Chicken biryani with potatoes
Chicken biryani with potatoes

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken biryani with potatoes. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken biryani with potatoes is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Chicken biryani with potatoes is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

For my recipe, I have let the chicken marinate overnight in a spicy yoghurt mix. The only accompaniment, you need with this chicken biryani with potatoes is some chilled and spiced yoghurt, so I have served it alongside a raita. To make it, I simply, whisked yoghurt.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken biryani with potatoes using 32 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken biryani with potatoes:
  1. Get 1 1/2 cups basmati rice washed and soaked for 15 minutes
  2. Take 1 cup fried onions
  3. Take 2 big potatoes cut in halves
  4. Prepare 1 big tomato chopped
  5. Get 4-5 cloves
  6. Get 2 black cardamoms
  7. Prepare 6 green cardamoms
  8. Take 3 bay leaves
  9. Get 4 inch cinnamon sticks
  10. Take 1 tsp cumin seeds
  11. Prepare 1 star anise
  12. Prepare 2 tbsp black peppercorns
  13. Take 1 cup coriander leaves finely chopped
  14. Make ready 1 cup mint leaves finely chopped
  15. Make ready 4-5 chillis slit
  16. Prepare 1 pinch saffron
  17. Get 2 tbsp milk
  18. Get 6 tbsp ghee
  19. Make ready to taste salt
  20. Prepare For marinating the chicken :
  21. Take 500 g chicken on the bone
  22. Make ready 1 cup yoghurt whisked
  23. Make ready 2 tsp red chilli powder
  24. Take 1 tsp turmeric powder
  25. Prepare 1 tsp cumin powder
  26. Prepare 2 tsp coriander powder
  27. Take 3 tsp garam masala powder
  28. Prepare 2 tsp garlic paste
  29. Make ready 2 tsp ginger paste
  30. Take 2 tbsp lemon juice
  31. Make ready 1 tbsp mustard oil or any cooking oil
  32. Get 1 tsp salt to taste

Basmati rice with its thin, fine grains is the ideal variety to use. Ghee is butter that has been slowly melted so that the milk solids Add the chicken mixture and the potatoes; gently mix them into the rice. Cover the saucepan tightly, turn heat to very low. Chicken biryani is a complex to cook thing, but it tastes superb on a Saturday afternoon.

Steps to make Chicken biryani with potatoes:
  1. Add all the marination spices and the yoghurt to the washed and cleaned chicken. Massage the chicken well with the marinade. Cover and leave it in the fridge overnight.
  2. Set 6 cups of water with the a tablespoon of ghee, 1 black cardamom, 3 green cardamoms, 2 bay leaves, 2 cinnamon sticks,1 tablespoon peppercorns, cumin seeds, star anise and salt to boil.
  3. Once the water comes to a roll boil, add the soaked basmati rice. Cook the rice until 75% done. Drain and keep aside. Warm the milk and add the saffron strands to it. Keep it aside.
  4. Heat a heavy bottomed pan with two tablespoons of ghee. Once hot add the cloves, 2 sticks of cinnamon, a bay leaf and 2-3 green cardamoms When they turn fragrant, add the potatoes.
  5. Fry them until they get a light golden brown colour on them. Add the marinated chicken, chopped tomatoes, a few chillis, the beresta and some coriander leaves. Mix well.
  6. Add half a cup of water and salt to taste. Be mindful, as the the cooked rice and marinated chicken already have salt. Mix well, cover and cook until the chicken is completely cooked. Remove from flame and set aside.
  7. Now, grease a thick bottomed pan with ghee all over. Arrange the chicken pieces, from the curry, on the edges and keep the potatoes in the centre. Cover with the curry.
  8. Now carefully layer the rice over the chicken and the curry. Use a spatula to do this so that the grains do not break. Drizzle the ghee and the saffron milk. Then arrange the slit chilis.
  9. Finally add the mint and coriander leaves. Cover and cook on a very low flame for 15-20 minutes (or until the rice is fully cooked)
  10. When done, turn the flame off. Keep covered for five minutes before opening the lid. Mix gently and scoop the rice out carefully with the chicken and potatoes. Enjoy your chicken biryani with potatoes, hot, with a chilled raita on the side!

That too if you are planning on getting a nap after the lunch! Put in salt (puting salt is tricky here as you will be also compensating for the rice), the chicken and potatoes and cook in low flame till the oil separates. Small potato biryani recipe, with a unique flavourful masala. Learn how to make baby potato biryani with full video, stepwise pictures recipe. I first tried small pototo biryani from a cookbook and loved it.

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