Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, pressure cooker chicken biryani. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Pressure Cooker Chicken Biryani is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Pressure Cooker Chicken Biryani is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
Easy and quick Pressure Cooker Chicken Biryani, delicious tender chunks of chicken cooked with rice & Indian spices in a Pressure King Pro (or Instant Pot) to create an authentic takeaway style curry for all to enjoy at home. This is served up in our house every week! Chicken Biryani is an ultimate one-pot chicken casserole.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pressure cooker chicken biryani using 44 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pressure Cooker Chicken Biryani:
- Make ready For 3 people :
- Get 3 large pieces of Chicken (150 to 200 grams each or whole leg piece preferably)
- Prepare 1/2 cup yogurt
- Make ready 3 big onions for browning
- Take 4 green chillies (quantity may vary as per the hotness of green chillies)
- Prepare 8-10 strands saffron
- Make ready 1/4 tsp dried rose petals powder
- Get 2 tbsp fried mint and coriander leaves mix
- Take 3 tbsp ghee
- Make ready For Rice:
- Prepare 3 cups basmati rice(soaked for 30 mins)
- Prepare 1/4 tsp black cumin
- Get 1 star anise
- Make ready 1 mace flower
- Make ready 4 green cardamom
- Take 4 cloves
- Get 5 black peppercorns
- Get 1 cinnamon stick
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Make ready 2 green chilli
- Make ready 1 tbsp mint and coriander leaves mix
- Make ready For Brine:
- Prepare 1 tbsp vinegar
- Prepare 4 tbsp salt
- Get For marination (cooked):
- Take 1/4 tsp black cumin
- Take 1 cinnamon stick
- Prepare 2 medium sized bay leaves
- Take 1 black cardamom
- Prepare 1/2 nutmeg
- Prepare 1 mace flower
- Take 4 green cardamom
- Prepare 4 cloves
- Make ready 6-10 black peppercorns
- Get 1 medium sized onion
- Take 2 1/2 tbsp ginger garlic paste (ginger garlic ratio 1:2)
- Prepare 1/2 chopped small sized tomato
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp salt
- Get 1/2 tbsp red chilli powder
- Take 2 tbsp chopped coriander and mint leaves mixed
- Get 2 tbsp biryani masala
- Take 1/4 cup yogurt
- Make ready 3-4 green chillies
- Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp oil
Put all the whole garam masala spices and sauté for a minute. Video Version of Pressure Cooker Chicken Biryani Recipe. Use your Pressure cooker to make this gorgeous, delectable one-pot Chicken Biryani for any festive occasion including Ramadan. It's quicker, full of flavour and the best meal to feast with your family.
Steps to make Pressure Cooker Chicken Biryani:
- Mix the ingredients for brine and pour apt amount of water just to submerge the chicken (do not add excess water else you will end up diluting the mix). Add the Chicken and leave it in refrigerator for 4 to 6 hrs.
- Cut down the 3 big onions into 1 mm thick slices and put down on a paper towel to soak in the excess moisture. Then heat oil for deep frying and fry the onions till they get brown in colour (do not cook the onions till they get dark brown else they loose their sweetness). Heat the milk and add saffron for later usage.
- For the marination mixture, heat the oil in a cooking pan. Put in whole spices for aroma. Once fried take them out and add onions and ginger garlic paste. Then add tomato, yogurt and other powdered spices. Cook for 5 minutes. Add green chillies and cool down the cooked mixture. Take out the chicken from brine solution, pat dry the chicken using paper or cloth towel and then use the cooled mixture as the second round marination. Leave the mix in refrigerator for around 6 hrs or even overnight.
- Grind yogurt, 1/4 cup brown onions, green chillies into a smooth paste and keep it aside.
- For making the perfect rice, boil double the amount of water as compared the quantity of rice. Add in whole spice before boiling. Once the water starts boiling, add in the soaked rice. - Once the rice is half cooked, remove the rice immediately out of water.
- Take the chicken out from marination. Put some ghee in pressure cooker before layering. Place the marinated chicken in pressure cooker in a way that it covers almost the whole base. Then apply a layer of the yogurt brown onion mix on it.
- After that put the rice layer on the chicken (The rice should not be left outside for long between straining and layering so as to get a juicy moist biryani). Then layer brown onions, fried coriander and mint mix, dried rose petals and saffron milk on the rice. Cover them with a thin layer of rice and apply the pressure cooker lid. Ensure there is at least 3 cm gap between the lid and top layer of rice.
- Put down a thick flat utensil to heat up on the smaller side of gas stove. Once heated up, place the pressure cooker on it and lower down the stove to it's minimum possible flame. - Remove the whistle of pressure cooker and allow it on the same position for 1.5 hours. Please do not be impatient and disturb the set up when you smell the aroma before 1.5 hours.
- Once done switch off the gas stove, remove the flat utensil from below the pressure cooker and allow the pressure cooker to sit on the stove to cool down for 15 minutes. Take the lid out and serve the biryani with salan or raita as per preference.
- Do comment your reviews after trying out the recipe.
Biryani, a mix of rice and meat, spices galore cooked in layers of meat and rice. Traditional chicken biryani is made by layering marinated chicken and then layered with parboiled rice, herbs,saffron milk & then ghee. The recipe shared here in this post details a short cut method to make a simple one pot delicious chicken biryani in a pressure cooker or a pot. Learn how to cook Instant Pot Chicken Biryani (Pressure Cooker Chicken Biryani)! This popular Indian Chicken and Rice is so tasty, flavorful & comforting to eat.
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