Monday, September 15, 2008

Chicken Briyani

Ingredients
1 1/2 cup Basmati Rice
1 cup Chicken pieces
2 onion, chopped lengthwise
3 to 4 Tomatoes, chopped
1/2 cup Mint leaves
1/2 cup Coriander leaves
2 green cardamom
1 stick Cinnamon
1 Clove
Few Bay leaves
2 tsp Ghee
1/2 Lemon
Salt
Oil
To Make Paste
3 stick cinnamon
2 Cloves
10 Garlic pods
1" Ginger
Few curry leaves
Method
Grind all the ingredients together given in to make paste. Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, bay leaves to it. Add mint and corriander leves to it. Then add chopped onion and fry to a golden brown. Add tomatoes to it and fry for 2 minutes. Now add the grinded paste to it and fry till the raw smell goes off. Add chicken pieces to it and mix well. Add 1/2 cup water to it and stir it. Pressure cook for 3 whistles. Then remove the pressure and lid then add rice to it, add enough water and mix well and pressure cook for 2 whistles. When pressure got released remove the lid add 2 tsp ghee and squeeze 1/2 a lemon to it and mix well. Serve hot.
Served with chicken curry and onion pachadi. Check for chicken curry recipe here.

8 comments :

notyet100 said...

nice recipe,..

Unknown said...

Nice recipe... looks gr8..

Illatharasi said...

Looks tempting.... want to have the plate.....;)

Indian Khana said...

Gud thali..looks nice

Ramya Vijaykumar said...

Good one Valar.

Srikitchen said...

its first time to ur blog and it looks so nice! come and join in the chicken event going in my blog!

Unknown said...

Have something for u in my blog..

Sanghi said...

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