Chicken Tikka Biryani

Ingredients:

  • Chicken fillets – 1 kg
  • 4 tbsp Tikka Masala by National Foods (easily available at Pakistani/Indian grocery stores )
  • 1 cup yogurt
  • 1 tbsp ginger & garlic paste
  • 2 tsp red chili powder
  • 3 lemons
  • 1 kg rice
  • salt (to add in rice when boiling)
  • 3-4 onions
  • I cup oil
  • a handful of coriander
  • a handful of mint leaves
  • 4-5 green chilies
  • 6-7 black peppercorns
  • 3-4 green cardamom

Preparation:

  • Take the chicken fillets and add tikka masala, yogurt, ginger & garlic paste, red chili powder and lemon juice.
  •  Marinate the chicken for approximately 30 minutes.
  •  Boil the chicken when it is marinated well.
  •  Dice the onions (finely) and fry them in oil. (the oil doesn’t have to be boiling hot like it is required for frying).
  •  Keep the onions separate when fried.
  •  Pour that oil (the one you fried onions in) on the chicken when it is boiled.
  •  Boil the rice (should be half boiled) in 1/2 tsp salt, cardamoms and black peppercorns.
  •  Oil the pan and make a layer of the half boiled rice.
  •  Pour the boneless chicken on it with few mint leaves, coriander, green chilies and lemon juice.
  •  Add the remaining rice as a layer on top with the remaining mint leaves, coriander and chilies.
  •  Take 1/2 tsp of ‘zarday ka rang’ (yellowish orange food color) and mix it in 1/2 cup milk.
  •  Pour it over on top of the rice and let it cook on low flame till the steam is out.
  •  Serve hot.
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