Submitted by Lets Share Knowledge Team
Recipe: Chicken Biryani
Ingredients
- Chicken ………………………………………………………… 1 kg
- Rice ………………………………………………………………… 1 kg
- Tomato …………………………………………………………… 2-4
- Onion ……………………………………………………………… 2-3 sliced
- Black pepper crushed …....... 2 tbsp
- Cumin seed crushed ……………………………… 2 tbsp
- Yogurt ……………………………………………………….. 1 cup
- Food color (yellow) …………………………… 1 tbsp
- Salt ………………………………………………………………… to taste
- Red chili powder ………………………………… to taste
- Tamarind ……………………………………………………… to taste
Instructions
- First of all let the rice soak in water for about half an hour and then boil them by adding salt. If you are making 3 cups of rice then take 6 level teaspoons of salt. When boiling rice you can add bayleaves, cinnamon or any spice of your choice. Once the rice are 80 percent boiled take them out in a strainer.
- Soak some tamarind in water till it softens.
- Now in a pot add onion, sliced tomatoes, salt and red chili powder with 2 glasses of water and let the water to dry on medium flame. When water dries add chicken and tamarind to it and fry it well.
- After the oil comes on top, close the flame.
- Next fry some sliced onion in a pan in 3 tbsp of oil.
- Then take a pot and spread some boiled rice in it and add a layer of fried chicken to it. Again repeat the same for a second layer of chicken. Then cover top layer of rice with food color mixed in water or yogurt and spread crushed cumin seeds and crushed black pepper on it. And spread the fried onion along with oil on it. And keep it on low flame for 10 minutes.
- Delicious biryani is ready. Enjoy with salad and yogurt.
