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Jul30

Chicken Biryani – Tamil Nadu Style

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I use to prepare this chicken briyani, once in a while. Since my hubby loves a lot. I never wish to have briyani, but later after marriage when I come to know that my hubby’s favourite is Briyani. I started to cook Briyani and the most important I too started to love Briyani.

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Chicken Biryani - TamilNadu Style

Chicken Biryani – TamilNadu Style

Ingredients:  

  • Chicken – ½ Kg
  • Long grained (Basmathi) rice – 3 cups
  • Onions – 2 ½ nos
  • Tomato – 1 ½ nos
  • Green chillies – 2 nos
  • Coriander leaves – a bunch
  • Mint leaves – a bunch
  • Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
  • Chilli powder – 1 ½ tsp
  • Coriander powder – 2 ½ tsp
  • Ghee – 1 tbsp
  • Oil – 1 tbsp
  • Ginger – 6 cloves
  • Garlic – 1 “inch stick
  • Cloves – 3 nos
  • Cinnamon – 1” inch stick
  • Bay leaves – 2 nos
  • Star anise – 2 nos
  • Cardamom – 3 nos
  • Lemon juice – 1 tsp
  • Salt to taste

Making of Chicken Biryani – TamilNadu Style –

Preparation:

  • Finely chop onions, tomatoes, coriander and mint leaves. Slit the green chillies.Crush ginger and garlic.
  • Wash and soak the for about 10 mins in water.
  • Heat oil and ghee in a heavy bottomed bowl.
  • Add all the spices (cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, star anise and bay leaf), wait until it splutter for 5 mins.
  • Add the green chillies, ginger and garlic, cook until the raw smell goes off.
  • Add the coriander and mint leaves, cook until they turn dark green in color.
  • Add the onions, cook until they turn transparent.
  • Add the tomatoes and cook until they turn mushy.
  • Add the chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt, cook for a min or until the raw smell goes off.
  • Add the chicken, cook for 2 mins.
  • Add the rice, salt and pour water, give a gentle stir.
  • Cover and cook or pressure cook for 2 whistles once the water starts boiling, by adding 3 drops of lemon juice.
  • Release the lid when pressure releases or remove the lid when the rice is cooked.
  • Give a stir and serve hot.
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Spices getting fried in ghee
Chicken getting fried
Chicken Biryani – TamilNadu Style

Serve hot with onion raita, gravy.

 

May26

Egg curry/Mutta kuzhambu (Chettinad style)

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Egg curries are made in different forms, this is chettinad style. Some

Egg curry/Mutta kuzhambu

Egg curry/Mutta kuzhambu

thing which everyone in my house loved.

 

Ingredients:

  • Egg – 6 nos
  • Big onion – 3 nos
  • Red chillies – 4 nos
  • Coconut – 1 tbsp
  • Coriander seeds – 1 ½ tsp
  • Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
  • Methi/Fenugreek seeds – ¼ tsp
  • Anise – 1 tsp
  • Cinnamon – ½ inch stick
  • Cloves – 2 nos
  • Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
  • Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp
  • Split blackgram – ¼ tsp
  • Curry leaves – a strand
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil – 2 tsp

Preparation:

  • Chop onion into pieces and chop one onion into small pieces.
  • Dry roast red chillies, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, anise, methi, cinnamon, cloves and coconut.
  • Let it cool and grind it to a paste.
  • Heat oil in a kadai. Put mustard, blackgram and curry leaves. Let it crackle.
  • Put onion and fry them till they become transclusent.
  • Now pour in the grounded paste. Fry till the raw smell goes.
  • Put turmeric powder and salt.
  • Pour 2-3 cups of water and cover it with lid. Bring them to boil.
  • Now break the eggs into the boiling curry. Cover with the lid. Do not stir in.
  • Let it cook for 10 mins and the oil get separate.
  • Wait till the curry gets thicken.
  • Garnish with coriander leaves.

Serve hot with rice.

Note: Here the consistency of the gravy iw very important, since more the water in gravy will never taste good.