Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, malabari chicken biriyani. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Malabari Chicken Biriyani is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Malabari Chicken Biriyani is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have malabari chicken biriyani using 35 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Malabari Chicken Biriyani:
- Get For chicken curry
- Make ready 2 lbs boneless and skinless chicken thighs cut into bite size pieces
- Get 1 large onion chopped fine
- Get 1.5 tablespoons ginger garlic paste
- Take 3 green chillies chopped
- Get 3/4 cup coriander leaves,chopped
- Prepare 1/2 cup mint leaves,chopped
- Take 1.5 tablespoon canola oil/ ghee
- Take 2 large tomatoes finely chopped
- Make ready 1 tablespoon Garam Masala
- Make ready 2 teaspoons kashmiri chilli powder
- Take 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- Make ready to taste salt
- Take 2 tablespoons thick yoghurt
- Take 1/2 cup coconut milk
- Get for Biriyani Rice
- Take 4 cups basmati rice
- Make ready 1 tablespoon ghee
- Get 8 cardamom pods
- Prepare 8 cloves
- Take 2 inches cinnamon stick
- Prepare 2 bay leaves
- Make ready 10 peppercorns
- Make ready 1 star anise
- Take to taste Salt
- Make ready For Layering
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped coriander leaves
- Take 1/2 cup chopped mint leaves
- Get 1/4 cup cashews (roasted in ghee)
- Prepare 1/2 juice of lemon
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Kewra water (essence of screw pine)
- Take 1/2 cup fried onions
- Get 5 boiled eggs (cut in half)
- Get Few stands of saffron soaked in milk
- Take as required dough made of all-purpose flour / whole wheat flour to seal the pot
Steps to make Malabari Chicken Biriyani:
- To start with the chicken curry, sauce onion in a frying pan till it turns light brown. Add green chillies, ginger-garlic paste and sauce till it blends well and is aromatic.
- Now add the mint and coriander leaves and mix well. Add tomatoes to this mixture and cook coved on low flame till it's all well incorporated. Add all the dry spices and mix well. Sautè for a few minutes for the spices to be well absorbed.
- Add yoghurt to this mixture and mix well. Now add the chicken pieces and sauce till all pieces are well coated in this mixture. Cooked covered on low flame till the chicken pieces are cooked. Finish the curry by adding coconut milk and mixing well.
- To prepare the rice, soak rice in cold water for 30 minutes and drain well. Pour ghee in a deep pan and sauce all the whole spices till aromatic. Add rice, salt and sautè well for a few minutes. This ensures that the rice doesn't turn out sticky. Add 4 cups of cold water. We want the rice to be almost cooked, not fully cooked. Cook the rice covered on low flame till it's fluffy and almost done.Pick out all the whole spices from the rice.
- Choose a wide container with a secure lid to layer the biriyani. Start layering the biriyani by putting a thin layer of rice, topped with an even layer of chicken curry. Add another layer of rice, topped with fried onions, mint, coriander, cashews. Repeat the process till the top layer. Garnish the top most layer of rice with mint, coriander, cashews, kewra, lemon juice. pour saffron milk on 1/2 cup of rice and to the top layer. Arrange the egg half on top, yolk side down.
- Seal the mouth of the lid with dough to make it air tight. Put in a preheated oven (350 degrees farheight)
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