02 February 2025
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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