Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, malabari chicken biriyani. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The famed Malabar Chicken Biryani is made by layering an aromatic and herby chicken masala with fluffy rice, crunchy fried onions (birista), nuts, dried fruits and ghee in a large pot. Malabar Chicken biryani is a special and very tasty chicken biryani recipe. This biryani has cooked spicy chicken masala layered between rice with fried onions and whole pot is placed on dum.
Malabari Chicken Biriyani is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Malabari Chicken Biriyani is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have malabari chicken biriyani using 35 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Malabari Chicken Biriyani:
- Prepare For chicken curry
- Take 2 lbs boneless and skinless chicken thighs cut into bite size pieces
- Take 1 large onion chopped fine
- Prepare 1.5 tablespoons ginger garlic paste
- Prepare 3 green chillies chopped
- Get 3/4 cup coriander leaves,chopped
- Make ready 1/2 cup mint leaves,chopped
- Take 1.5 tablespoon canola oil/ ghee
- Take 2 large tomatoes finely chopped
- Get 1 tablespoon Garam Masala
- Take 2 teaspoons kashmiri chilli powder
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- Take to taste salt
- Take 2 tablespoons thick yoghurt
- Get 1/2 cup coconut milk
- Get for Biriyani Rice
- Take 4 cups basmati rice
- Get 1 tablespoon ghee
- Get 8 cardamom pods
- Make ready 8 cloves
- Take 2 inches cinnamon stick
- Prepare 2 bay leaves
- Take 10 peppercorns
- Prepare 1 star anise
- Get to taste Salt
- Take For Layering
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped coriander leaves
- Prepare 1/2 cup chopped mint leaves
- Take 1/4 cup cashews (roasted in ghee)
- Make ready 1/2 juice of lemon
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Kewra water (essence of screw pine)
- Get 1/2 cup fried onions
- Get 5 boiled eggs (cut in half)
- Prepare Few stands of saffron soaked in milk
- Prepare as required dough made of all-purpose flour / whole wheat flour to seal the pot
Although the 'Hyderabadi Dum Biriyani' may be tagged as "The most famous Biriyani ", I know many Kerala food enthusiasts will make a good argument to the contrary. There are very few people who do not relish a biryani. I am a total lover of everything rice and biryanis are my all time favourite. Thus Malabar Chicken dum biryani / Malabar chicken biriyani is always something very special as it is made with a special rice called khaima.
Instructions to make Malabari Chicken Biriyani:
- To start with the chicken curry, sauce onion in a frying pan till it turns light brown. Add green chillies, ginger-garlic paste and sauce till it blends well and is aromatic.
- Now add the mint and coriander leaves and mix well. Add tomatoes to this mixture and cook coved on low flame till it's all well incorporated. Add all the dry spices and mix well. Sautè for a few minutes for the spices to be well absorbed.
- Add yoghurt to this mixture and mix well. Now add the chicken pieces and sauce till all pieces are well coated in this mixture. Cooked covered on low flame till the chicken pieces are cooked. Finish the curry by adding coconut milk and mixing well.
- To prepare the rice, soak rice in cold water for 30 minutes and drain well. Pour ghee in a deep pan and sauce all the whole spices till aromatic. Add rice, salt and sautè well for a few minutes. This ensures that the rice doesn't turn out sticky. Add 4 cups of cold water. We want the rice to be almost cooked, not fully cooked. Cook the rice covered on low flame till it's fluffy and almost done.Pick out all the whole spices from the rice.
- Choose a wide container with a secure lid to layer the biriyani. Start layering the biriyani by putting a thin layer of rice, topped with an even layer of chicken curry. Add another layer of rice, topped with fried onions, mint, coriander, cashews. Repeat the process till the top layer. Garnish the top most layer of rice with mint, coriander, cashews, kewra, lemon juice. pour saffron milk on 1/2 cup of rice and to the top layer. Arrange the egg half on top, yolk side down.
- Seal the mouth of the lid with dough to make it air tight. Put in a preheated oven (350 degrees farheight)
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