Posted By : IamFresh

28 Mar, 2022 11:01 AM

Cooking Time : 90 Minute

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cup Arborio rice
• 2 onion
• 1 tablespoon ginger paste
• 1/3 cup hung curd
• 1 handful mint leaves
• 1 gm bay leaf
• salt as required
• 15 red chilli

• 500 gm chicken
• 2 tomato
• 2 tablespoon garlic paste
• 1 handful coriander leaves
• 2 inches cinnamon stick
• 3 green cardamom
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 3 litre water

Method 

• Step 1

  To prepare this delicious biryani recipe, wash and soak red chillies in water for 20 minutes. Then grind it into a thick paste by adding very little water. Keep aside.

• Step 2

  Similarly, wash short grain or arborio rice and chicken. Soak the rice for 30 minutes in a bowl.

• Step 3

  Boil 3 liters of water in a large dish. Once water start to boil, add 1 tspn of salt and 1 tspn of oil and then add the soaked rice.

• Step 4

  Cook it until it’s 3/4th done. Drain all the water and keep the cooked rice aside. (Do not over cook or fully cook the rice, as we would be making biryani on dum).

• Step 5

  Heat oil in a deep bottomed pan. Add 1 tspn of curd and mix well. (Be careful here the curd will splutter).

• Step 6

  Add cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves and cardamom and mix. Next add 2 tbspns of sliced onions and mix.

• Step 7

  Add ginger-garlic paste and saute until the raw smell of the paste is gone. Add chicken and cook until the color of the chicken turns white.

• Step 8

  Add chopped coriander, onions, tomatoes and mint leaves.

• Step 9

  Add ground red chili paste, salt to taste and mix well. Cook for 5 minutes and stir well.

• Step 10

  Add remaining curd, mix. Let it cook for another 2 minutes. Add half of the cooked rice on top of the chicken layer, sprinkle coriander and mint leaves.

• Step 11

  Place the dish on low heat, cover it and place a heavy item on top of the plate to trap the steam inside. Cook for another 20 minutes

• Step 12

  Serve hot with onion raita.