How to Make Perfect Malabari Chicken Biriyani

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Malabari Chicken Biriyani is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Malabari Chicken Biriyani is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook malabari chicken biriyani using 35 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Malabari Chicken Biriyani:

1. Make ready For chicken curry
2. Make ready 2 lbs boneless and skinless chicken thighs cut into bite size pieces
3. Get 1 large onion chopped fine
4. Take 1.5 tablespoons ginger garlic paste
5. Get 3 green chillies chopped
6. Prepare 3/4 cup coriander leaves,chopped
7. Make ready 1/2 cup mint leaves,chopped
8. Make ready 1.5 tablespoon canola oil/ ghee
9. Prepare 2 large tomatoes finely chopped
10. Get 1 tablespoon Garam Masala
11. Prepare 2 teaspoons kashmiri chilli powder
12. Take 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
13. Take to taste salt
14. Take 2 tablespoons thick yoghurt
15. Prepare 1/2 cup coconut milk
16. Prepare for Biriyani Rice
17. Prepare 4 cups basmati rice
18. Take 1 tablespoon ghee
19. Make ready 8 cardamom pods
20. Get 8 cloves
21. Make ready 2 inches cinnamon stick
22. Get 2 bay leaves
23. Take 10 peppercorns
24. Make ready 1 star anise
25. Take to taste Salt
26. Get For Layering
27. Prepare 1/2 cup chopped coriander leaves
28. Prepare 1/2 cup chopped mint leaves
29. Get 1/4 cup cashews (roasted in ghee)
30. Get 1/2 juice of lemon
31. Prepare 1 tablespoon Kewra water (essence of screw pine)
32. Take 1/2 cup fried onions
33. Take 5 boiled eggs (cut in half)
34. Get Few stands of saffron soaked in milk
35. Get as required dough made of all-purpose flour / whole wheat flour to seal the pot

Instructions to make Malabari Chicken Biriyani:

1. To start with the chicken curry, sauce onion in a frying pan till it turns light brown. Add green chillies, ginger-garlic paste and sauce till it blends well and is aromatic.
2. Now add the mint and coriander leaves and mix well. Add tomatoes to this mixture and cook coved on low flame till it's all well incorporated. Add all the dry spices and mix well. Sautè for a few minutes for the spices to be well absorbed.
3. Add yoghurt to this mixture and mix well. Now add the chicken pieces and sauce till all pieces are well coated in this mixture. Cooked covered on low flame till the chicken pieces are cooked. Finish the curry by adding coconut milk and mixing well.
4. To prepare the rice, soak rice in cold water for 30 minutes and drain well. Pour ghee in a deep pan and sauce all the whole spices till aromatic. Add rice, salt and sautè well for a few minutes. This ensures that the rice doesn't turn out sticky. Add 4 cups of cold water. We want the rice to be almost cooked, not fully cooked. Cook the rice covered on low flame till it's fluffy and almost done.Pick out all the whole spices from the rice.
5. Choose a wide container with a secure lid to layer the biriyani. Start layering the biriyani by putting a thin layer of rice, topped with an even layer of chicken curry. Add another layer of rice, topped with fried onions, mint, coriander, cashews. Repeat the process till the top layer. Garnish the top most layer of rice with mint, coriander, cashews, kewra, lemon juice. pour saffron milk on 1/2 cup of rice and to the top layer. Arrange the egg half on top, yolk side down.
6. Seal the mouth of the lid with dough to make it air tight. Put in a preheated oven (350 degrees farheight)

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