Easy Chicken Biriyani(Kozhi Biryani) Making
Easy way to biriyani for lazy cooks like me
Ingredients
- 1/2 kg Chicken cut into chunks
- 3 cups Basmati rice
- 2 tbsp Oil
For making the paste:-
- 1 no Onion
- 1 no Garlic pod
- 1 small Ginger
- 4 nos Green chillies
- 2 nos Tomato
- Coriander leaves A handful
- Mint leaves A handful, Pudhina
- 1 1/2 tbsp Coriander powder
- 1 tsp Chilly powder
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp Pepper
- 1/2 tsp Cumin powder Jeerakam
- 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder Elakka
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder Karugapatta
Instructions
- Blend together all the ingredients for making the paste.
- Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pressure cooker.
- Fry the blended paste for 4 mins.
- Add chicken along with a cup of water and salt.
- Pressure cook for 6 mins with the weight on.
- Remove from the flame and allow it to cool.
- After opening the lid, add the cleaned rice.
- Check the level of salt and top with water(an inch above the rice level).
- Put it back on fire and pressure cook for another 6 mins.
- Remove from the flame and open the lid after 10 mins.
- :- If you really have time and patience, you can fry few fine slices of onion, cashews, raisins and garnish.
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