CHICKEN BIRYANI (BIRIYANI) TAMILNADU STYLE

2:34 PM Unknown 0 Comments

INGREDIENTS

Chicken - 1 kg
(cook it separately in a cooker)
Basmati rice - 875 gm or 7 cups
Onion
(big) - 2 nos
Tomatoes(big) - 6 nos
or
Tomato puree - 6 spoon
Cinnamon(Karugapatta) sticks - 5 nos
Cloves
(Grambu) - 10 nos
Cardamom
(Elakka) - 5 nos
Green chillies
(big) - 3 nos
Ginger
- 2 thumb size or 3 - 4" piece
Garlic
- 1+1/2
Red chilly powder - 3 spoon
Turmeric powder
- 3 pinch
Garam masala powder - 3 tbsp
Coriander powder
- 3 tbsp
Mint leaves
(Pudhina) - 1 bunch
Coriander leaves
- 1/2 bunch
Butter milk(US) - 3 cups
or
Curd(India) - 3 cups
Oil
- 12 spoon
Lemon - 1 no
Ghee
- 1 spoon
Salt
- As reqd

DIRECTIONS

Step 1. Heat up a pan.

Step 2. Add oil and ghee into it.
Step 3. Add cinnamon, cardamom and cloves and fry well.
Step 4. Add green chillies and fry till skin turns white.
Step 5. Add onions and fry till golden brown.
Step 6. Add salt also.
Step 7. Add ginger-garlic paste and fry till smell goes off.
Step 8. Add red chilly powder, turmeric powder, garam masala and coriander powder and mix well for 2 mins.
Step 9. Add pudhina and coriander leaves now and mix well.
Step 10. Add chicken(boiled in cooker) now and mix well for 5 mins.
Step 11. Add tomatoes now and fry well.
Step 12. Add butter milk and mix nicely and let it boil for 2 mins.
Step 13. Add hot water or warm water and heat it till it boils.
Step 14. Add rice and mix well.
Step 15. :- The rice level mentioned is exactly 7 cups in rice cooker cup. So add double the quantity of water. Also minus the buttermilk level. So exactly for 7 cups of rice, add 11 cups of water as buttermilk level of 3 cups has been reduced.
Step 16. Squeeze lemon.
Step 17. Close Chicken Biryani with a plate and check every 5 mins to see if the rice has cooked.
Step 18. After the Chicken Biryani rice has cooked well, leave it for 5 mins.
Step 19. Mix Chicken Biryani well again.
Step 20. :- Serve Chicken Biryani hot.

0 comments: