Chicken briyani with onion tomato pachadi (raita). |
Ingredients:
Chicken - 1/2 kg
Other Ingredients:
Basmathi rice / Jeeraga samba raw rice - 1/2 kg (3 cup)salt - to taste
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
chilly powder - 1 tsp
Red onion - 1 (big)
green chillis - 6 (slit).
Lemon - 1/4
water - (rice x 2) - 2 = (3x2) - 2 = 4
(this is for cooker. For dum process it is 'minus 1')
curd - 1/2 cup
garam masala / briyani masala powder - 2 tsp
To temper: (whole spices)
bay leaves - 2cashew nuts -10
raisins- 10.
ghee - 5 tbsp
Masala 1:
Tomato - 2Masala 2:
cilantro- 20 tender plants
mint leaf -1 cup leaves
green chilly - 10
cashew - 5
Masala 3:
Ginger - 2 inchGarlic - 1 full
Preparation:
Buy chicken red meat(thighs, wings, drumsticks with skin and bone). Breast piece won't give the proper taste.wash and clean the chicken and cut into big pieces.
Add curd, turmeric powder, salt, chilly powder and marinate for 1 - 3 hours.
Wash the rice and soak it for 1/2 an hour.
Grind all the pastes separately.
Chop onion, chilly into long thin slices and keep aside.
Method:
Heat ghee in a broad vessel or cooker.Add the bay leaves and items given under tempering.
Then goes the chopped onion .
Fry it till golden brown and add the ginger garlic paste and stir well till the raw smell goes.
Now add the tomato paste and cook till the oil oozes out of it.
Then add the cilantro , mint paste and cook till the oil start oozing out. Now put the marinated chicken and add salt, powdered garam masala. Cook covered in low heat till oil separates. Check the taste now. It should be little more salty.
Now add the soaked rice and uncut green chillies to the cooker vessel along with the prepared masala. Squeeze some lime juice over. Fry for a minute.
Before this start boiling the require water separately and pour water to rice, mix well. Let it come to a boil.(Boiling the water before adding helps in evenly cooking the rice , otherwise sometimes we get some uncooked rice while making briyani).
Close with the cooker lid and put a pressure valve.
(I use a cooker vessel inside the cooker and pour some water around the base cooker, just like idly cooking. Mine is a 10 liter cooker, but we can prepare it directly in cooker if we have a small pressure cooker).
Wait till a whistle comes. Reduce the flame to medium and cook for exactly 5 minutes. Switch off and open lid once the pressure is gone completely (5 minutes).
Add a little ghee over the biriyani and wait for 5 minutes. Don't stir for first 5 minutes (makes it mushy).
Chicken biriyani in cooker is ready!
Serving suggestions:
Take out the briyani carefully without mashing the whole rice and serve hot.Serve hot chicken biryani with onion raitha and a gravy / fry.
Serves 4 people or more people.
9 comments:
Yummy looking chicken biriyani. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Deepa
Super tempting chicken briyani, my mom do quite often cook briyani in cooker, beautifully done.
wow..super tempting n delicious biriyani..
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very flavourful and delicious biryani dear :)
Easy chicken biriyani..Yumm.
Wow, I am exciteded to see biryani in a cooker. Really tempting & yummy!
Delicious chicken biriyani, looks so inviting.
Viki I desperately need a plate now with egg kuruma please :) Yummm!!
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Quick yet Superb Chicken Biryani! Never made in cooker, will try this...
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-Mythreyi
Yum! Yum! Yum!
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