Kachi biryani is a non-vegetarian recipe with rice and chicken as the main ingredients. This rice meal is prepared easily, takes less time to prepare, and is delicious.
Ingredients
The ingredients of kachi biryani include:
- 1 kg fine long grained rice
- 1 kg chicken cut into 8/10 pieces
- 400 gm sliced onion
- 200 gm of tomatoes cut into pieces
- 200 gm of curd
- 100 gm cooking oil
- 2 lemons
- 1 ½ tbsp of garlic-ginger paste
- 2 tsp of whole garam masala
- 1 tsp of garam masala powdered
- 1 tsp of turmeric powder
- 1 tsp of red chili powder
- Mint and coriander leaves
- Salt to taste
Preparing Kachi biryani
Kachi biryani is prepared in the following process:
- Marinate the chicken pieces with curd, garlic-ginger paste, garam masala powder, red chili powder, turmeric powder, mint and coriander leaves, and salt for about 4 hours;
- Fry onions in a pan till brown and crush them;
- Add fried onion paste, tomatoes, and lemon juice to the chicken pieces; set it aside; Soak rice for half an hour,
- Take a vessel and boil 8 cups of water, then add salt and one lemon juice. After the water starts to boil add soaked rice and boil for a couple of minutes. Drain away the excess water;
- Take a deep vessel greased with oil. Place the marinated chicken pieces and add the oil left after frying the onions.
- To this add the boiled and drained rice, cover the vessel with foil and put it on high flame for about 5 minutes. Thereafter simmer the vessel for another fifteen minutes.
- Remove vessel from flame and keep it covered for another 15 minutes.
- Serve hot accompanied by raita.
- Kachi biryani is easily prepared and housewives prefer to cook this recipe at home.
