Biryani Chicken Recipe
Biryani
Biryani is a group of classic dishes that date back to the Mughal Empire. The main ingredients of biryani are rice (ideally basmati), spices, meat, eggs or vegetables and numerous optional ingredients such as dried fruits, nuts and yogurt.
Mumtaz Mahal, queen of Emperor Shah Jahan, is believed to have inspired the dish in the 1600s. The word Biryani is derived from the Persian word birian, meaning fried or roasted, and the dish came to India from Iran through groups of merchants and immigrants.
Over time, the popularity of biryani spread to India and other countries, so today there is a wide variety of biryanis available, such as sindhi biryani (made with yogurt), Bombay biryani (with lots of spices and kevra) or Lucknowi biryani.
Once a dish reserved for royalty, the dish is now served in almost every Indian restaurant as one of their signature dishes, flavored with cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaves, coriander or mint leaves, giving it a unique flavor and making biryani the best choice. .
Biryani Recipe
Ingredients for Biryani / Serves 4
1.2 kg chicken
700 g boiled rice
1 glass of water
1 cup of cooking oil
1 teaspoon garlic and ginger paste
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons of paprika
4 teaspoons biryani masala
2 bay leaves
2 chopped red onions
How To Make Biryani
Red Onions
Take a wok and add half a glass of oil over medium-high heat. Add half a chopped onion to the heated oil. Cook until dark brown. After frying, put it in a bowl.
Chicken
Put half a cup of oil in a large wok over medium-high heat. Now add 4 tablespoons of biryani masala and garlic paste to the oil. Add salt, red and black pepper. Add the bay leaf and cook for 5 to 10 minutes. Now add chicken and half a glass of water and mix these ingredients and cook well for 20 minutes. While cooking the chicken, make the regular sauce for the biryani recipe.
Biryani
After cooking the chicken with the sauce, add boiled rice to the chicken. Cover and cook for 10 minutes on low-medium heat. After 10 minutes, mix thoroughly so that all the ingredients are mixed with each other.
You can serve this recipe with raita and salad and add some pickles for more flavor. South Asian countries like to eat this recipe spicy. In the Hyderabadi biryani recipe, fried potatoes are used with chicken for extra flavor.
What is Biryani Masala
It is an Indian spice mix. Ingredients: Coriander, Salt, Cumin, Red Pepper, Black Pepper, Cassia, Clove, Laurel, Cardamom, Dried Ginger, Star Anise, Turmeric, Besbase.
