Malabar Chicken Biryani Recipe

Malabar Chicken Biryani Recipe

Ingredients

For Malabar Chicken Biryani Recipe

Basmathi rice 3 cups
Chicken 500 grams
Onion (payaz), chopped 2 cups
Green chilly (hari mirch) 10
Tomato (tamater) chopped ¾ cup
Ginger garlic (adrakh lahsan) paste 2 table spoons
Coriander powder (dhaniya) 2 table spoons
Turmeric powder (haldi) ¼ tea spoon
Red chilli (lal mirch) powder 1 tea spoon
Coriander leaves (hara dhaniya), chopped 5-6 table spoons
Mint (pudina) leaves, chopped 4 table spoons
Curd (dahi) 1 cup
Salt (namak) To taste

For Biryani masala

Green chilly (hari mirch), chopped 4 table spoons
Cinnamon (dalchini) 1” piece
Cloves (laung) 4-5
Fennel (saunf) 1 tea spoon
Cardamom (elaichi)  2
Peppercorn (kali mirch) 8-10

For Rice

Onion (payaz), sliced 1 cup
Black cumin seeds (shahi jeera) 1 tea spoon
Cinnamon stick (dalchini) 1” piece
Bay leaves (tej patta) 2
Cashew nuts( kaju) 8-10
Resins (kismis) 8- 10
Green Cardamom (hari elaichi)  3
Clarified butter (ghee) 100 gram
Milk (doodh) 250 ml
Saffron (kesar) 1 pinch
Water 500 ml
Salt (namak) To taste

Instructions

  1. Heat a pan and dry roast the biryani masala and grind them.
  2. Heat 3-4 table spoons of clarified butter in a saucepan; add onions and sauté it till golden brown colour.
  3. Then add tomatoes and sauté well.
  4. Now add ginger garlic paste, curd and biriyani masala and cook till oil gets separated.
  5. Then add mint leaves, red chilli, turmeric powder and coriander powder and stir it.
  6. Add the chicken pieces and salt cook chicken becomes soft.
  7. Once it is done, add coriander leaves and put the flame off.

For Rice

  • 1. Soak the rice about 10 minutes and drain well.
  • 2. Melt ghee in a saucepan and black cumin, cinnamon and bay leaf and stir it.
  • 3. Now add sliced onion, cashew nuts, raisins and sauté till brown in colour.
  • 4. Add milk and water. Allow to boil and then add rice and salt.
  • 5. Lower the heat, cover and continue to cook for 15 minutes.

To proceed

  • 1. Soak saffron in 2 table spoon of milk.
  • 2. Take another saucepan and place half the rice into it.
  • 3. Then add the chicken on the top of the rice.
  • 4. Now add remaining rice on top of the chicken and spread it evenly.
  • 5. Now pour saffron milk on top.
  • 6. Place little clarified butter, fried onion, cashew nuts and raisins on the surface and cover tightly.
  • 7. Cook it on low flame for 30 minutes.
  • 8. Now put the flame off and enjoy “Malabar Chicken Biryani”.

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