Chicken Biryani

Chicken Biryani


I am sharing a recipe of making "Chicken Biryani".It's a South Asian dish.Made with chicken and rice.It's a delicious and one of my favorite dishes.It tastes really good when it's spicy.People from different region in Southeast Asia has their own ways of making it.Usually my mom cooks it for me.But this is my second attempt and its was not that bad.Try it if you like spicy food you are going to love it.

Ingredients:

1kg basmathi rice (soaked for 4 hours with diced carrot, almond, cashew and raisins)
1 carrot
1 chicken cut into 12 pieces
Tomatoes, half is diced and the other portion is sliced thinly
Green chilies - sliced
3 inches of fresh ginger processed with garlic
3/4 cup cooking oil
1 lemon
1/2 cup each for fresh mint, scallion, Chinese parsley and fresh coriander leaves
1/2 cup yogurt

3 tbs melted Ghee (clarified butter)

spices:

1 tbs briyani powder mix 

2 tbs coriander powder

1 tsp chili powder

1/2 tsp anise powder

1 tsp cumin powder

2 cinnamon stick (half is grounded, the other used whole)

5 pieces of dried  Bay leaves

Instruction:

Heat cooking oil in the wok.Cook the onions until golden brown,set aside the onions for later use.Mix the powdered spices together with grounded spices until fragrant.Add diced tomatoes and chicken pieces.When chicken pieces are half cooked, add in processed garlic and ginger.Mix well then add in 1/2 cup yogurt.Remove half of the chicken pieces

Put half of the rice on to of the remaining chicken pieces in the wok.Layer with half the fresh herbs, fried onions and sliced tomatoes.Sprinkle saffron and melted Ghee.

Cover the wok and cook over very very slow fire for about 20 minutes.Chicken Biryani is ready to serve.