Chicken Biryani
Chicken Biryani

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chicken biryani. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken Biryani is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Biryani is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken biryani using 28 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Biryani:
  1. Prepare 500 g chicken
  2. Take 2 cups basmati rice
  3. Get 1 pint water
  4. Prepare * marinade
  5. Prepare 2-3 green chilis, chopped
  6. Get 1 tbsp garlic / ginger paste
  7. Prepare 1 tbsp ginger
  8. Take 1 tsp peppercorns
  9. Prepare 1 tbsp black cumin
  10. Get 1 tsp curry powder
  11. Prepare 1 tsp turmeric
  12. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  13. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp cumin powder
  14. Prepare 1 tbsp coriander powder
  15. Get 2 bayleaves
  16. Get 1 inch mace
  17. Get 1 stick cinnamon
  18. Prepare 5 cloves
  19. Take 6 green cardamon
  20. Prepare 4 black cardamon
  21. Get 1 cup plain yoghurt
  22. Get * toppings
  23. Take 2 large onions, sliced
  24. Get 2 tbsp oil
  25. Prepare 1 cup coriander, chopped
  26. Make ready 1/2 cup mint, chopped
  27. Prepare 1 pinch saffron
  28. Make ready 2 tbsp milk
Steps to make Chicken Biryani:
  1. First step as always, get all your ingredients laid out and measured so you can easily cook along. Also at this point, rinse your 2 cups of rice in cool water and leave to soak for 30 mins.
  2. While the rice is soaking, cut the chicken into larger pieces than a typical curry, and place in a large bowl. I used chicken breasts here but thighs or legs will be perfect too.
  3. Add the yoghurt and all the other *marinade ingredients to the chicken
  4. and mix thoroughly. Cover the bowl and place in the fridge for around 30 minutes.
  5. Meanwhile, bring the oil to a high heat and carefully put a handful of the sliced onions in there.
  6. As the onions brown, take them out and add the next handful.
  7. When removed, put the fried onions on a paper towel to soak up the excess oil.
  8. Next, boil a pot of water, then strain and add the basmati rice that you had soaking previously.
  9. Optionally, throw in a bay leaf, a couple of green cardamon pods and a couple of whole cloves to the rice.
  10. When the rice is 50% done, take it off the heat and strain it. Should only take about 5 minutes. Pluck out the cardamon and cloves and discard.
  11. Now to bring it all together, oil a pan and lay out the marinated chicken so all the chicken pieces are on the bottom. Take out the cinnamon stick and optionally the cloves here and discard.
  12. Next add a layer of half the rice, and toss half of the fried onions, mint and coriander on top.
  13. Repeat the last step adding another layer, then lastly randomly pour the milk and saffron mix for colour.
  14. Firmly add a well fitting top to your pan. This is really important to keep the chicken juicy and delicious. You can wrap a damp cloth around the lid to seal it if needed. Now cook on medium for 5 minutes.
  15. lower the heat to about a quarter and cook for another 15 minutes. Then remove from the heat and let it stand for another 5 minutes before removing the lid and serving!

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