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Chicken Biriyani Kerala Style Recipe(Kozhi Biryani

Chicken Biriyani - Chicken Biriyani Kerala Style Recipe(Kozhi Biryani
Prep Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour
Cuisine Kerala
Servings 6 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1 kg Basmati rice
  • Water (For 1 cup of rice, add 1 1/2 cups of water)
  • 1 kg Chicken can also make it with mutton and fish
  • 2 tsp Garam masala powder
  • 100 gm Ginger paste 3 tsp
  • 100 gm Garlic paste 3 tsp
  • 1 cup Curd
  • 1 no Lemon
  • 1/4 kg Tomato sliced
  • 1/2 kg Onion sliced
  • 1/4 kg Small onions Kunjulli
  • 5 nos Green chillies
  • Coriander leaves A bunch
  • Mint leaves A bunch
  • 100 gm Ghee
  • 1/4 lt Oil
  • 1/4 tsp Nutmeg powder optional, Jathikka

For curd kachambar:

  • 1 cup Curd
  • 1/2 of Onion
  • 1/4 of Tomato
  • Coriander leaves
  • Salt As reqd

Instructions
 

  • Soak the rice in water for about 2 hrs.
  • Mix the cleaned chicken with 1 cup of curd and some salt. Keep it aside.
  • Heat some ghee and oil in a large vessel.
  • Saute small onions, onion and green chillies together.
  • When the colour of the onion turns brown, add the ginger-garlic paste and saute well.
  • Add the tomatoes, coriander leaves and mint leaves and saute well, until all the ingredients mix together and the oil starts to separate.
  • Add garam masala and nutmeg powder.
  • Add the chicken pieces mixed with curd.
  • Mix well and cover the pan with a lid.
  • Cook for about 10 mins.
  • Stir it once every 10 mins.
  • When the chicken is half cooked, add water and allow it to boil.
  • Drain off the water from the rice and add to the boiling water.
  • Allow it to boil and when the rice gets quarter cooked, add the lime juice and close with the lid.
  • Simmer the flame and keep it for approximately 45 min(until cooked).
  • Stir occasionally once every 15 mins.
  • :-Serve with curd kachambar
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