Majboos Chicken Biryani

Majboos Chicken Biryani & Dhakous

Ingredients:

Basmati Rice – 2-1/2 Cups

Chicken Big Pieces – 6 to 8 PCs.

Onion – 2 Nos. chopped finely & 1 No. finely shredded & fried.

Tomatoes – 2 Nos. chopped finely

Garlic – 2 Tbsp

Ginger – 1 Tbsp

Green Chillies – 4/5 or as spice you require

Jeera – 1 tsp

Whole Black Pepper – 8/10 PCs.

Elachi – 2 PCs.

 Bay Leaves – 4 PCs.

Cloves – 4 PCs.

Cinnamon stick – 2 PCs. each 1”

Red Chilli Powder – 1 Tbsp

Turmeric Powder – 1 Tsp

Lemon Juice – 1 Tbsp

Ghee – 3 Tbsp

Olive oil – 4 Tbsp

Normal cooking Oil – 1 Tbsp

Water – 6 cups

Salt as per taste

Charcoal – 1 pc.

Method:

1) Wash & clean the chicken and keep a side.

2) Take a thick vessel & put ghee and let it melt. As soon as it melted put chopped onion and let it cook till its pinkish.

3) Add now ginger, garlic & green chilli paste & mix well. After 5 minutes add chopped tomatoes and mix well.

4) After 5 minutes add all whole masala, red chilli, turmeric & lemon and mix well.

5) After you start getting aroma put chicken and mix well & then add water and cover it with lid for 20 to 25 minutes.

6) After 20 to 25 minutes when you find chicken is done put off the gas and remove only chicken pieces from the gravy and keep aside.

7) Now wash the rice nicely and put the rice in the chicken gravy and mix only once and let it boil. When you noticed water is about to finish then cover the vessel and cook the rice on low frame for 10 minutes.

8) By the time rice is cooked take chicken pieces in a baking tray and put Olive oil on top of chicken and over the baking tray with foil.

9) Keep the chicken in an oven and start lower gas at on 200 Deg C & upper gas at slow and cook for 20 minutes.

    10)    Afterward check the rice and if done put off the gas and in mean time arrange 1 piece of charcoal and burn the same.

   11)    When chicken is baked put off the oven and remove the dish out and open the foil and put 1 tbsp normal cooking oil in a small container and put the burning charcoal in oil and immediately keep the container inside the baking tray and cover the tray immediately so that chicken get charcoal smoke effect.

   12)    After 5 minutes arrange the rice on a serving plate with 2 pieces of chicken on top of the rice and then garnished with fried onion…. J

Note:

Actual Arabic Majboos is made with Skin on Chicken and also some preferred chicken to be fried instead of baking and also is not much spicy.

Dhakous Ingredients:

Tomato: 5-6 Medium size roughly cut

Onion: 3 Medium size roughly cut

Garlic: 8-10pods

Ginger: 2"

Green Chilli: 5-6 (as per the spice you require)

Black Pepper Whole: 1 tbspn

Tomato Paste: 2-3 tbspn

Kashmiri Red Chilli Powder: 1.5 tspn

Turmeric Powder: 1tspn

Red Chilli Powder: 1tspn

Coriander Powder: 1.5tspn

Jeera (Cumin) Powder: 1tspn

Oil: 2tbspn + 1 tbspn

Water: as required

Salt: as per taste

Method:

1) Wash Tomato, Onion & Green Chilli and cut them roughly.

2) Now take a thick sauce pan on medium high heat add 2tbspn oil and as soon as oil is hot add onion, garlic, ginger, green chilli and black pepper and saute till onion is pinkish in color.

3) Now add tomato and mix nicely and then cover the sauce pan and reduce the heat of gas to medium low flame and let it cook for 15-20 minutes till you see tomatoes are mussy. But please keep on stirring in middle so that it should not get burned.

4) After 15-20 minutes when you find tomatoes are mussy put off the gas and don't remove cover from sauce pan keep it cover till it becomes cool.

5) Once it's cool take the mixture in grinder and grind the mixture in a fine paste.

6) In same sauce pan add balance 1 tbspn oil and then add grinded paste and let it boil then add Kashmiri Red Chilli, Turmeric, Red Chilli, Coriander & Jeera powder along with salt and mix the mixture. 

7) Now add tomato paste and water as per the thickness you require and cover the sauce pan and let it cook for 15-20 minutes & serve hot - hot with Majbous.

P.S.: many prefer plain Dhakous instead you would like Potatoes, Green Peas then you can add the same when you add tomato paste and water and cook on low flame till potatoes and green peas are tender.