Chicken Biriyani

This is a really delicious biriyani and one of my favorite recipes.

Servings: 6

Ingredients

Marination
1 Kilogram
Chicken
1 Cup
Curd
1 Teaspoon
Cumin Powder
4 Teaspoons
Coriander Powder
1 Teaspoon
Chilly Powder
1 1⁄2 Teaspoons
Aniseed Powder
45 Grams
Green Chilly
2 Tablespoons
Garlic (crushed)
2 Tablespoons
Ginger (crushed)
1 Teaspoon
Turmeric Powder
2 Teaspoons
Lemon juice
—
Coriander Leaves
—
Mint Leaves
—
Curry Leaves
—
Salt
For rice
4 Cups
Basmati Rice
7
cloves
5
cardamom seeds
1 Tablespoon
Ani Seed (Perinjeerakam)
5
Cinnamon
3
Star Anise (Thakolam)
3
Bay Leaves
Masala
4 Tablespoons
Ghee
5
Onion
3
Tomato
3 Teaspoons
Garam Masala
Garnishing
2 Tablespoons
Cashew nuts
1 Tablespoon
Raisins

Preparation steps

  • 1
    Mix together ingredients listed under marination. Marinate the chicken well. Keep it aside for 2 - 3 hours.
  • 2
    Soak rice in water for 1hr.
  • 3
    Heat oil in a pan.
  • 4
    Add sliced onions, salt and saute, till they turn brown and then add garam masala.
  • 5
    Add sliced tomatoes and saute well.
  • 6
    Add marinated chicken and then add 1 cup water to it.
  • 7
    Cover the pan and cook until chicken is done.
  • 8
    Drain the water from the rice.
  • 9
    Heat ghee in the pan/ cooker.
  • 10
    Add cinnamon, bay leaf, cardamom seeds, curry leaves, cloves and aniseeds.
  • 11
    Once it is sauted well, add rice. Saute it till rice is crispy.
  • 12
    Add 4 1/2 cup water to it with enough salt. Cover and cook until rice is done. It would approximately take 10 - 15 minutes.
  • 13
    ** Never miss this step. Layer a pan / cooker with alternating layers of rice and the chicken masala. Add coriander leaves and 1 tsp ghee at every layer.
  • 14
    Heat the layered biriyani for about 20 minutes. It is a good option to microwave it as well. Rice and biriyani masala gets blended well with this. You need not add water since biriyani masala has good gravy content.
  • 15
    Thinly slice 1 onion and fry it in ghee. Sprinkle salt and bit sugar.
  • 16
    Garnish the top of biriyani with the above fried onions and roasted cashews and raisins.
  • 17
    Serve it with raitha, pickle and papad

Comments

Cherian Thomas

Even though this is very very very good I like the beef biriyani better :-)

Anirudh Surendranath

This is the Kerala style preparation, is it not?
@Cherian : you're in so much trouble :P

Cherian Thomas

She cooks the beef biriyani too :-)

Jane Jojo

yeah, this is Kerala style preparation..

Anirudh Surendranath

@Jane : the wonderful thing about the Biriyani is the number of ways in which it can be prepared - Awadhi style, Hyderabadi style, Malabar style.. so on :)
@Cherian : :P

Neetu Shibu

Jane! I tried this recipe.... It turned out awesome!!

Neetu Shibu

The oly variation I made was I used butter to sauté onions instead of oil...

Jane Jojo

Great to hear that, Neetu! Upload your biriyani snap :)

Midhun V Sankar

nice

Mohana Lakshmi

very nice recipe, i know how to make france, mutton, biryani also.

Mohana Lakshmi

very soon i upload my recipes also, iam very much eager about that

Heba El Barassi

omg so yummy iv just had my dinner nd i got hungry so excited to try that

Priya Jolly

Thankyou Jane Jojo ! I tried this recipe with a slight variation and its so delicious !!!!

Jane Jojo

Nice to hear that it came out well for you :)

Dipin

Edited

Thank you for the recipe Jane!It was my first attempt at chicken biriyani with your recipe and it turned out to be a success!

Jane Jojo

Thanks for trying it out, Dipin :) Great that it came out well for you!