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Chicken Biryani

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 2 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dinner, Baked

Tags: baked, indian, main course, medium difficulty, recipes for biryani, recipes using chicken, recipes using cumin, recipes using rice, recipes using yogurt, recipes with images, recipes with metric units, recipes without cooking time

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AChicken_Biryani)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AChicken%20Biryani&oldid=4517373

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 2 cups rice (preferably Basmati)
  • 500 g (1 lb) chicken
  • 6 tablespoons oil
  • 300 ml (10 oz) yoghurt
  • 3 cloves of garlic, crushed and chopped
  • 1.5 cm ginger, peeled and sliced
  • 5 large onions, chopped
  • ½ cup tomatoes, puréed
  • 2 chiles, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 5–6 strands saffron
  • 8 cloves
  • 10 cm (4 inches) cinnamon stick
  • 5 black pepper corns
  • 8 cardamom pods
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • Salt to taste

Directions

  1. Cook soaked and washed rice.
  2. Marinate the chicken in lemon juice, yoghurt, ginger, garlic, salt, turmeric powder, cumin powder, cloves, chillis, chopped tomatoes, and tomato purée.
  3. Heat oil in a pan, add onions, and cook until onions turn golden brown. Add these to the chicken.
  4. Grease a heavy-bottomed deep and wide mouthed pan. Add a layer of rice. Put in the chicken mixture, top with the rest of the rice, and put the saffron on top.
  5. Bake in the oven for 1–1½ hours at 150°C (300°F); cut into a piece of chicken to see if it is cooked.
  6. Serve the biryani with yoghurt on the side.