Healthy recipe: Smoked chicken biryani

Biryani is one of a many renouned dishes around a universe and each place has a possess normal process and character of cooking. Marika Johansson, a luminary nutritionist and owners of 6packmeals.com, shares her recipe of this image with a healthy turn to it. 

Prep time: 1 hr (+ 3 hr marination time)

Cooking time: 1 hr

Serves 6 people with a complicated appetite.

Ingredients

For a rice:

• 500g prolonged pellet brownish-red rice, cleared and drained

Spices:

• 1 star anise


• 2 brook leaves


• 2 black cardamom


• 2 tsp black cumin seeds


• 6 black peppercorn


• 6 immature cardamom


• 2 cinnamon sticks


• 6 cloves


• 1 tsp fennel


• ¼jaiphal (nutmeg)


• 1 javitri (mace)


• 3 tsp salt

For duck marination:

• 1 kg duck breast weak cut in 2 inches pieces


• 1 tbsp garam masala


• 2 tbsp ginger garlic paste


• 3 tbsp tender papaya paste


• 4 tbsp hung slim/fat-free curd


• Juice of 1 lemon


• 1 tbsp red chilli powder


• 1 tsp salt

For a biryani masala:

• 4 onions, thinly sliced


• 2 tomatoes, chopped


• ¼th crater slick milk, warm


• Saffron strands


• Olive Oil


• Rose water


• Kewra essence


• 4 immature chillies

Method

Marinating chicken:

• To a chicken, supplement a beaten curd, ginger-garlic paste, tender papaya paste, chilli powder, salt, lemon juice, garam masala.


• Allow a duck to marinate for 3 hours.

Making air-fried onions:

• Slice 2 onions really thinly. Separate a slices.


• Add a splash of sea salt and a drizzle of additional pure olive oil. Toss compartment all a slices have separated.


• Place them in a atmosphere fryer during 180 degrees for about 8-10 mins. Make certain they are dim brownish-red in colour.


• Once done, mislay in a plate. This boiled onion is famous as barista that is one of a essential garnishes of biryani.


• If we do not have an atmosphere fryer, we can even fry a onions in a oven during a same feverishness for a same time.

Cooking chicken:

• Add 2 tbsp of olive oil to a vessel and feverishness it up. 


• Add remaining sliced onions and immature chillies. Cook, stirring continuously, compartment onions are light golden-brown.


• Add ginger pulp and garlic pulp and brew well.


• Add cooking duck and prepare on high feverishness for 7 to 8 minutes.


• Add coriander powder, cumin powder and red chilli powder. Mix thoroughly.


• Stir in 3 cups of water, move it to a boil, revoke feverishness and prepare lonesome compartment duck is roughly cooked.


• Add tomatoes, salt, garam masala powder and uninformed coriander leaves.


• Cook for 15 mins on middle heat, stirring occasionally. The oil would be distant from a spices and there should not be any flowing gravy in a meat.

Preparing rice:

• Use usually good peculiarity prolonged pellet brownish-red rice. Soak a rice for 20 mins in water. Wash good compartment a H2O runs clear. Drain all a water.


• In a tiny square of cloth take cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, javitri, jaiphal, black peppercorn, shahi jeera, and star anise and tie a tangle to make a bag (potli). 


• Bring 750 ml H2O to boil, supplement rice, brook leaf, salt and potli, cover and prepare compartment rice is finished 1/3rd.


• Drain a H2O and mislay a whole masala potli.

Preparing saffron-milk:

• Take 1/4th crater warm, slick divert in a crater and disintegrate saffron strands in a milk.


• Cover and wait for 20 minutes. Add rose H2O and kewra hint in a milk. Mix good and cover. Keep aside.

Layering a biryani:

• Take a vast complicated bottom vessel with parsimonious wise lid.


• Grease a vessel with olive oil.


• Add a covering of baked rice, and afterwards baked beef pieces, shower saffron water, supplement boiled onion slices and ghee.


• Again supplement a covering of rice, afterwards chicken… Go on like this compartment we are done. Top and bottom covering will be of rice.


• Cover with chopped pudina and coriander, air-fried onion and cut immature chillies and extract of half a lemon.

For smoking a biryani:

• Place 3 chunks of spark and put it on glow compartment it is prohibited and becomes red in colour.


• In a meanwhile, take a tiny immaculate steel bowl/katori and supplement 1 cinnamon stick, 3 cardamom pods and 3-4 cloves.


• Use a span of tongs and place a prohibited pieces of spark in this katori with spices. Press a katori in a centre of a biryani vessel and supplement 1 tbsp of ghee over it. Cover it immediately and place a complicated intent on a lid, this ensures a fume does not escape.


• This is to be finished quickly as a spark starts to fume when ghee is added. Allow it fume for 10-15 mins compartment a whole smokey essence blends in a biryani.


• Serve hot.

For raita:

• Take 5 tbsp hung slim/fat-free yoghurt.


• Add 2 tsp of toasted flaxseeds, 2 tsp of toasted sunflower seeds.


• Now supplement half a play of pomegranate, salt and 1 tsp cumin powder.


• You can also ad ½ tsp discuss masala.


• Mix well.

Image source: Marika Johansson 

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Healthy recipe: Smoked chicken biryani