I have already shared with you 2 different versions of Chicken Biryani. Today I will share with you 1 more version. This involves onion tomato gravy. This is equally delicious. Do give it a try. Please do post your comments below how it turns out.
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 40 minutes
Ingredients:
- Chicken 400 gm
- Yoghurt 1/2 cup
- Ginger garlic paste
- Green Chillies
- Rice 2 cups washed
- Whole Spices - 1 Bayleaf, 1 inch cinnamon stick, 5 black peppercons, 3 cloves, 2 tsp shahi jeera, 1 star anise, 1 javitri, 3 cardamom pods
- Oil
- Salt
- Onions 2
- Tomatoes 2
- Browned Onions
- Red Chilli Powder
- Garam Masala
- Biryani Masala
- few strands of saffron in 1/4 cup milk
- Corriander leaves
- Mint leaves
- ghee
1. Marination
- Clean the chicken. Cut the chicken into small pieces. Marinate it with salt to taste, 2 tsp ginger garlic paste, 1 tbsp. red chili powder, 1 tsp garam masala, 1 tsp Biryani Masala, 1/2 cup yoghurt, green chilies, chopped coriander leaves, chopped mint leaves & 1 tbsp ghee. Set it aside for at least 30 minutes.
- Also soak rice for at least 30 minutes.
- Check the recipe for browned onions here
- Grind 2 onions & 2 tomatoes.
- Heat oil in a pan. Add the ground onion tomato paste to it. Cover & cook on medium heat for 10 minutes. Stir in between to avoid sticking of the gravy to the pan.
- Add the marinated chicken to the cooked onion tomato paste in the pan. Cook it for 10 minutes. There will be a lot of gravy in the pan. Once the chicken is cooked, remove some gravy in a bowl. Set it aside.
- Put a large vessel of boiling water. In a muslin cloth, add all whole spices except shahi jeera in a muslin cloth & tie them. Put these tied muslin cloth of whole spices in boiling water. Also add the shahi jeera & oil in the boiling water. Drain the water from the soaked rice. Put these soaked rice in boiling water. Let it boil till almost 90% done. Now Drain the water. Get rid of the whole spices. Season the rice with salt. Mix the rice carefully without breaking the grains of rice. Set it aside.
- Once the chicken is cooked. Add the almost cooked rice over it.
- Sprinkle some biryani masala over it.
- Add the saffron milk, browned onions & chopped coriander leaves over the rice.
- Cover the pan with a tight lid.
- Cook it on lowest flame for 10 minutes.
- This will make the chicken & rice layers to mix with each other.
- Serve hot with the gravy we set aisde !!
- You can definitely use Chicken drumsticks. Just the cooking time will vary.
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