Pakistani Special Chicken Biryani

Prep time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour

Ingredients:

• Chicken- Half or 1 Kg
• Rice – 1Kg
• Garam Masala – 1 teaspoon
• Garlic and Ginger Paste- 2 Tablespoons
• Salt- to taste
• Chopped Onions- 3
• Chopped Tomatoes- 6
• Yogurt- 1 cup
• White cumin- 1 teaspoon
• Turmeric- 1 teaspoon
• Red chilli pepper- two tablespoons
• Crushed Coriander – 1 table spoon
• Green chillies- 6
• Mint – cut into small pieces- half a cup
• Food color- yellow- a pinch
• Milk- one cup
• Cooking oil- one cup
• Kewra Essence- Few drops

Preparation:

• Add cooking oil to a cooking pot and heat it for five minutes and then add Garam Masla (a mixture of spices) into it and fry it for 2 minutes, and add chopped onions, ginger garlic paste and cumin and cook for two to three minutes.

• Add chopped tomatoes and cook it until tomatoes are converted into a paste form.

• Add chicken, salt, red chilli pepper, crushed coriander, garam masala, green chilli peppers, green coriander/parsley, mint and yogurt.

• Cook for 10-15 minutes until the chicken is fully cooked.

• Keep the boiled rice separately at this stage.

• Take a separate cooking pot and add a layer of oil in the end. Then spread the chicken in one layer at the bottom, and spread a layer of rice on top, add two-three layers of chicken and rice like this and add food color, kewra essence and milk on top of the rice and keep the rice on steam for 15-20 minutes. For this step cover the cooking pot with a cloth and then put the lid on the pot and let the pot stay on slow heat for 15-20 minutes.

What if you want Biryani without Chicken?

Kfood chicken biryani specializes in providing delicious biryani recipes that you will enjoy, but if you are someone who does not like chicken and want to go with other options then you can cook mutton or beef biryani, or make Mumbai biryani by adding potatoes to the biryani. If you are cooking with mutton or beef then all you need to do is be careful that at the step when you are supposed to add chicken and cook for 15-20 minutes, you cook until mutton or beef are fully cooked. As it takes longer for mutton or beef to be cooked properly.

How to add more flavor?

Pakistani foods are rich in flavor and if you want to add more flavor to your chicken biryani then there are other spices that you can add for added flavor to the biryani. For example, adding dried plums to biryani will add more flavor it.

Chicken Biryani is one of the most popular dishes in India and Pakistan and is made with special spices, the key to adding great flavor to Biryani is to add home-made spices. As the key to great food specifically in Pakistan and India is to use the home made crushed chilies and masalas (spices) that are home-made or purchase them from the place or brand that offers home-made spices.

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