1 teaspoon tumeric
- Take to taste Salt
- Get Bouillon
- Make ready Chilli powder
- Prepare Cloves
- Make ready Saffron
- Prepare 3 tablespoons milk
- Prepare 3 oils
The bottom layer of rice absorbs all the chicken juices as it cooks, giving it a tender texture and rich flavor, while the top layer of rice turns out white and fluffy. Biryani is a celebration of all that is great about Indian food - the heady aromas, the vibrant colours, the fluffy rice and those addictive curry flavours. Make this Chicken Biryani with your protein of choice - or try a vegetable biryani! One of the most requested recipes is finally here!
Steps to make Chicken Biryani:
- Wash your chicken and marinate your chicken with a tablespoon salt, chilli powder (to ur taste) 2 tablespoons Biryani masala, a hand full fried onions, chopped fresh mint and coriander leaf and add 3 tablespoons oil and turmeric
- Mix well and add the yogurt to chicken and lemon juice to marinate for at least two hours or overnight
- After the chicken have marinated, you can either (grill or fry the chicken especially if you are using local chicken to make the chicken soft) but for this i semi fry them and keep aside in another pot i
- Wash and Soak the rice for 15 minutes and drain, meanwhile pot water in a pot wen it comes to boil add salt(let the salt comes out pls) 2 boullion cubes, star anise, bay leaf, cardamom, cloves and 3 tablespoons oil and add the rice
- Cook the rice till is about 90 percent cooked and then off the stop strained the rice and keep aside then rinse the pot
- On the stove put the pot on the fire add two tablespoons oil, using a plate or something fetch the rice and spread in the pot (this is important pls make sure to spread the rice and not put in one place) the add a couple pieces of chicken the chicken fried onions, the mint and coriander leaf and then add the rice again by spreading it and repeat the step again
- After the last step soak the saffron in the milk and spread on top of the rice and cover with a lead, for the first 10 mints on high heat and 5 mint low heat or till u are sure the rice is soft (the Egg is optional)
- But if u want boil the egg separate, After the 15 mints off the fire but dnt open and allow the rice to rest for like 5 mints if u are patient 😋 enough and then serve and sprinkle ur mint leaf and ur slice boiled egg (plss dnt turn the rice)
Chicken biryani recipe with video & step-by-step photos. Biryani is one of the most amazing royal delicacies introduced to Indians by the Mughals. Since then it has been much popular and is considered to be a luxurious treat to enjoy on special occasions. Making a chicken biryani in authentic dum style does take some time and needs little expertise. The first and foremost important thing to take care of while preparing chicken biryani is, always use a heavy-bottomed pan as you would not want the chicken getting cooked.
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