Friday, September 10, 2010




Masala Chicken Biryani

Ingredients:
Chicken – ½ kg
Rice – ½ kg
Green chillies – 6
Onion – 2 medium
Ghee – 125g
Ginger garlic paste – 4 tbsp
Yogurt – 375g
Turmeric powder – 2 tbsp
Red chilli powder – 1 tbsp
Garam masala powder – 1 tbsp
Cumin powder – 1 tbsp
Coriander powder – 1tbsp
Whole masala – 10 green cardamoms, 4 cinnamon sticks, 5 big cardamoms,
bay leaves, 1 tsp cumin seeds, 20 whole black peppers and 6 star
anis.
Method:
Take a pan and put ghee or oil and heat it up. Then put thinly sliced onion and fry until it turns pink and soft, then add whole masala and fry until it is golden brown, then put ginger garlic paste and fry for 2 minutes. Now add chicken and fry a little, then put all dry spices, coriander powder, red chilli powder, cumin powder, turmeric powder, garam masala powder and salt, and fry well, then add chopped green chillies and yogurt and cook well.
Boil rice in another pan and drain water. When chicken is well cooked and the water dries a little bit, spread boiled rice, and on top spread 1 tbsp of ghee and put on dum for 20 minutes, first on heat then reduce heat after a while. Serve with salad and raita.

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