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One Pot Chicken Breyani

Posted by Cape Malay Cooking & Other Delights

No mess, no fuss, cooked in one pot from raw ingredients, No pre-cooking required.

As you probably know there are hundreds of different breyani recipes out there. Each culture or country has at least one version of how to cook breyani. Alternative names: Biriyani, Biriani, Beriani, Briyani, Briani, Birani, Buriyani, Bariania, Beriani.

Biryani is a mixed rice dish originating from the Indian subcontinent. It is made with aromatic spices, rice, brown lentils and usually some type of meat, chicken or in some cases without any protein (meat). Usually fried potatoes and sometimes boiled eggs are added.

Salwaa’s Simple Chicken Breyani

Salwaa Smith – Cape Malay Cooking & Other Delights
From My Kitchen To Yours – keeping our heritage since 2011!

Ingredients:
1 chicken cut into pieces
1 tsp salt
1 tsp whole pepper corns
1 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp whole cumin seeds
1 tsp whole coriander seeds
2 tsp roasted masala or leaf masala
1/2 tsp tumeric
1 tsp whole fennel seeds
2 tsp garam masala
2 tsp freshly grated garlic
2 tsp freshly grated ginger
5 cardamom
5 allspice
5 cloves
3 pieces stick cinnamon
3 bay leaves
3 green chillies halved
1/2 cup of fresh mint leaves
1/2 cup fresh coriander leaves
3 medium onions braised very dark almost burnt in a little oil. ( keep about a TBSP aside)
1 cup of plain yoghurt or buttermilk
A few strands of saffron (optional)

Method: In a heavy based pot mix all the ingredients. Marinate for a few hours the longer the better

1 cup of cooked brown lentils (optional)
3-4, 1/2 cooked deep fried potatoes (optional)
4 cups of long grain white rice or basmati rice.

Cover 3-4 cups of rice with boiled water.
Add 1 tsp of salt and TBSP of oil, stir well and keep in boiling water for 30 minutes.After meat is well marinated in pot, put stove on high.

Add potatoes then lentils if you using it (optional)

Strain rice and layer over meat.
Add 2 cups of boiling water.

Cover with remaining braised onions and some fresh coriander.

Dot with butter (optional)

Cover pot.

After 5 minutes turn stove down to medium heat for 10 minutes then turn on low heat for a further 20 minutes.

Enjoy!