Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chicken biryani with potatoes. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chicken biryani with potatoes is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Chicken biryani with potatoes is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken biryani with potatoes using 32 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken biryani with potatoes:
- Make ready 1 1/2 cups basmati rice washed and soaked for 15 minutes
- Prepare 1 cup fried onions
- Get 2 big potatoes cut in halves
- Prepare 1 big tomato chopped
- Prepare 4-5 cloves
- Get 2 black cardamoms
- Make ready 6 green cardamoms
- Prepare 3 bay leaves
- Prepare 4 inch cinnamon sticks
- Prepare 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Take 1 star anise
- Take 2 tbsp black peppercorns
- Make ready 1 cup coriander leaves finely chopped
- Take 1 cup mint leaves finely chopped
- Prepare 4-5 chillis slit
- Prepare 1 pinch saffron
- Prepare 2 tbsp milk
- Take 6 tbsp ghee
- Make ready to taste salt
- Prepare For marinating the chicken :
- Make ready 500 g chicken on the bone
- Get 1 cup yoghurt whisked
- Take 2 tsp red chilli powder
- Prepare 1 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 tsp cumin powder
- Get 2 tsp coriander powder
- Take 3 tsp garam masala powder
- Get 2 tsp garlic paste
- Take 2 tsp ginger paste
- Take 2 tbsp lemon juice
- Take 1 tbsp mustard oil or any cooking oil
- Get 1 tsp salt to taste
Steps to make Chicken biryani with potatoes:
- Add all the marination spices and the yoghurt to the washed and cleaned chicken. Massage the chicken well with the marinade. Cover and leave it in the fridge overnight.
- Set 6 cups of water with the a tablespoon of ghee, 1 black cardamom, 3 green cardamoms, 2 bay leaves, 2 cinnamon sticks,1 tablespoon peppercorns, cumin seeds, star anise and salt to boil.
- Once the water comes to a roll boil, add the soaked basmati rice. Cook the rice until 75% done. Drain and keep aside. Warm the milk and add the saffron strands to it. Keep it aside.
- Heat a heavy bottomed pan with two tablespoons of ghee. Once hot add the cloves, 2 sticks of cinnamon, a bay leaf and 2-3 green cardamoms - When they turn fragrant, add the potatoes.
- Fry them until they get a light golden brown colour on them. Add the marinated chicken, chopped tomatoes, a few chillis, the beresta and some coriander leaves. Mix well.
- Add half a cup of water and salt to taste. Be mindful, as the the cooked rice and marinated chicken already have salt. Mix well, cover and cook until the chicken is completely cooked. Remove from flame and set aside.
- Now, grease a thick bottomed pan with ghee all over. Arrange the chicken pieces, from the curry, on the edges and keep the potatoes in the centre. Cover with the curry.
- Now carefully layer the rice over the chicken and the curry. Use a spatula to do this so that the grains do not break. Drizzle the ghee and the saffron milk. Then arrange the slit chilis.
- Finally add the mint and coriander leaves. Cover and cook on a very low flame for 15-20 minutes (or until the rice is fully cooked)
- When done, turn the flame off. Keep covered for five minutes before opening the lid. Mix gently and scoop the rice out carefully with the chicken and potatoes. Enjoy your chicken biryani with potatoes, hot, with a chilled raita on the side!
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