How to make Chicken Biryani
Following the recipe for half kg chicken biryani transcripted from Food Area Tamil youtube channel that is posted by Jabbar Bhai Full Video
Ingredients
Make sure you have the following ingredients on hand
Ingredient | Quantity |
---|---|
Purple onion | 200 g |
Oil | 100 g |
Green Cardamom | 3 pieces |
Cloves | 3 pieces |
Cinnamon | 3 pieces |
Cilantro | 1/4 bunch |
Mint | 1/4 bunch |
Green chillies | 3 pieces |
Ginger Garlic paste | 75 g |
Kashmiri Red Chilli powder | 1 tbsp |
Tomatoes | 200 g |
Yogurt | 100 ml |
Salt | 1 tbsp |
Chicken | 500 g |
Rice | 500 g |
Process
- In pressure cooker add 200 g onions. On medium heat
- Add Cardomom, Cloves, Cinnanmon
- Add 100 g of oil
- Fry all of them together till they turn gold brown
- Add Cilantro and sautee for 10 seconds
- Add mint and sautee for 10 seconds
- Add green chillies
- Immediately add ginger garlic paste and sautee for 10 seconds
- Add red chilli powder and mix nicely for 10 seconds
- Add 200 g tomatoes
- Immediately add 100 ml of yogurt and mix for 5 seconds
- Add 1 tbsp salt and mix well.
- Increase heat to high and sautee for 5 minutes till everything becomes a paste
- Reduce heat to low and add washed and dried 500 g of chicken
- Take 500 g of rice and soak in water
- Mix for 1 minute
- Increase heat to high and add 750 ml water
- Close the lid but don’t put weight and leave it be for 1 minute
- Turn the heat to low and open the lid.
- Mix the masala slightly
- Increase the heat to high.
- Add 500 g Rice that is washed and drained
- Mix rice gently into the masala for 1 minute
- Check salt and add if necessary
- If sourness is not sufficient add 1/2 lemon
- Make sure rice and masala are at level
- Put the lid on and add the weight (aka whistle)
- Make sure heat is high. Wait for one whistle (approximately 5-10 minutes)
- Turn off the heat after whistle.
- Let it rest for 10 minutes
- Open and gently serve without breaking the rice
Enjoy!