Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, kayikkante biryani / kayees rahmathulla hotel style chicken biryani / kaikka’s biryani. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
The actual name of the hotel is Kayees Rahmathulla hotel and the signature biriyani they serve is known as Kayikkante biriyani. Great recipe for Kayikkante Biryani / Kayees Rahmathulla Hotel Style Chicken Biryani / Kaikka's Biryani. #biryanirecipe A homely version of the lip-smacking biryani from the famous Kayees Rahmathulla Restaurant in Mattancherry, Fort Cochin-Kerala-India. The restaurant is a paradise for all.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have kayikkante biryani / kayees rahmathulla hotel style chicken biryani / kaikka’s biryani using 31 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Kayikkante Biryani / Kayees Rahmathulla Hotel Style Chicken Biryani / Kaikka’s Biryani:
- Prepare 1kg Chicken cleaned and cut into medium size pieces (you could replace it with mutton also)
- Make ready 2 cups Basmati rice
- Get 8-10, Shallots / pearl onions finely chopped
- Get 5 Onions thinly sliced
- Make ready 8 Green chilies finely chopped
- Take 2 tablespoon Ginger-garlic paste
- Prepare 2 Tomato finely chopped
- Get 1 Lemon
- Prepare 1/2 cup Curd
- Take 1 teaspoon Cumin seeds
- Make ready 2 teaspoon Garam masala
- Get 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder
- Take 1 teaspoon Chilli powder
- Prepare 2 teaspoon Coriander powder
- Get 2 Bay leaves
- Prepare 1 Cinnamon stick
- Prepare 5 pieces Cloves
- Get 5 pieces Cardamom pods
- Make ready 2 pieces Star Anise
- Prepare 2 slices Pineapple finely chopped
- Take To taste Salt
- Make ready 5 tablespoon Ghee/clarified butter
- Make ready As needed Oil
- Make ready 100 gram Cashew nuts
- Get 100 gram Raisins
- Get 1 bunch Mint leaves finely chopped
- Take 1 bunch Coriander leaves finely chopped
- Prepare 6 Almonds soaked and skin removed
- Prepare 1/2 cup Coconut milk (optional)
- Prepare 5-6strands saffron (optional)
- Prepare 4 cups Water
Instructions to make Kayikkante Biryani / Kayees Rahmathulla Hotel Style Chicken Biryani / Kaikka’s Biryani:
- Marinate the chicken pieces with turmeric powder, chilli powder, and salt. Leave it aside for 30 mins. In a heavy bottomed pan, heat ghee. Add half of the sliced onions and fry them until golden brown. Drain them on a paper towel and keep aside. Add the cashews and raisins and fry them. Drain them on paper towel and keep aside.
- Add oil to the pan and saute the remaining of the sliced onions until golden brown. Add ginger-garlic paste and the chopped shallots and saute well until the raw smell goes away and it becomes golden in colour. Add the chopped tomatoes and mix well until soft and mushy. Add turmeric powder, garam masala powder, and salt and fry until the oil separates.
- Add the marinated chicken and curd and mix well. Add half of the chopped coriander and mint leaves and mix well. Cover and cook for 15-20 mins on until the chicken is cooked well. Switch off the flame and keep aside.
- Wash the basmati rice and soak in water for 20 mins. In a deep-bottomed vessel, boil 4 cups of water with salt, cardamom pods, cloves, cinnamon stick, cumin seeds, and star anise. Drain the rice, and add it to the boiled water with the spices and allow it to cook until it is done three fourth. Drain the rice and keep it aside.
- Grind the soaked almonds along with coconut milk. Add saffron strands to the almond-coconut milk mixture and keep it ready for sprinkling over the dum.
- Spread ghee in a biryani pot. Layer half of the rice. Add half of the chopped coriander + mint leaves and the almond-coconut milk mixture. Spread the chicken masala over the rice. Finally layer the remaining rice over the chicken masala. Sprinkle some ghee, the remaining almond coconut mixture, coriander + mint leaves, chopped pineapple, and fried cashews + raisins + fried onions.
- Seal the lid of the biryani pot with maida dough or with a tight lid and cook it on low flame for 20 mins. Open and serve the delicious Kayikkante biryani with raita and pickle.
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