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Pressure cooker chicken biryani

How to Pressure Cook Chicken Biryani | Quick Chicken Biryani

Course Iftar recipes, Lunch, Main Course, Party Food
Cuisine Indian

Equipment

  • Pressure cooker

Ingredients
  

  • cups Basmati rice 1 cup equals to 250ml
  • 6 to 8 pieces Chicken 600 to 800 kg
  • 3 Onion sliced thinly
  • 2 Tomato chopped
  • ¼ cup Curd/yogurt
  • 3 to 4 inch Ginger
  • 2 Garlic solo garlic/single bulb of garlic
  • 1 Green chilly
  • ½ cup Mint handful
  • ½ cup Coriander /cilantro leaves handful
  • Chilli powder
  • Oil

Spices

  • 2 pieces Cinnamon
  • 8 to 10 pieces Cloves
  • 5 pieces Cardamom
  • 2 pieces Bay leaf

Instructions
 

  • Heat the pressure cooker.
  • Add oil in the pressure cooker.
  • Add the whole spices (cinnamon,cardamom,cloves, bayleaf) and fry.
  • Add sliced onion when the spices are fried enough.
  • Add green chilli and fry.
  • Add ginger garlic paste and fry well.
  • Add the chopped tomato and cook.
  • Add chopped coriander and mint leaves.
  • Cook everything until everything blends together.
  • It is time to add chilli powder.
  • Now add the yogurt/curd and mix well.
  • Add the washed and cleaned chicken and mix well.
  • Cook the chicken in yogurt masala until the chicken is throughly coated with masala.
  • Add the washed basmati rice.
  • Mix the rice and the masala without breaking the rice.
  • Add the water.
  • Add required salt and mix gently not to break the rice.
  • Cover with the lid and cook for 2 whistles.
  • Open the lid when the pressure completely gone.
  • Use a fork or spoon to fluff the rice.
  • Serve with brinjal chops, chicken curry, onion raita.

Notes

  • This recipe requires more ginger than garlic.
  • Fry the onion well to make the biryani tastier.
  • Add more green chillies to spice up the biryani.
  • Use Kashmiri chilli powder along with regular chilli powder to attain a red/orange colour biryani.
  • Wash and soak the basmati rice for 10 to 30 mins for a fluffy biryani.
  • You can roast the rice to attain the separate grains texture of the biryani.
  • Do not mix the soaked rice forcibly as that will break the rice.
  • Do not mix the cooked biryani that will result in a mushy biryani. On the other hand, fluff the rice with a spoon or fork.
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