Mild Chicken Biryani

This mild chicken biryani is not too hot and suitable for children. This is a very easy biryani recipe and shows you how to make chicken biryani. It is delicious when served with a tzatziki sauce. If you want a low-fat biryani, simply leave out the fried potatoes. Without potatoes, this dish also freezes very well.

Mild Chicken Biryani

A chicken Biryani that is not too hot.

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Prep Time 2 hours hrs

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 2 hours hrs 28 minutes mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine Indian, South African

Servings 4

Calories 3633 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 4 pieces of chicken deboned and skinless
• 1 cup black lentils
• 1 cup rice
• 3 tsp salt
• 4 onions diced
• ¾ cup plain yogurt
• juice of 1 lemon
• 1 tin tomato paste
• 1 tsp crushed garlic
• 1 tsp ginger
• ½ tsp turmeric
• 1 tbsp curry powder
• ½ tsp aniseed
• 3 sticks cinnamon
• ½ green pepper diced
• ½ red pepper diced
• 2 potatoes small
• ½ cup oil

Instructions

 

• Fry the onions in the oil, adding curry powder and turmeric.
• Mix into that the green peppers, 1 tsp salt, ginger, aniseed, garlic, and lemon juice.
• Add tomato paste and yogurt.
• Marinate the chicken in the mix for 1½ hours. Add the cinnamon sticks.
• In the meantime, boil the lentils in 2½ cups water with 1 tsp salt.
• Boil the rice in 2½ cups water with 1 tsp salt.
• Fry diced potato cubes in oil.
• Boil chicken in the marinade until cooked - approximately 20-30 minutes. Remove cinnamon sticks.
• Mix together the cooked rice, lentils, chicken and potato cubes.

Nutrition

Calories: 3633kcalCarbohydrates: 101gProtein: 272gFat: 232gSaturated Fat: 61gCholesterol: 1008mgSodium: 3059mgPotassium: 3782mgFiber: 19gSugar: 13gVitamin A: 3100IUVitamin C: 84mgCalcium: 352mgIron: 22mg

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