Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, malabari chicken biriyani. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Malabari Chicken Biriyani is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Malabari Chicken Biriyani is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have malabari chicken biriyani using 35 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Malabari Chicken Biriyani:
- Prepare For chicken curry
- Get 2 lbs boneless and skinless chicken thighs cut into bite size pieces
- Make ready 1 large onion chopped fine
- Prepare 1.5 tablespoons ginger garlic paste
- Take 3 green chillies chopped
- Make ready 3/4 cup coriander leaves,chopped
- Take 1/2 cup mint leaves,chopped
- Take 1.5 tablespoon canola oil/ ghee
- Take 2 large tomatoes finely chopped
- Get 1 tablespoon Garam Masala
- Take 2 teaspoons kashmiri chilli powder
- Take 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- Prepare to taste salt
- Take 2 tablespoons thick yoghurt
- Make ready 1/2 cup coconut milk
- Take for Biriyani Rice
- Take 4 cups basmati rice
- Prepare 1 tablespoon ghee
- Make ready 8 cardamom pods
- Take 8 cloves
- Get 2 inches cinnamon stick
- Get 2 bay leaves
- Get 10 peppercorns
- Prepare 1 star anise
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Make ready For Layering
- Get 1/2 cup chopped coriander leaves
- Get 1/2 cup chopped mint leaves
- Make ready 1/4 cup cashews (roasted in ghee)
- Take 1/2 juice of lemon
- Make ready 1 tablespoon Kewra water (essence of screw pine)
- Prepare 1/2 cup fried onions
- Prepare 5 boiled eggs (cut in half)
- Make ready Few stands of saffron soaked in milk
- Prepare as required dough made of all-purpose flour / whole wheat flour to seal the pot
Instructions 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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