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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Moist Chicken Biryani- made in Rice Cooker

This is an easy method (10 easy steps) for making chicken biryani in a rice cooker. Prepare and add: (chicken) masala + chicken + water + rice, put everything together in a rice cooker and cook. Enjoy a moist, flavorful, colorful and yummy biryani.

moist chicken biryani

                                                                  Yummy Biryani!

A great tip from my sister in law for moist biryani :) - Add some of the chicken pieces with skin or add some chicken skin in the masala and remove those skin before serving, it really makes a (great!) difference. 
To cook 1 cup of rice, we have to add 1 and a 1/2 cups of water. 1 cup of uncooked rice gives 2 cups of cooked rice.  
home made biryani
Ready for a party :)
Ingredients:
2 cups/ 400 gms basmathi rice
1 lb - 1/2 kg       chicken (legs and breasts)
1 med                 onion (thinly sliced)
1                        tomato (finely chopped)
6                        green chilli (finely chopped)
1 handful            mint leaves (finely chopped)
1 handful            cilantro leaves (finely chopped)
few                     curry leaves - optional
4 tsp                   chilli powder
2 tsp                  *biryani masala powder / curry pwd     
1"                       ginger    (ground)
2-4 cloves           garlic    (ground)
1 tbs                   yogurt/ curd
1 pinch               red/ orange food color 
2 tsp                   lemon juice 
* In USA, almost all the indian grocers carry biryani masala powder and the dry spices given in this recipe. Biryani masala powder can be substituted with curry powder or garam masala pwdr. 
cooker chicken biryani
Chicken Biryani! 
for seasoning:
2 tbs                   oil
2 tsp                   ghee (clarified butter)
2                        cardamoms, cloves
1                        star anise, bay leaf
1"                      cinnamon stick
salt                    to taste
tasty chicken biryani
Biryani made in a rice cooker
Method:
1. Heat the ghee and oil in a pan. Add the dry spices given under -seasoning.
2. Add chopped onion and green chilli and fry (med/high) till it becomes soft and golden brown, add chopped coriander/ cilantro, curry leaves and mint leaves, stir well until it gets soft and blends well with onion.
3. Reduce heat and add  ginger & garlic paste, stir it well,
now add chilli powder and biryani powder stir  for sometime.
Add tomato and cook, till it gets incorporated with masala (the onion masala should look like a paste).
4. Add chicken and mix nicely in the onion masala, sprinkle salt and add yogurt, mix it well and cover the pan and cook till the chicken is half done. Remove the pan from stove.
how much water to add for biryani
5. The chicken masala should be dry. If it has any extra liquid remove and reserve it for cooking rice.
easy chicken biryani
6. Wash the rice and drain it, add it to the dry chicken masala and mix it thoroughly. Measure and add 3 cups of water (including any reserved liquid from the chicken masala) to the rice mixture.
7. Put the chicken masala- rice and water into the rice cooker and set it in the regular rice cooking setting.
colorful chicken biryani
8. This step is optional: When the rice is half cooked, sprinkle  food color and mix it with  fork (it should cover only 2-4 tsps of rice- see the above pic). This gives the biryani a colorful look.
9. Add lemon juice, check for salt and stir it gently one more time and close the lid.
flavorful chicken biryani
10. When it's done, open the cooker and stir it gently with a fork, making sure not to break the rice. Remove the biryani from the cooker and serve it with raitha, boiled egg, and eggplant fry :) 


Ready to eat!
         Feel free to comment, i love your feedback. Enjoy ur cooking! Have a blessed day.  




                                             
                                                            



                                                                   


























18 comments:

Himansu said...

Looks easy and tasty!

Anonymous said...

I'm definitely going to try this.

Anonymous said...

very simple procedure... thanks

jay said...

Hi, I was searching for a easy way of making biriyani. This is the best I found so far.Went through dozens of recepies but all exept this were very fancy. In all other recepies you may need a pressure cooker, need to blend mint and coriander in a food processer, may need to put alternate layers of rice and chicken biriyani mixture or boil the rice to a very specific level before hand and so on.
I made this and it came real. Only thing I did different is instesd of 3 cups of water just added 21/2 cups.
Thanks again for posting this way of cooking perfect biriyani just with a rice cooker.

jay said...

Hi, I was searching for a easy way of making biriyani. This is the best I found so far.Went through dozens of recepies but all exept this were very fancy. In all other recepies you may need a pressure cooker, need to blend mint and coriander in a food processer, may need to put alternate layers of rice and chicken biriyani mixture or boil the rice to a very specific level before hand and so on.
I made this and it came real. Only thing I did different is instesd of 3 cups of water just added 21/2 cups.
Thanks again for posting this way of cooking perfect biriyani just with a rice cooker.

Anonymous said...

What size is the rice cooker you have used

pinaki said...

let me try now I am very hungry :)

Neelambaram said...

Thanks everyone for your lovely comments <3
Thanks for taking your time to write the feedback Jay :)
It's a 5 cup cooker :)

praveena said...

very good recipe - first time I've made biryani and it turned out beautiful!

I used boneless chicken thighs marinated for a few hours in yoghurt blackpepper turmeric paprika. Then I doubled the amount of ingredients for the seasoning, used 3 tbspn of greek youghurt,and sadly had to leave out the mint/cilantro because i didnt have any!

I also did not have biryani powder and didnt feel like going out to buy so i replaced it with - 1 tspn coriander, 1/2 tspn cumin, 1 tspn paprika, 1 tspn sambar curry powder.

Thank you for the recipe. :)

Anonymous said...

Hi, I am a Filipina, who tried this chicken BIRYANI in rice cooker
And it's so easy and so delicious and eat with tomatoe salad

Thank u for the shared tips of making chicken biryani

Perfect for dinner

Anonymous said...

Hi, I am a filipina who loves chicken or fish BIRYANI
I tried ur simple recipe's for BIRYANI, and I did it! So yummy,great foods !

Thank u for ur sharing ,perfect for picnic

Golden Flower said...

Hi there
Do you have to soak the basmatic rice? If so, for how long?

Neelambaram said...

Thanks for the feedback Praveena!!! im glad your 1st time biryani came out good. Thats an interesting biryani powder, ill try it next time.

Biryani is popular in Phillipines!!! :) Glad you enjoyed your picnic with biryani.


Hi Goldflower, you don't have to soak rice for this method using rice cooker :)

Unknown said...

Hi, just visited your page for the first time. really keen to try this recipe but I have one question. What do you mean by "mix it well and cover the pan and cook till the chicken is half done."?

How do I know when the chicken is 'half done'? Is there a certain duration the chicken should stay in the covered pan? Or do I test for certain colour on the chicken skin or texture to determine if it is half-cooked?

Appreciate your input. Thanks!

Unknown said...

Hi, just visited your page for the first time. really keen to try this recipe but I have one question. What do you mean by "mix it well and cover the pan and cook till the chicken is half done."?

How do I know when the chicken is 'half done'? Is there a certain duration the chicken should stay in the covered pan? Or do I test for certain colour on the chicken skin or texture to determine if it is half-cooked?

Appreciate your input. Thanks!

Biswabhusan said...

I really like your Blog. Thanks to Admin for Sharing such useful information. Addition to this here I am Contributing one more Similar Stories Cooking tips for Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani Recipe.

Henry Price said...

Yummy biryani! I am always happy eating this traditional Indian food as it reminds me of my grandma so much. She loves to cook this. But when she's gone, nobody knows how to prepare this. My wife discovered Kulcha King, where indian foods has authentic taste like my grandma's cooking. They have biryani, kulcha, kebab which are very traditional and authentic in taste.

Neelambaram said...

It should be firm, the raw pink color would change to white color, if you insert a fork/toothpick you can see pink color