Malabari Chicken Biriyani
Malabari Chicken Biriyani

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, malabari chicken biriyani. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. 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 on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Malabari Chicken Biriyani is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook malabari chicken biriyani using 35 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Malabari Chicken Biriyani:
  1. Prepare For chicken curry
  2. Get 2 lbs boneless and skinless chicken thighs cut into bite size pieces
  3. Make ready 1 large onion chopped fine
  4. Take 1.5 tablespoons ginger garlic paste
  5. Take 3 green chillies chopped
  6. Get 3/4 cup coriander leaves,chopped
  7. Take 1/2 cup mint leaves,chopped
  8. Get 1.5 tablespoon canola oil/ ghee
  9. Prepare 2 large tomatoes finely chopped
  10. Get 1 tablespoon Garam Masala
  11. Take 2 teaspoons kashmiri chilli powder
  12. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
  13. Get to taste salt
  14. Take 2 tablespoons thick yoghurt
  15. Get 1/2 cup coconut milk
  16. Take for Biriyani Rice
  17. Take 4 cups basmati rice
  18. Make ready 1 tablespoon ghee
  19. Prepare 8 cardamom pods
  20. Prepare 8 cloves
  21. Make ready 2 inches cinnamon stick
  22. Prepare 2 bay leaves
  23. Make ready 10 peppercorns
  24. Prepare 1 star anise
  25. Take to taste Salt
  26. Take For Layering
  27. Take 1/2 cup chopped coriander leaves
  28. Get 1/2 cup chopped mint leaves
  29. Get 1/4 cup cashews (roasted in ghee)
  30. Make ready 1/2 juice of lemon
  31. Get 1 tablespoon Kewra water (essence of screw pine)
  32. Prepare 1/2 cup fried onions
  33. Take 5 boiled eggs (cut in half)
  34. Prepare Few stands of saffron soaked in milk
  35. Take 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.

Steps to make Malabari Chicken Biriyani:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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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