Mughlai Chicken Biryani Recipe with step by step pictures. Delicate pieces of chicken cooked with basmati rice taste delicious with onion raita.
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Mughlai Chicken Biryani
This is a flavourful briyani recipe which is a typical dish from the Mughals. This is rich creamy and full of flavour. I served this with Mughlai Chicken.
How to Make Mughlai Chicken Biryani
- Soak the rice for 30 mins. Drain it and set aside. Heat a big pan with lots of water and bring that to boil. Add salt to it and add in the rice. Simmer this till the rice is ¾ cooked. Drain it and leave it to cool so that it gets into individual grains..
- Marinate the chicken with curd, coriander powder, salt and garam masala powder for 30 min.
- Heat butter and oil in a kadai add cardamom, bay leaf, cinnamon, cumin, mace in this and fry for 30 sec.
- Add in ginger garlic and chilli paste and cook for 30 sec.
- Add in cashew paste and cook till oil separates. marinated chicken and mix well.
- Throw in mint leaves and coriander leaves. Pour a splash of water and bring this to boil.
- Simmer this until the chicken is cooked. There should be some gravy left in this..
- Now take an oven proof dish or a microwave dish. Spoon half of the chicken gravy in the bottom.
- Add rice, fried onions, mint, coriander leaves on top..
- Spoon some more gravy on top of the rice. Finish it off with some more rice, fried onion, mint, coriander leaves, raisins and saffron liquid.
- Cover this with foil and place it in a 120°C(240°F) oven for 30-45 mins.If you are going to use microwave,Cover this with the microwave lid or plastic wrap and cook it on high for 10 mins.
- Take it out of the oven and mix gently. Serve hot with any curry.
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Mughlai Chicken Biryani Recipe
Mughlai Chicken Biryani Recipe with step by step pictures. Delicate pieces of chicken cooked with basmati rice taste delicious with onion raita.
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Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
- Basmati rice-1 cup
- Chicken-½ kg
- Curd-1 cup
- Fried onion-1 cup
- Cashew-10 grind into paste
- Mint leaves-1 cup
- Coriander leaves-1 cup
- Coriander powder / Malli podi-1 tblspn
- Garam masala powder-1 tsp
- Cumin seeds / Jeera-1 tsp
- Bay leaf / Brinji ilai-1
- Cinnamon / Pattai-1 small piece
- Cardamom / Yelakai-4
- Mace/Anasi moggu-1
- Ginger garlic and chilli paste-2 tblspn
- Raisans-1 tblspn
- Butter-1 tblspn
- Saffron / Yellow colour- a pinch mixed with some milk
- Oil-2 tblspn
Instructions
- Soak the rice for 30 mins..Drain it and set aside.Heat a big pan with lots of water and bring that to boil...Add salt to it and add in the rice...Simmer this till the rice is ¾ cooked..Drain it and leave it to cool so that it gets into individual grains..
- Marinate the chicken with curd, coriander powder,salt and garam masala powder for 30 min..
- Heat butter and oil in a kadai..Add in cardamom,bay leaf,cinnamon,cumin,mace in this and fry for 30 sec.
- Add in ginger garlic and chilli paste and cook for 30 sec.
- Add in cashew paste and cook till oil separates.Add in the marinated chicken and mix well.
- Throw in mint leaves and coriander leaves...Pour a splash of water and bring this to boil..
- Simmer this until the chicken is cooked.There should be some gravy left in this..
- Now take a oven proof dish or a microwave dish...Spoon half of the chicken gravy in the bottom..
- Add rice,fried onions,mint,coriander leaves on top..
- Spoon some more gravy on top of the rice..Finish it off with some more rice,fried onion,mint,coriander leaves,raisins and saffron liquid.
- Cover this with foil and place it in a 120°C(240°F) oven for 30-45 mins.If you are going to use microwave,Cover this with the microwave lid or plastic wrap and cook it on high for 10 mins..
- Take it out of the oven and mix gently...Serve hot with any curry..
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Mughlai Chicken Biryani Step by Step
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| Grab your ingredients |
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| Cook rice in salted water till three fourth done |
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| Marinate chicken in Curd, Coriander powder and Chilli powder |
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| Add cinnamon, mace, cardamom in hot oil |
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| Add Cumin seeds and Bay leaf |
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| ginger garlic and chilli paste. |
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| add in cashew paste |
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| add in chicken pieces |
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| coriander leaves & mint leaves |
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| splash of water |
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| cover and cook till oil separates and chicken is cooked |
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| until the chicken is done |
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| Add a spoonful of curry in the bottom. Add in some rice and some fried onions and herbs.. |
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| rest of the Curry and Rice. Top it with Fried onion, Raisins and Herbs..Pour some saffron milk. |
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| Put this in oven and cook on a low temperature for 30 mins. |
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| all done. |
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| yummy looking dish |
Chitra
biriyani looks very delicious...
Montse
Una receta muy original.Un beso
Laxmi
looks very colorful.. tasty biryani..
Reshmi Mahesh
Yummy flavorful biryani..
Torviewtoronto
delicious looking flavourful biryani looks wonderful
Gloria
Look yummm! gloria
Priya
Omg, Irresistible briyani,simply inviting and absolutely marvellous, wat a worthful dish to try..
Usha
Biryani is one of my favorites one pot meals! Love it!
Dzoli
I love chicken Bryani.I prepare it slightly different but always willing to try other variations as yours looks great:)
mia xara
Looks really delicious Aarthi!I like the variety of ingredients used in the recipe! XO
Suhaina
wow..this is so well explained and love all that wonderful clicks.Feels just like I was there when you made this biriyani. I can feel the aroma and oh boy I am feeling hungry here..looks so delish.
Suhaina
perfectly done dear..drooling here.
Daksha
Hi arathi! I'm veggie but ur biryani pulling me to make today. so i'm sure making veggie biryani such a mouthwatering:).
Lizzy
How beautiful in that lovely yellow dish! I'd love to try this~
design elements
looks delicios! happy weekend
Srivalli
Wonderful mughalai series..
nadia
hey aarthi...lovely recip.i tried it out its was amazing...really deicious..thanks for such a wonderful recipe
Kacey
I'm so glad you found my blog so I could discover yours! You have so many foods here that I would love to try and make myself! I'm very excited!
morri
I made this today! It's fabulous, as usual, but very different from your usual recipes, because it's not spicy at all. My husband loved the addition of those crispy fried onions. I think I added a little too much water to the chicken, because I got a lot of gravy, more than in the pictures, but it all evaporated during baking. So if anyone gets the same, don't worry. Because biryani takes so much work in itself, I didn't have time to prepare any curry, so I just served this with tomato and cucumber raita.
Anonymous
Really yummy. Loved the taste.
Priya
Tried it today. It came out very well. Such a lovely biryani