chicken briyani kerala style, easy chicken briyani recipe

Chicken Biriyani

Chicken Biryani Recipe

Ingredients: (Serves 4-5)

Chicken – 500g cut into medium size pieces
Onion – 2
Tomato – 1
Ginger garlic paste – 3 tsp
Green Chilli – 4-5
Coriander leaves – handful
Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
Coriander powder – 3 tsp
Biryani Masala/Garam masala – 1 tsp
Water – ½ cup
Oil
Salt

To Marinate: (For Chicken)

Chilli powder – ½ tsp
Kashmiri chilli powder – 1 tsp
Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
Ginger garlic paste – 2 tsp
Yogurt – 2 Tbsp
Salt

For Rice:

Basmati Rice – 2 Cup
Ghee – 2 Tbsp
Water – 3 ¾ Cup
Cloves – 2 nos
Cardamom pods – 3 nos
Cinnamon stick – 1 inch piece
Bay leaves – 1 no
Briyani Masala – 1 tsp (optional)
Salt

For Garnishing:

Cashew – 3 Tbsp
Raisins – 2 Tbsp
Onion – 1
Coriander leaves
Ghee – 3 Tbsp

(Note: 1 Cup = 250 ml
I used Shaan Biryani Masala. If you prefer less amount of gravy for the chicken reduce the amount of onion for chicken masala preparation
I didn’t use coriander leaves as my family doesn’t like the taste of it.)
Method: (With Step-by-Step Pictures)

Mix all the ingredients to marinate. Add cleaned chicken into it and keep it in the fridge for half an hour.

Heat oil in a nonstick pan and roast the chicken until its light brown in color. Remove it from the pan

To the same pan add sliced onion and sauté till onion turns brown in color (It takes approx 15 mins for this step)

Add sliced tomato and cook till it becomes soft.

Add ginger garlic paste, green chilli and saute for 2-3 mins. Add coriander leaves and sauté for a min.

Add all the spice powder, salt and sauté it for 2-3 mins

Add fried chicken pieces and mix well so that chicken pieces will get coated well with the masala.

Add water and cook with the pan covered till chicken is cooked well and is almost 90% dry. (Check whether chicken is cooked well. If not add additional water and cover and cook till its done)

For the rice part, wash rice and drain it well
Heat ghee in a cooker and add all the spices and sauté for a min.

Add rice and sauté it for a min.

Add water, salt and mix well. Pressure cook the same and wait for 1 whistle and immediately remove the cooker from stove.

Once the whistle goes completely immediately remove the cooker lid and leave it open.

Preheat the oven to 180 Deg. Take a baking dish and apply some oil. Put one layer of rice in it.

On the top put a layer of chicken with masala. Repeat the same till rice and chicken is finished. The top layer should be rice.

Cover it with an aluminium foil and bake in a preheated oven for 10-15 mins.

Garnish the baked Biriyani with fried cashew, raisins, onion and coriander leaves.

Also check out Ghee Rice and Vegetable Fried Rice