By:

Zzz on Sun Mar 14, 2004

Chicken Biryani

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Occasion: Any		Total servings: 6
Cuisine: Pakistani		Calories:
Effort: Average		Pre-Prep time:
Best for: All		Preperation time: 1 hour
How to serve: Hot

Chicken Biryani recipe by Zzz.
Biryani is a combination of rice with meat, chicken, shrimp, vegetables or fish. It is a meal within itself serve with raita or salad.

3-4 onions
3-4 tomatoes cut in to cubes
2 tsp coriander powder
red chilli powder (according to your own taste)
1/2 tsp haldi Click to find more about haldi

Salt

to taste
2 tbsp gingergarlic paste
Chicken Click to find more about Chicken

(around 12 cut pieces)
Rice 2 cups (half cooked)
Yellow food colouring powder

Chop the onions and add oil to a cooking pot.
When the oil gets a little hot add the onion Click to find more about onion

and fry till it gets light brown.
Then add tomatoes and the ginger Click to find more about ginger

garlic

paste.
Add coriander powder, haldi Click to find more about haldi

, red chili powder and salt Click to find more about salt

and cook for a while. In the meantime drain out the water from the half cooked rice.
Now add the chicken Click to find more about chicken

in the mixture.
Add a little water if the mixture is dried.
Cook in medium flame till the chicken Click to find more about chicken

gets tender and flavoured.
Now take a another cooking pot and put a layer of the half cooked rice into it. then put a layer of the cooked chicken Click to find more about chicken

along with the sauce on top of the layer of rice.
Spread another layer of rice on top of the chicken Click to find more about chicken

and then place another layer of chicken Click to find more about chicken

on top of the rice.
Go on adding layers.
Take half a glass of water and add 1/4 tsp of yellow food colouring into the water.
Add this water in to the rice mixture and cover it.
Cook till rice is cooked. in the meantime slice an onion Click to find more about onion

and fry it in oil till light brown.
When the rice mixture is cooked add this oil on top of the rice and cook on very low flame for another 5 minutes.
Serve hot!!!

by sadaf
its easy , i appreciate all , who upload all these recipes , n made life easy :)
	Fri Apr 20, 2012

by Rabiah Khan
I love this recepi it makes chicken biryani seem alot easier to make....cant wait to try this out...many thanks for shring it with us! x
	Fri Dec 16, 2011

by Anonymous
Instead of the yellow food dye, wouldn't it be better to add tumeric? It doesn't take that much to add a very nice yellow color. I tell you, as a girl from the U.S. Pakistani and other middle eastern cuisine seems overwhelming at times, but this recipe sounds absolutely delicious.
	Sun Aug 14, 2011

by Anonymous
How do you half cook the rice? are you supposed to drain the water and then add the rice?? I'm not familiar with this type of cooking... please help!!!
	Fri Nov 19, 2010

by Anonymous
@ sabika. it say 3-4. meaning 3 or 4.. depending on size..
	Sat Nov 13, 2010

by Anonymous
Good and easy recpie
	Fri Aug 27, 2010

by sabica
r u ______ 34 onion and 34 tomatoes ufffffff kia ye piaz temater ke chatni hai...LOL
	Tue Jan 05, 2010

by Sonia
I love it this is easy way to cook
	Fri May 22, 2009

Link to this recipe: http://www.pakistanifoods.com/recipe/Chicken-Biryani

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