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Assemble your ingredients! 2 pounds of chicken or beef, one onion, three potatoes and three tomatoes! 🍅
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Slice the onion and tomatoes into little pieces, but cube the potatoes and chicken! 🔪 (Meat not shown in this picture)
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Measure out 2 1/2 cups of basmati rice and 5 cups of water
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Put the rice and water on a pot at high heat and bring it to a boil, then turn down the heat and let it cook.
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Meanwhile, start by frying your onions till it's golden in color! Add about two tablespoons of garlic here
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Add your chicken, tomatoes and potatoes all into the pot!
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Pour your Shan Biryani Masala over all the ingredients. Use less if you don't like spicy food! You can find this at most Middle Eastern/Indian markets. You can make this yourself if you want!
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This spice mix contains: salt, red chili, dried plums with pits, paprika, coriander, turmeric, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, black pepper, ginger, caraway, aniseed, and brown cardamom. SO MANY FLAVORS!
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Add a couple chilli peppers and 1/4 cup of water!
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Add in two heaping tablespoons of yogurt and mix it all in together! Cook covered on medium/high heat till meat is tender :)
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You should drain the rice when it's cooked a little more than half way. This is because we will eventually mix the chicken mixture and its sauce so we don't want the rice to be soggy!
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Now you're going to take your rice and meat and start layering it on top of each other. Start with a bed of rice, then put the fully cooked meat/potato mixture over it and repeat about two more times!
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The last layer! Don't worry about the excess liquid from the meat/potato mixture, since the rice is half cooked it's going to soak up all the juices and make for flavor packed rice!
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Chop up some cilantro and put it on top of everything. Cover the pot and let this simmer on low heat for 15-20 minutes so all the flavors meld in with each other!
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To pair with your biryani you can make this yogurt sauce! It really helps to cut the heat if the biryani is too spicy for you. Take a cup of yogurt, mint leaves, cilantro, salt and pepper and mix! 🌿
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This is what it should look like! Add a little water for a saucy consistency. You can cover and refrigerate for 20 minutes or so so that the flavors marry!
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Pour on top of your biryani and enjoy!!!! 🍴
Ingredients
2 | Pounds Chicken or beef |
1 | Onion |
3 | Tomatoes |
3 | Potatoes |
2½ | Cups Basmati Rice |
1 | Cup Packet Shan Masala for Biryani |
1 | Cup Yogurt |
Cilantro and mint leaves | |
Garlic |