TEMPTING CHICKEN BRIYANI

Briyani is everyone favorite. We can make flavorful perfect briyani easily in home by following few key things. Mainly patience is more important to get flavorful briyani. To get every ingredients flavor in briyani, we need to saute medium low flame is until the flavor release in the gravy. We reduced the cooking time by following all the preparations before switch on the stove. Compare to pressure cooking, pot cooking gives extra flavor and taste. By following the below procedure, chicken will get full flavor of briyani

          Lets move on to the tempting chicken briyani recipe, same procedure can also follow in mutton briyani ( mutton cooking time only varies)

 INGREDIENTS

Chicken (leg quarters)  - 3 

Oil                                    - 3 Tbsp 

Ghee                               - 2 Tbsp 

Onion                               - 2 Big 

Tomato                           - 2 Big 

Green chili                      - 4- 5 

Coriander leaves           - 1/2 bunch 

Mint leaves                     - 1/2 bunch 

Yogurt ( thick)                - 1 Cup 

Ginger garlic paste       - 2 Tbsp

Turmeric                         - 1/2 Tsp 

Chilli powder                  - 2 Tsp 

Kashmiri chili powder   -  1tsp 

Biryani rice                      - 2 - 2.5  Cup 

Water                               - 2 Cup 

Salt                                  - as needed  

Garam masalas

Bay leaf                  -2

Cloves                    - 3

Green Cardamom - 2

Black cardamom  - 1

Mace                       - 1

Star anise               - 1

Cinnamon               - 2 inch 

Pepper corn            - 1 Tsp 

Cumin seeds           - 1 Tsp 

Fennel seeds           - 1 Tsp 

Black stone flower - 1

Preparations

1. Wash and cut the chicken quarters into medium size pieces.

2. Slice onion , green chili.

3. Grind fresh ginger garlic paste.

4. Wash and chop mint and coriander leaves and mixed well with chopped tomato.

5.  Beat the fresh yogurt. 

6. Wash and soak basmati rice for around 20 min ( not more than that).

PROCEDURE

1. Heat heavy bottom vessel, add oil ( I used  cold pressed groundnut oil) and 1 Tbsp ghee .

2. Once the oil and ghee heated, add the whole garam masalas and saute for a minute.

3. Then add the sliced onion and green chili,  saute in the oil in medium flame with little salt until the onion become golden brown and oil ooze out from the onion.

4. Now add in the ginger garlic paste saute in medium flame until the raw smell goes off.

5. Now it's time to add in the tomato, mint coriander mixture.

6. Now add salt, turmeric and chili powder.

7. Saute until the tomato smashed and form nice gravy consistency.

8. Now goes the beated yogurt and saute until the oil ooze out from the gravy.

9. Add in the medium sized chicken pieces.

10. Allow to cook the chicken in the gravy, hence the chicken absorbs the flavor and taste from the masala.

11. Once the chicken cooked, add in the water   (water should be equal amount to the amount of rice including the liquid amount from the gravy).

12. Add more salt and check the salt( salt should be on little higher side to get correct salt after adding rice), Allow the water to boil well.

13. Now add in the soaked rice and cook rice with lid closed in medium low flame.

14. Once the rice absorbed all the water, the rice should be cooked 90 percentage.

15. Now mix the briyani very gently without breaking the rice. 

16. Now add remaining ghee on the top of the biryani and close the lid tightly and place a weight over the lid.

17. Reduce the flame to very low.

18. Allow to thum cook for 10- 15 min.

19. Now switch off the flame.

20. Open the lid after 10 minutes to retain the  flavors.

21. Now flavorful, tasty and separate grains briyani is ready to serve.