Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, malabari chicken biriyani. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Malabari Chicken Biriyani is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Malabari Chicken Biriyani is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook malabari chicken biriyani using 35 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Malabari Chicken Biriyani:
- Take For chicken curry
- Prepare 2 lbs boneless and skinless chicken thighs cut into bite size pieces
- Make ready 1 large onion chopped fine
- Prepare 1.5 tablespoons ginger garlic paste
- Make ready 3 green chillies chopped
- Make ready 3/4 cup coriander leaves,chopped
- Take 1/2 cup mint leaves,chopped
- Prepare 1.5 tablespoon canola oil/ ghee
- Get 2 large tomatoes finely chopped
- Make ready 1 tablespoon Garam Masala
- Get 2 teaspoons kashmiri chilli powder
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- Get to taste salt
- Take 2 tablespoons thick yoghurt
- Get 1/2 cup coconut milk
- Prepare for Biriyani Rice
- Make ready 4 cups basmati rice
- Prepare 1 tablespoon ghee
- Make ready 8 cardamom pods
- Prepare 8 cloves
- Take 2 inches cinnamon stick
- Take 2 bay leaves
- Make ready 10 peppercorns
- Take 1 star anise
- Get to taste Salt
- Prepare For Layering
- Get 1/2 cup chopped coriander leaves
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped mint leaves
- Prepare 1/4 cup cashews (roasted in ghee)
- Prepare 1/2 juice of lemon
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Kewra water (essence of screw pine)
- Take 1/2 cup fried onions
- Prepare 5 boiled eggs (cut in half)
- Make ready Few stands of saffron soaked in milk
- Get as required dough made of all-purpose flour / whole wheat flour to seal the pot
Malabar chicken biriyani is a very famous main course of indian cuisine. Mughlai cuisine had a significant influence upon Malabar recipes. Hence you can find lot of similarities in almost all the dishes. Malabar side dishes are very spicy and famous for its variety in preparation of non-vegetarian dishes.
Instructions to make Malabari Chicken Biriyani:
- To start with the chicken curry, sauce onion in a frying pan till it turns light brown. Add green chillies, ginger-garlic paste and sauce till it blends well and is aromatic.
- Now add the mint and coriander leaves and mix well. Add tomatoes to this mixture and cook coved on low flame till it's all well incorporated. Add all the dry spices and mix well. Sautè for a few minutes for the spices to be well absorbed.
- Add yoghurt to this mixture and mix well. Now add the chicken pieces and sauce till all pieces are well coated in this mixture. Cooked covered on low flame till the chicken pieces are cooked. Finish the curry by adding coconut milk and mixing well.
- To prepare the rice, soak rice in cold water for 30 minutes and drain well. Pour ghee in a deep pan and sauce all the whole spices till aromatic. Add rice, salt and sautè well for a few minutes. This ensures that the rice doesn't turn out sticky. Add 4 cups of cold water. We want the rice to be almost cooked, not fully cooked. Cook the rice covered on low flame till it's fluffy and almost done.Pick out all the whole spices from the rice.
- Choose a wide container with a secure lid to layer the biriyani. Start layering the biriyani by putting a thin layer of rice, topped with an even layer of chicken curry. Add another layer of rice, topped with fried onions, mint, coriander, cashews. Repeat the process till the top layer. Garnish the top most layer of rice with mint, coriander, cashews, kewra, lemon juice. pour saffron milk on 1/2 cup of rice and to the top layer. Arrange the egg half on top, yolk side down.
- Seal the mouth of the lid with dough to make it air tight. Put in a preheated oven (350 degrees farheight)
Malabar Chicken Biriyani is a non vegetarian rice dish that has taken over the food world. This delicacy from the Malabar region of Kerala is very popular, especially amongst Biriyani lovers. Marinate the chicken with the poppy seed mixture, ginger, garlic, chili, and all the other spices and ingredients except the onions, biryani masala and herb leaves. Add salt too and keep covered for two hours at least. Chicken biriyani or mutton biriyani with the above said side dishes and chicken fries is the speciality of the Muslim weddings back in Malabar.
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