Chicken Biriyani

This is definitely one of my favorite Indian meal- chicken biriyani. Biriyani is basically rice that is cooked with some sort of meat and vegetable. We use to make Chicken Pulao (basically chicken cooked with rice) which is another favorite of mine. After VJ’s mum came to visit last year, she gave me this recipe which is fantastic and delicious.

Ingredients

Serves 4

- chicken pieces (use boneless chicken such as the thigh piece or just chicken on the bone cut into pieces.. we usually use chicken maryland) around 800g to 1 kg

- 2 cups of rice washed and soaked

- 1 large onion diced

-2 tomatoes diced

- 1 tbsp of coriander powder, garam masala

- 1 tsp of chilli powder or according to what you like

- 7 cloves  and 7 cardamon pods

- 1 green chilli

- 3 cloves of garlic and 1 thumsize piece of ginger
1. Clean and soak rice

2. heat oil in pan add the cardamon pods, cloves. fry for 1 minute then add the onion, garlic, ginger and green chilli and fry for another minute

3. add the tomatoes and powdered spices (coriander, garam masala and chilli)

4. Add the chicken pieces and fry. Cover for 15 minutes

5. Add rice and enough water to cover around 1.5 inch above the rice. You can measure the liquid if you like.. so for one cup of water you use around 1.5 cups of water

6. let the mixture boil and add salt to taste then cover for 25 mins till rice is cooked. lmost ready to

7. When almost ready to eat add in chopped mint leaves and fried onions (basically just heat oil and add onions and fry till golden brown).

I usually add coriander leaves as well.

Enjoy with some yogurt and papadums.

This picture below is when the biriyani was cooked. I didn’t add any mint leaves into the pan as i was going to freeze it.

Instead of the clay pot that I bought in the Asian grocery shop, I used the romertopf to cook the biriyani and added a few extra bits of vegetables (beans and potatoes). When using the romertopf  just soak it in water for 20 minutes then make the biriyani liek above but after you fry the chicken in the pan add the whole mixture into the romertopf and put it in the oven for 30 minutes in 200degrees oven. Then take out and add the rice and the veges and the liquid (make sure the liquid you add in is hot or warm) and put back into the oven for a further 30 minutes.

Enjoy!

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