EASY CHICKEN BIRIYANI

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Now, my second recipe is going to be about an easy peasy CHICKEN BRIYANI rice. I know that whenever us girls here about these types of recipes we get scared. But I'm a biriyani fan myself. I love having biriyani for lunch. Biriyani’s are very versatile and delicious dishes. Today I'm going to teach you how to make an easy chicken biriyani. So let's get started....

INGREDIENTS 

• Rice (any kind)                                          2 cups
• Chicken                                                   300 g
• Half boiled veggies (of your preference)                  
• Tomatoes                                                 1 large
• Green chillies                                           3
• Cumin seeds                                             1 teaspoon
• Salt (to your taste)
• Cardamom (black/green)                            2
• Ginger / garlic paste                                 1 tea spoon each
• Onions                                                    1 large
• Coriander (fresh/ powder)                         2 table spoons
• Paprika (to your taste)
• Yoghurt/ curd                                          200ml
• Herbs (any kind you have)                          2 table spoons
• Butter                                                     1 ½ table spoons
• Saffron                                                    tea spoon

METHOD

1. Put your chicken in to a bowl add some salt, 100ml of yoghurt, half a tea spoon of saffron, paprika and 1 table spoon of coriander powder and let it marinate for 15mins or so.
2. Meanwhile you can cook your rice as usual by adding the cardamom, salt and the other half a tea spoon of saffron.
3. Heat a pan, add butter and let it heat for 2mins, add cumin and let it splatter.
4. So when you hear the splattering sound, add ginger & garlic paste and sauté it for 3mins.
5. Add your onion & cook them until they turn golden brown (make sure you don’t burn them).
6. At this point you could add your veggies & tomatoes & cook them along with the onions for another 6mins.
7. After 6mins add your marinated chicken mixture to your onion and veggie mixture, stir them well.
8. Add the herbs, paprika, saffron, salt, green chillies & coriander powder (cook them in a medium heat)
9. Keep checking your rice time to time.
10. Make sure that chicken curry has enough gravy; add rest of the 100ml of yoghurt
11. Let it simmer for 20mins to cook the chicken mixture.
12. So, after your chicken curry’s done, take another pan/bowl and start layering.
13. Firstly, add a nice bed of rice to the bottom of the pan and then add all half of your chicken curry, again add all half of the remaining rice and then of course the remaining chicken mixture and last of the rice.
14. Keep this mixture aside covered with a lid for 5mins.
15. And finally mix them all gently and nicely before serving.

Bon Appetit

:)