Chicken tandoori biryani recipe

 


Ingredients for chicken tandoori 

1Kg chicken (make 4pieces) (make slice cuts in the pieces)

¼ cup fresh curd / Dahi

1 table spoon ginger garlic paste / Adrak lassan paste

1 lemon juice / Limbu juice

1 tea spoon coriander powder / Dhaniya powder

1 tea spoon cumin powder / Jeera powder

1 tea spoon turmeric powder / Haldi powder

1 tea spoon salt (or as per your taste) / Namak

1 tea spoon garam masala

1 tea spoon tandoori chicken masala

1 tea red chilli powder / Lal mirch powder

4 table spoon cooking oil / Tel

1 pinch red food colour (mix in 1 tea spoon water)

 

Ingredients for biryani

4 table spoon cooking oil / Tel

Add 2 onion slice cuts / Pyaaz

2 tomato fine chopped / Tamatar

1 tea spoon coriander powder / Dhaniya powder

1 tea spoon red chilli powder / Lal mirch powder

1 tea spoon cumin powder / Jeera powder

1 tea spoon turmeric powder / Haldi powder

1 tea spoon salt (or as per your taste) / Namak

1 lemon juice / Nimbu juice

½ cup fresh curd / Dahi

4 green chilli (or as pre your taste) / Hari mirch

½ cup fine chopped coriander leaves / Dhaniya leaves

½ cup fresh mint leaves fine chopped / Pudina

1 cup fried onion / Birista

1 pinch red food colour mix in 1 table spoon water / Pani

½ kg ¾ cooked Biryani Basmati rice

 

Ingredients for ¾ cooked basmati rice

Cinnamon stick (2inch) (Dar chini)

Cloves 5 to 6 pieces (Lavang)

Whole black pepper 5 to 6 pieces (Kali mirch)

Cardamom 3 to 4 pieces (Hari Elaichi)

1 tea spoon salt (Namak)

5 Glass water to boil the rice (Pani)

 

Preparation for tandoori chicken 

·       Take chicken, make cuts in all pieces.

·       Then take a bowl add curd, ginger garlic paste, lemon juice, coriander powder, cumin powder, turmeric powder, 1 tea spoon salt (as required), garam masala, tandoori chicken masala, red chilli powder, cooking oil, red food colour mix in 1 tea spoon water, mix it well.

·       Now place chicken pieces in masala and apply masala well to the chicken pieces make sure you apply masala inside the cuts which you have make in the pieces so that the masala will absorbed well in the chicken to give you a juice flavour.

·       Now cover lid & let it marinate in refrigerator for 2 to 3 hours (you can keep overnight also).

·       Then heat a pan add oil in the same.

·       Spread oil to entier pan.

·       And now place chicken pieces & shallow fry on medium flame.

·       Apply the left-over masala on chicken pieces.

·       Gently reverse the sides.

·       Continue frying chicken pieces on medium flame.

·       Again, reverse the side of all pieces.

·       Chickens are ready turn off the flame & keep them aside.

 

Preparation for biryani

·       Take ½ kg Basmati rice soaked it in water for 30 minutes

·       Than take a pot add 5 glass water in it & add cinnamon stick (2inch), Cloves 5 to 6 pieces, whole black pepper 5 to 6 pieces, cardamom 3 to 4 pieces, & 1 tea spoon salt & bring it to boil the water then add soaked basmati rice in it & boil on high flame time rice is ¾ cooked.

·       Once rice is ¾ cooked drain excess water & keep it aside. 

·       Take a pot add oil in the same.

·       Then add onion slice cuts.

·       Roast the same medium flame till onion turns golden brown in colour continuously stir so that onion does not burns.

·       Then add tomato, coriander powder, red chilli powder, cumin powder, turmeric powder, salt (as required), lemon juice in the same.

·       Mix well for 15 to 20 seconds.

·       Then add fresh curd in the same.

·       Roast on medium flame for 1 minute. Stir continuously.

·       Then add green chilli (as required) in the same.

·       Mix it well.

·       Cover lid & cook on low flame till tomatoes turns soft & oil starts separating (approx 5 to 6 minutes)

·       Uncover lid after 5 to 6 minutes.

·       Mix it well.

·       Add fine chopped coriander leaves, fresh mint leaves in the same.

·       Mix it well.

·       Then add fry onion (birista) in the same.

·       Now gently add ¾ cooked biryani basmati rice in the same.

·       Then add red food colour mixed in water.

·       Garnish birista on top of rice fry onion

·       And now place on it our chicken tandoori pieces.

·       Then cover lid & cook on low flame till steam appears (approx 10 to 12 minutes).

·       Uncover lid once steam appears.

·        Done.

·       Yummy! Chicken tandoori biryani is ready to serve.