Name: Chicken Biryani/Biriyani recipe by Sukhmani Bedi at BetterButter
Cook time: 120 min
Total time: 120 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1.5 Kgs Chicken cut into large pieces; garlic 50 grams; ginger 100 grams; red chillies 4; cumin seeds 3 tsp; cardamom 6 (green); black cardamom 4; nutmeg 1/2; ghee 300 grams; water 4 cups; salt to taste; rice 1 kg; rose water 1 tsp; biryani masala powder 2 tsp; 2 small onions thinly sliced (approx. 50 grams)

Wash and clean the chicken thoroughly. Grind together garlic, ginger, whole red chillies, green cardamoms and black cardamoms and nutmeg in a grinder.

In a large bowl, marinate the chicken pieces with yoghurt and ground spices mixed for 3 hours

Heat ghee in a large bottom pan and saute the onion slices until they become golden brown in colour.

Add the marinated chicken with the marinade juice and stir fry. Add water and salt and simmer over medium flame until the meat becomes tender and also keeping in mind that it doesn’t stick at the bottom of the pan.

In another pan, bring plenty of water to boil and cook the rice. Add salt. When the rice is half done, Drain and strain the rice.

In another deep bottomed pan, Arrange the meat pieces in a single layer leaving no space in between the pieces. Pour over a half cup ghee, sprinkle red chilli powder, biryani masala.

Spread the rice evenly over this layer and a bit of rice water. Pour over the rose water evenly

Seal the lid of the pan with dough and let it cook over low flame for 30mins.

When the Biryani is done, open the lid and stir the meat and rice together.

Serve hot, with raita or kebabs.

Chicken Biryani/Biriyani - Reviews

Recent Reviews

4.5

22 Reviews

May-18-2018

Yummyyy

Apr-30-2018

Where is yoghurt in ingredients???

Aug-22-2017

Temptating

Aug-04-2017

Lajawab.....

Aug-03-2017

Nice racipe

Feb-25-2017

Going to try the menu today.. Let's hope it works fine.

Nov-02-2016

Can you mention water measurement in ml or litre? Also instead of biriyani masala, can we add raw cinnamon and lavangam? If so, what will be the measurements of them?