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Indian Cooking Recipe : How to Make Chicken Nasi Biryani
Ingredients for the Recipe
For Chicken
- 3 1/2 lb./ 1 1/2kg Chicken
- 1/8 tsp Ground turmeric
- 1/2 cup Sour cream
- 1 cup Crispy fried onions
- 2 tbsp Garam masala
- 1 3" cinnamon sticks
- 1 tbsp Brown mustard seeds
- 3 Star anise
- 3 Cloves
- 2 tbsp Cumin seeds
- 5 Small green chilies
- 5 cloves Garlic
- 2 tsp Paprika
- Salt to taste
For the Rice cooking
- 4 cups Rice, washed
- 3 Clove
- 3 Cinnamon sticks
- 6 Bay leaves
- 8 Cardamom pods
- 1 tsp Brown mustard seeds
- 3 Pandan leaves
- 10 cups Water
- 1 cup Milk
- 1 tsp Whole saffron
- 1 cup Frozen green peas
- 1/2 cup Dark raisins
- 2 tbsp Vegetable oil
- 100g Butter or Gee
- Some mint leaves
- Salt to taste
Recipe (How to Make):
For Chicken
- Mix the chicken pieces with sour cream, ground turmeric and salt & let it
sit for about 2 hours.
- Mix crispy onions with garam masala and set aside.
- Roast the cinnamon stick, brown mustard seeds, star anise, cloves, cumin seeds
in a dry skillet. Pound them together in a mixer. Set aside.
- Pound the garlic and green chilies together.
- Mix marinated chicken with crispy onions mix, ground spices, paprika, garlic
and green chilies. Set aside.
For the rice
- Soak saffron in the warm milk and set aside.
- Heat the oil in a skillet and add butter,add 1 cinnamon stick and 3 bay leaves
and fry until nice aroma comes out. Set aside.
- Boil the water in a large pan and stir in cloves, 2 cinnamon sticks, 3 bay leaves,
cardamoms & brown mustard seeds.
- Add rice, pandan leaves and cook until 2/3 done. (do not cover the pan while
rice is cooking)
- Drain the rice and discard the pandan leaves. Mix the rice with salt for taste.
- Place all the marinated chicken in a pan. Add a layer of rice on the chicken
and sprinkle with some colored milk, fragrant butter, green peas, dark raisins
& mint leaves.
- Repeat the layers with the same order and bake in 325 deg
F oven for 30 to 40 minutes until the chicken is done. (must have at least 2
layers).
- Ready to Serves.
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