Fry Piece Chicken Biryani | Kodi Iguru Biryani
Recipe prepared by Smt Jhansi Lakshmi
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Article written by Lakshmi Aparna
Mrs. Jhansi cooked a delicious item for us. It's a different type of chicken biryani. This is a layered and pressure cooked. It can be cooked with regular rice or basmati rice. Here are the step by step instructions.
Soaking time: Minimum 1 hour
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Course: Main
Severs: 5
Main ingredient: Chicken
1 bowl measurement: 250 ml
Ingredients
Chicken with bones: 500 - 750 grams
Lemon (nimmakaya chakka): 1/2, ginger garlic paste (allam velulli): 3 tbsp, turmeric powder (pasupu): 1 tbsp, red chilly powder (kaaram): 2 tbsp, salt (uppu): 2-3 tbsp, curd (perugu): 2-3 tbsp
1 medium onion sliced and 8 green chillies sliced
Chopped onions and green chillies: 1 big onion and 3 green chillies
Rice: 2 bowls
Mint leaves: 1 bowl
Coriander leaves: 1 bowl
Garam masala: 2 tbsp
Cloves (lavangalu): 1 tbsp, cardamom (yalukkayi): 2, bay leaf (biryani aaku): 2, cinnamon (dalchina chakka): 2 inches, dried capers (marati mogga): 1
Cashews (jeedipappu): 10
Oil or ghee: 5-6 tbsp
Procedure
Step 1: Mix the chicken with lemon juice, curd, salt, turmeric powder, red chilly powder, 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
Marinate the mix for 1 hour
Step 2: Heat 3 tbsp oil, add and saute (fry) 1-inch cinnamon, 5 cloves, 1 bay leaf in high flame for few seconds
Step 3: Add chopped onions and green chilies, saute (fry) for 2 minutes in high flame
Step 4: Add few mint leaves, saute (fry) for 30 seconds in high flame
Step 4: Add and mix 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste, saute (fry) for 1 minute in high flame
Step 5: Add and mix marinated chicken, cook for 12 minutes in high flame by closing lid
Step 7: Open the lid and add 2 tbsp garam masala powder, mix it. Let it cook for another 10 minutes
Blend the cashews into powder
Step 8: Add few coriander leaves and cashews powder to it and mix well, cook until water gets evaporated in chicken
Once cooked, keep it aside
Step 9: Heat 3 tbsp oil or ghee in pressure cooker or pressure pan
Step 10: Saute (fry) 3 cardamoms, 5 cloves, 1-inch cinnamon, bay leaf and dried capers for 1 minute in high flame
Step 11: Add and mix sliced onions, few mint leaves. Saute (fry) for 1 minute in high flame
Step 12: Add and mix sliced green chillies, saute (fry) for 1 minute, then add 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
Step 13: Add and mix coriander leaves, fry (saute) for a minute in high flame
Step 14: Add and mix 2 bowls of cleaned rice to it, saute (fry) for 3-4 minutes in high flame. keep mixing once in a minute for 3 times
Step 15: Add 3 bowls water to it and add required salt (taste the water and adjust salt)
Step 16: Close the pressure cooker without weight, cook for 10 minutes in high flame (for semi-cooking)
Step 17: Open the cooker, take 1 bowl semi-cooked rice and keep it aside for next layer.
Now sprinkle 1/2 bowl water on semi cooked rice, add and spread fried chicken pieces uniformly
Step 18: Uniformly add coriander leaves.
Spread remaining rice and few coriander leaves on it.
Sprinkle 1/2 bowl water on it again
Step 19: Close the cooker with weight. Cook it up to 1 whistle. Turn off the flame
Once pressure is gone, open the cooker
Take biryani from side
Hot and tasty fried piece chicken biryani is ready to serve :)
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