Cuisine: North Indian
Category: Dinner
Prep: 45 min
Cook: 60 min
Serves: 6
Difficulty: Hard
🍗 Non-Vegetarian
Fragrant long-grain basmati layered with spiced chicken — the definitive celebration rice dish.
Ingredients
- 1 kg chicken, bone-in pieces
- 3 cups basmati rice, soaked
- 3 onions, thinly sliced and fried crispy
- 1 cup yogurt
- 2 tomatoes
- 2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
- 2 tsp biryani masala
- Whole spices: bay leaf, cardamom, cloves, star anise, mace
- 1/2 cup mint leaves
- Saffron soaked in warm milk
- 4 tbsp ghee
- Salt
Method
- Marinate chicken in yogurt, ginger-garlic paste, biryani masala and salt for 2 hours.
- Cook marinated chicken in heavy pot with fried onions and tomatoes until 3/4 done.
- Par-boil rice with whole spices until 70% cooked. Drain.
- Layer rice over chicken in pot.
- Top with fried onions, mint, saffron milk and ghee.
- Seal pot with dough or foil. Cook on high 5 min, then very low for 30 minutes (dum).
- Gently mix before serving with raita.