Ambur Style Chicken Briyani
Hurrah!!! This is our blog's 200th post..
And one more special thing about this Briyani.. My husband prepared this Briyani and this is the first time he cooks for me.. One day he found this recipe, in my Recipe Note. He desperately wanted to prepare this Briyani all by his own and he went on with the recipe. Me and my kid were waiting eagerly for the Briyani...
Wow!!! It was very yummy... The Briyani was very perfect. Just had the pleasure of eating Briyani in an authentic Briyani Restaurant. Thank you Husband!! You owe 200th post of the Blog!!!
Here is that authentic Briyani recipe..
Ingredients: (Recipe For 2)
Seeraga Samba Arisi - 1 cup (Briyani Rice)
Chicken - 1/2 kg
Big Onion - 2
Tomato - 2
Ginger-Garlic Paste - 1 tbsp
Red Chilli Paste - 2 tbsp
Curd - 1/4 cup
Cinnamon Stick - 1
Cloves - 2
Green Cardamom - 2
Coriander Leaves - 2 handsful
Mint Leaves - 2 handsful
Salt - As required
Ghee+Oil - As required
Procedure:
- Boil 3 cups of water in a sauce pan. When the water boils, add washed Briyani rice. When the water boils again, reduce the flame and switch it off in another 8 minutes. By this way, rice would have cooked only 3/4 th.. When you take out the rice it should be mashable with hands but it should be little chewy when you eat.. Drain the excess water and let the rice cool..
- Chop Big onion lengthwise. Chop finely tomatoes, coriander and mint leaves.
- Heat Ghee + oil in a pan. Add little curd to it. Add also cinnamon stick, cloves and green cardamom to it.
- After a second, add half of chopped onions. After the onions are translucent, add Ginger-Garlic paste.
- Saute till raw flavor goes off. Add washed chicken and coriander leaves to the pan. Cover with a lid and cook well. Keep on stirring in between.
- When the chicken is half cooked, add remaining onions and tomatoes.
- Cover with a lid and cook well.
- After 5 minutes, add salt, Red Chilli Paste and remaining curd.
- Cover with a lid and cook well, till the chicken is cooked fully. No need to add water. Chicken will cook in its own water.
- Take a baking pan. Grease it. Place half of the rice. Then Gravy.. and throw coriander, some coriander and mint leaves.
- And then add rest of the rice, gravy and again Coriander, mint leaves.
- Cover the pan. I used baking sheet for it.
- Pre heat the oven to 180 degree Celsius. Bake it for 15 minutes. Let briyani sit in the switched off oven for 10 more minutes.
- Enjoy your Briyani. Adjust the spice according to your taste. Please follow the same procedure. Or else, you will end up in usual Briyani. Because the taste lies within the procedure which we follow.
- If you don't have oven, simply heat a dosai pan. Place rice,gravy,coriander leaves in layers in a Pan and place it over the dosai pan.. By this, Dum briyani can be done on stove top.
