Chicken Biryani
Chicken Biryani

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chicken biryani. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Chicken Biryani is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Chicken Biryani is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken biryani using 43 ingredients and 30 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Biryani:
  1. Make ready Chicken with bones
  2. Prepare Basmati rice
  3. Get chopped tomatoes
  4. Get chopped onions and other 3 for beresta
  5. Get Ginger-Garlic paste
  6. Prepare Yoghurt
  7. Make ready Biryani masala
  8. Take Alu bukhara(dry prunes)
  9. Make ready Salt
  10. Take Cooking oil
  11. Get Big Potatoes
  12. Make ready Lemon
  13. Take Mint leaves
  14. Make ready Saffron strandss soaked in 3 tablespoon warm Milk
  15. Prepare Ghee
  16. Get whole black Cardamom
  17. Get Cinnamon stick
  18. Prepare Cloves
  19. Prepare green Cardamom
  20. Get Black Pepper corns
  21. Prepare Drops of Biryani essence
  22. Get the biryani cover
  23. Prepare All purpose flour
  24. Prepare Salt
  25. Get Biryani masala
  26. Get Ghee and more to brush on the top
  27. Prepare Homemade Biryani masala-
  28. Take Coriander powder
  29. Prepare dry red Chillies
  30. Get Cumin seeds
  31. Prepare Cinnamon sticks
  32. Prepare Caraway seeds
  33. Get black Pepper corns
  34. Prepare Mustard seeds
  35. Make ready black Cardamom (only seeds)
  36. Take green Cardamom
  37. Make ready small javetri
  38. Prepare Fennel seeds
  39. Prepare Nutmeg powder
  40. Take Mango powder
  41. Take Turmeric powder
  42. Make ready Bay leaves
  43. Prepare Salt
Steps to make Chicken Biryani:
  1. Dry roast all the whole spices for biryani masala and then grind with other spice powder as mentioned in the ingredient section of biryani masala. It's not necessary to make fine powder. Little coarse powder is better.
  2. Clean and cut chicken into medium pieces.
  3. Cut 3 onions into thin slices for barista.
  4. Heat 2 cups of cooking oil in a broad pan and deep fry onions into light golden brown. Transfer to a kitchen towel.
  5. Clean and prick the potatoes and boil them in water. I microwaved them for 8 minutes.
  6. Peel and cut each potato into 4 halves.
  7. Fry them in the same oil where onions are fried to light golden brown.
  8. Transfer to a dish.
  9. Now transfer the remaining oil to a big heavy bottomed sauce pan and add in 3 chopped onions.
  10. Saute for 5-6 minutes and then add in 3 tablespoons ginger-garlic paste.
  11. Saute for a minute and then add in 3 chopped tomatoes.
  12. Stir and cook for 4-5 minutes and then add in the chicken pieces.
  13. Stir and cook for 5 minutes more and then add in previously prepared biryani masala along with whole garam masalas like black cardamom, green cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and black peppers.
  14. Mix everything well with a spatula and then add in 1 and 1/2 cup of yoghurt. Also add allu bukhara.
  15. Again mix well, add 1 cup of water, cover and cook in medium heat for about 20 minutes or until chicken cooks.
  16. In the mean time clean and soak 2 kg of long grain basmati rice for atleast 1/2 an hour.
  17. Also soak saffron in warm milk.
  18. When chicken cooks completely remove from heat. Do not completely dry up the gravy.
  19. Add rice in boiling water with 1 lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of salt. Drain when rice cooks 70%.
  20. Take a individual size earthen pot and place some prepared chicken curry at the bottom. Also place 2 fried potato pieces.
  21. Now make a layer of 70% done rice.
  22. Now sprinkle 1 tablespoon of melted ghee, 1 teaspoon of saffron soaked milk, 1 tablespoon of fried onions(beresta), few mint leaves and 1 drop of biryani essence.
  23. For the cover take maida/all purpose flour, salt biryani masala and ghee. Mix together and make a dough with water.
  24. Roll a lemon size ball from the dough to make a thin roti.
  25. Cover the biryani bowl with the roti and seal it properly.
  26. Brush little ghee on the top and bake the pot in pre heated oven for 15 minutes at 180 degree C.
  27. Reduce the heat to 150 degree and bake for another 10 minutes. Your scrumptious biryani is ready now.
  28. With a knife cut the edges to uncover and serve with salad and raita.
  29. You can alternatively make the biryani in stove top. Just make the layers as I have shown above. Cover with aluminium foil and lid and cook in low heat from 25 minutes.
  30. Stove top biryani is ready now. They are extremely delicious that you will love to make them again and again.

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