BIRIYANI, CHICKEN, KERALA STYLE, foodie_engineer3

  Chicken Biriyani            

                       



Ingredients 

  1.      Chicken –1kg  cut medium pieces   
  2.      Coconut oil  – 3tbsp + ghee 
  3.      Ginger garlic paste – 2tbsp  
  4.      Onion - 3 cups , 1 large cut slice and fried the onion until it is brown.
  5.      Spices - green cardamon– 5 ,cloves –3, cinnamon stick–1 inch broken, Bayleaf –1(optional)
  6.      yogurt – 1\4 cup
  7.     Turmeric powder– 1/2 tsp
  8.     Chilly powder –1 tsp
  9.     Coriander powder – 1 tsp
  10.     Pepper powder – 1/2 tsp
  11.     Garam masala powder– 1 tsp
  12.     Salt – to taste
  13.     Saffron – 1 pinch(optional)

          Rice

  14. Basmati Rice –2 cups (soaked in water for  at least 15 minutes and then drained )

  15. Spices – bay leaves –2 , cloves–6 , green cardamon–5, cinnamon stick –1 inch broken piece

  16. Ghee –1 tbsp

  17. Salt – to taste

  18. add lemon juice - 1tbsp

   To layer

 19. Fried onions –1/2 cup

 20. Ghee or oil –1 tbsp

 21. Coriander leaves – 1/2 pinch

 22. Mint leaves– 1/2 pinch

 23. Cashew nuts 

 24. Raisins

      Method


Step 1– Take a Kadai / heavy bottomed pan. Heat coconut oil +ghee, add spices and stir it for little seconds until fragrant. then add chicken pieces and salt.cook for 5 -6 minutes.add ginger garlic paste and salute well.cook for a few minutes till the raw smell disappears.add 1/4 cup yogurt, onion and spice powder salute it well.cook for few minutes oil separates

Step 2- Then add 1/4 cup of hot water, then cover and cook the chicken in a low flame.then check the taste for salt.add drained rice and cook until the rice 90% cooked.

Step 3– Take a heavy bottomed vessel.add 1 tbsp ghee and spread the cooked chicken and layered with hot cooked rice and top with ghee, fried onions, mint leaves and coriander leaves.cover it tightly with a flour /aluminum foil.Bake for 20 minutes in a high flame.Bring down the heat to the medium flame and cook for 10 minutes.turn off the flame and rest for 10minutes in the biriyani pot. Delicious biriyani ready toserve.....😍

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