Hyderabadi chicken biryani

Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani
Main Dish
Easy
40 min

Ingredients

6

For Chicken Marination:

For Rice:

Preparation

Preparation10 min
Cook time30 min
  • Take frying pan heat oil and deep-fry the Onions and marinate the chicken with fried onions, salt, red chilli powder, green chilli paste, turmeric powder, ginger & garlic paste, shahi jeera, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and bay leaves. Marinate for about 2 to 3 hours or if you have time marinate overnight in the refrigerator.
  • One hour before cooking Take marinated chicken add curd, juice of one lemon, Finely chopped mint & coriander leaves keep aside.
  • Take a vessel and apply oil all over vessel, then add 5 tbsp oil and marinated chicken keep a side.
  • Clean and wash rice. Soak rice in water for 30 minutes.
  • Soak saffron in warm milk and keep aside.
  • Boil the water along with cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaves, shahi jeera, cloves and salt then add soaked rice. Cook rice till 50% done.
  • Strain the rice and spread the cooked rice on top of the marinated chicken. Sprinkle a little garam masala powder, half lemon juice, saffron milk, mint leaves and leave the remaining oil over the rice and cover it with lid.
    Cook on high flame for the first 10 minutes then put the gas on low flame slip in a tava beneath the vessel and cook on low flame for 20 minutes.

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anonymous

Healthy and tasty.

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anonymous

Really nice biriyani receipe. keep it up

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Pajan

Made my day

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anonymous

Its really a delicious biryani, i never had before. very simple in making n very great taste

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anonymous

Very good

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anonymous

Delicious

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