Chicken Biryani

Servings: 8-10 people

Ingredients:

• 3 to 4 cups of Basmati rice
• 3 lbs. of whole chicken (skin off, cut into small pieces)
• 7 medium size onions
• 50 grams Sindhi biryani masala
• 1/2 tea spoon red chili powder
• 6 random sized tomatoes
• 5 table spoon of plain yogurt
• 7 cloves of garlic peel and cut
• 1 table spoon freshly ground ginger
• 1 cup cooking oil
• 1 table spoon of sea salt
• 2 pinch of orange or yellow food colouring

Directions:

Take a big cast iron woke, slice 6 onions and add 1/2 cup oil to the woke and cook on medium heat. When the onions become translucent add the sliced garlic cloves and stir for two minutes.

Add all the chicken in the woke and stir 2 to 3 times, then cover the woke with its lid for 15 to 20 minutes.
















After 15-20 minutes, remove the lid, and cook the chicken until all the water disappears. It will take approximately 30 minutes. When there is no water left in the woke, add all the spices (biryani masala and red chili powder) and stir.

After 3 minutes, add the peeled and cut tomatoes and stir.

Then add ground ginger and yogurt and stir on and off.

All the water from the tomatoes and yogurt will disappear after about 6 minutes since adding them.

During the above process, wash the basmati rice 3 times and let it soak for 15 minutes. Take a deep pot, add 1/4 cup of oil, 5 and 1/2 cups of water, and the sea salt, cook on medium-high heat. Let it boil, then drain the water from soaked rice and add the rice into the pot. Continue to cook this on medium high heat until all the water disappears.

When all the water has evaporated, take all the cooked rice and put it in the woke on top of the cooked chicken. Slice the remaining onion and fry it in a frying pan with rest of the oil. Put this fried onion with its oil on top of the rice and also sprinkle orange or yellow food colouring.

Turn on the heat onto very low (of the woke) and put the lid on for 10 to 15 minutes. Take off the lid for 10 minutes and turn off the heat, then mix carefully with a spatula and it is ready to serve!

Enjoy with or without yogurt.

Note: If you are cutting the ingredients into half then adjust the heat and cooking time accordingly.