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Chicken Biryani

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Chicken Biryani — a recipe imported from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Yield 2

Ingredients

  • 2 cups rice (preferably Basmati)
  • 500 g (1 lb) chicken
  • 6 tablespoons oil
  • 300 ml (10 oz) yoghurt
  • 3 cloves of garlic, crushed and chopped
  • 1.5 cm ginger, peeled and sliced
  • 5 large onions, chopped
  • ½ cup tomatoes, puréed
  • 2 chiles, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 5–6 strands saffron
  • 8 cloves
  • 10 cm (4 inches) cinnamon stick
  • 5 black pepper corns
  • 8 cardamom pods
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • Salt to taste

Instructions

  1. 1
    Cook soaked and washed rice.
  2. 2
    Marinate the chicken in lemon juice, yoghurt, ginger, garlic, salt, turmeric powder, cumin powder, cloves, chillis, chopped tomatoes, and tomato purée.
  3. 3
    Heat oil in a pan, add onions, and cook until onions turn golden brown. Add these to the chicken.
  4. 4
    Grease a heavy-bottomed deep and wide mouthed pan. Add a layer of rice. Put in the chicken mixture, top with the rest of the rice, and put the saffron on top.
  5. 5
    Bake in the oven for 1–1½ hours at 150°C (300°F); cut into a piece of chicken to see if it is cooked.
  6. 6
    Serve the biryani with yoghurt on the side.
Category
Entree/Main
Method
Baking
Cuisine
Indian

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Chicken_Biryani