Thanks Sham!
Chicken Biriyani Recipe
Serves 4-6
Ingredients:
Basmati rice - 4 cups (soaked in water for 1 hour)
Chicken pieces - 1 kg
Onions - 3 large
Ginger garlic paste - 2 tbsp
Green chilies - 5 (or as per your requirement)
Pepper powder - to taste
Coriander powder - 3 tbsp
Garam masala - 1 tbsp
Cardamom - 4
Cinnamon - a 1" piece
Cloves - 4
Salt to taste
To Marinate
Pepper powder -to taste
Coriander powder - 3 tbsp
Garam masala - ¼ tsp
Salt to taste
For Seasoning
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Cashew nuts - 15 or so
Raisins - 10 or so
1 large onion
Method:
1. Chicken
Wash Chicken pieces. Marinate for atleast an hour with coriander powder, pepper powder, garam masala powder and salt.
Semi fry chicken pieces in a pan with little oil.
Heat oil and add onions and the ginger garlic paste. When it turns brown, add green chilies (cut into small pieces). Add coriander powder, pepper powder, garam masala powder and salt.
When it is done, add chicken pieces. Keep it for 5-10 mts till it is half cooked. In between you can turn the pieces so that it is heated equally.
Cook in pressure cooker with about ½ cup water. Normally 4 whistles.
Biriyani Rice
Put 2tsp ghee in the pan used to fry the chicken. Add cardamom+cloves+cinnamon.
After 2 mins, add the soaked rice. Stir well for 5 mins, else it will stick to the pan. Add the rest of the main ingredients and cook in a pressure cooker with 6 cups water (the ratio of rice:water should be 1:1.5) - normally 3 whistles for basmati rice.
Once done, mix the cooked rice and chicken.
Seasoning
Put ghee in a pan. Add onion (cut lengthwise very thin), cashew nuts and raisins. When it turns light
brown, remove and garnish the biriyani
Zareena
Yes. It is indeed awesome. Shamshad has experimented this on me and my husband (her bro) several times before posting the recipe..sigh! 🙂
Sayantani
wow superb biriyani. thanks Nags And Shamsad for this.
Ranjana
Yayy for biryani!! Look forward to making it. One question - how long does the chicken need to be marinated for?
aipi
Too bad I am a vegetarian but I can tell it is really very well made..my brother loves chicken n he will definitely gobble it up 🙂
Nags
Updated the post with the answers Alice! Thanks for pointing it out 🙂
Nags
Haha thanks so much Zareena (chechy?) Looking forward to your Hyderabadi Biriyani recipes!!
Nags
Ranju, marinate for atleast an hour. I have updated the post 🙂
Nags
Hello Sri, as I have mentioned in the post, she got the idea from Awesome Cuisine but has added her own variations. She is from Kerala and a Muslim so maybe her own touches are in line with that. Its definitely not a family recipe 🙂
Sri
Nags, is this recipe authentic to a particular part of the country? or is this her family recipe?
Sharmilee! :)
What a coincidence amma made chick biriyani yest and I see ur friends biriyani here.....looks yum.