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Monday, August 13, 2012

Chicken Biryani

Chicken biryani.

Hello Frnds,

Lets start with today chicken biryani..Easy to prepare ,No cooking required of hours ,only raw materials required.

Chicken biryani is a reserved dish which often served at some special occasions like weddings ,parties ,holidays like Ramadan etc.

It is world renowned Indian dish, Biryani takes time and practice to make but is ... spices like saffron is layered with lamb, chicken, fish or vegetables.
My personal recommendation try this recipe on weekends which fulfils your weekend mood on full swing of joy.

So not wasting Lets start with our basic ingredients
Ingredients:-
Chicken 500 gm ( boneless or whatever you like) ,yogurt 1 cup....

Chicken Biryani
Basmati Rice 2 cup For marination
cinnamon 2 sticks*
cardamom green 8 /10*
cardamom black 3/4*
black pepper 4/5*
cumin 3 tsp*
cumin black 2 tsp*
clove 4 /5*
Turmeric
Red Chili powder
Salt,Oil
Coriander and Mint leaves
Onions 4 /5
Mint leaves
Cumin-Coriander seeds powder
Ginger-Garlic Paste
Bay leafs 4/5*

Now before starting I wanna to tell you Biryani is a dish in which Rice and its ingredients cooked differently and brought together in sufficient amount of layered format so that your final dish contains Moist or dry chicken and separated grains of rice.

Though its separate,
though cooking time for rice and curry is different,
 but gives unique taste of its individual ingredients of one dish meal.

Procedure:-
Heat oil 4 tsp in pan.Add 3 medium sized chopped onions (cut them in vertical direction).Fry and saute them till it turns golden brown.
This takes around 20 min.

Further take pan and saute masala (*) keeping 1/2 balance each material.Grind it very fine.
aside wash chicken neatly.Drain out excess water.Now add  yogurt , ginger garlic paste , 1 cardamon stick , 3 bay leaf, 2 black pepper ,cumin ,black cumin,Chopped coriander and mint leaves,cinnamon (black and green)

Further add Chili powder , sauteed grind ed masala , salt ,turmeric,oil.Keep it for at least min 2 hrs.


Mean while after an hour ,soak 2 cup of rice in water for near about 30 /45 min.Basmati Rice has speciality that grains enlarged gives its own flavour and smell.Now Take water up to 3/4th height of vessel and when it Will boil add cardamon , cinnamon, black pepper,bay leaf,salt.

Now taste water.It should be enough salty.Add your soaked rice in it.Cook it half boil.

Now take Vessel having flat bottom.Add oil and fried brown onion ( 2 to 3 ) and marinated chicken.Cooked it until water appears.near about 15 to 20 min.
Now in same pan make layer of fried onions ,then chicken,Rice.
Further one more time apply layer of chicken then rice.On Rice apply the layer of fried onions and garnish it with coriander leaves.

heat it near about 10 min.Serve it HOT with salad or eat as it is.

I cant resist self anymore to have it..










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