Summary

I got to know about the presence of Biryani on earth while I was in Bengal (India) for my studies. I tasted the heavenly biryani of Arsalan , Taaz and some other places and realized my obsession for Biryani. Now that I am no more in India , I decided to learn Indian dishes (coz why not..). After 5 failed attempts (including completely burnt biryani), I have started to master the skills of biryani. Hereby I will share some details of how to make a beautiful and delicious biryani

Details

Cost = Around $10
Time = 2 Hours

Ingredients (numbered as per above picture):-

1. Cumin seeds (2 spoons)
2. Garam Masala (2 spoons)
3. Turmeric Powder (1 spoon)
4. Meat Masala (MDH ...MDH)
5. Coriander powder (2 spoons)
6. Red Chilli Powder
7. Bay leaves {bae left me :( }
8. Black Pepper (10 units)
9. Cardamom Seeds (10 units)
10. Cloves seeds (10 units)
11. Cinnamon (1 unit , not shown as i forgot to click it)

First thing it to marinate the meat overnight to let the flavors penetrate to the deepest tissue of chicken. For this add 1 lemon, 2 cups of yogurt, 1 spoon of turmiric, black pepper, salt and red chilli to sliced chicken. It will look like this next day.

Next step is to take a hot pan and putting in all the 11 Ingredients in it. Roast these for half a minute and you will smell the flavors blowing out. Remove them out and put in 4 spoons of oil inside the pan.

Now add 5 sliced onions, 2 cloves of sliced garlics and 1 small ginger to hot oil and let them cook for a while.Add back the roasted ingredients and keep cooking for 10 minutes. Make sure nothing burns out. The mixture will look like this

Some people disagree with me but I add 1 spoon of Tomato Sauce and 1 spoon of Honey to this mixture. Add the marinated chicken and let it cook for good half hour. The magic will happen and chicken will start turning brown like east asians ;)

I add boiled potato & eggs after half hour. They dont need the heat so I add them later

Keep stirring it so that nothing sticks to the bottom. Finally it will look like this

Final step is to add layers of rice and this chicken successively. When adding the rice, you can put some pieces of butter on it to make it more rice.

Finally serve it with this yogurt

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