Biryani has become one of the most ordered food items online and offline. Every household has one mad biryani lover who never says to biryani be it any time.
Biryani never disappoints you whether it’s chicken or mutton biryani. Recently I’ve tried traditional Mughlai Chicken Biryani Recipe.
Earlier it’s used to be less spicy and as time evolves it’s flavored evolves according to people’s tastes and interests.
This is very easy to make a biryani recipe as all of the ingredients are mostly available at home. Do try this and if you have any queries regarding its’ preparation can ask in comments below or at my youtube channel.
I’ve also attached a video for your reference. So let’s get started.
Mughlai Chicken Biryani Recipe
Preparation Time: 15min
Cooking Time: 1.5-2hr
Serve: 6-7 person
Ingredients for Mughlai Chicken Biryani Recipe:
Masala for Chicken Mixture:
- Chicken 1kg
- Garlic cloves 8-9
- Salt to taste
- Red chilies 5-6no
- Black Cardamom 1-2
- Green Cardamon 3-4
- Star anise 1-2
- Cinnamon 3-4
- black pepper 15-16 no
- cloves 17-19 no
- Onions sliced 3-4 medium
- Ginger garlic paste 1tsp each
- Curd 200gm
- Oil 6-7 tbsp
Masala For Rice:
- Rice 1kg (soaked 1hr)
- Cinnamon 6-7
- Black pepper 10-11 no
- Cloves 7-9 no
- Bay leaf 1-2no
- Green chilies 15-17 no as per taste
- Lemon juice 1 tbsp
- Salt to taste
For Garnishing:
- Rosewater 2 tsp
- Secret masala (Mace & nutmeg powder 1tsp each)
- Brown onions
- Food Color
- Green coriander
Mughlai Chicken Biryani Recipe:
Step 1: For Chicken Mixture
- In a pan add chicken, water, salt, garlic cloves, and red chilies. Put it on the stove and cook till water evaporates and chicken is 70% cooked.
- Remove the red chilies and transfer this mixture to another bowl and keep aside.
- To the same pan heat oil and add the onion. Fry till onions turn golden brown, add all the chicken masala and cook for 3-4 min.
- Add chicken and cook till oil separated. Then keep aside.
Step 2: For Rice preparation:
- Heat 3-4 cups of water, add all rice masala and boil it.
- Once water is boiled, add rice and boil till rice is 80% cooked.
- Turn off the stove. Strain water from rice.
Step 3: Assembling rice and chicken together:
- In the same bowl, layer some of the rice first evenly.
- The second layer, cover with all the chicken mixture evenly.
- Last layer with the remaining rice.
- Garnish with brown onions, rose water, green coriander, secret masala, and cover with the lid.
- Put on dum, 5min on high flame, 10 min on low flame (adjust timing accordingly.
- Serve hot with curd.
I like eating chicken biryani. I will try our your biryani recipe too sometime soon.
Biryani is all time favourite and I’ll definitely make this after Ramzan as the recipe is very easy to make.
I totally loved your version of the biryani & the way you have written it down step wise & in detail ; its easy for me to follow; we are a biryani loving household & definitely im trying this out soon.
Thanks for sharing such a detailed step by step guide to make one of the most sought after lucknowi dish 🙂
We love Biryani but the vegetarian variant. However the Chicken Biryani recipe can be tried out by substituting with vegetables.
I so feel like trying it right now buddy but not getting any chicken or eggs for the past two months here in Gujarat
Wow! My aunt was looking for a good chicken biriyani recipe… Thank you for sharing this. I will forward this to her!
Wow.. what could be the best article for a crazy biryani lover. I have bookmarked this for future reference. Thank you so much.
Chicken is like dream these days for us here. I will try out this recipe once the situation will go normal .
This is such a nice recipe, what changes we can make to try the vegetarian version of it?
I truly enjoy cooking biryani especially athome. It turns out so well. Your recipe is easy too. I will try this yummy recipe in Sunday.
We are vegetarians but I do like vegetable biryani. The blend of spices and rice along with seasonal veggies makes it a comfort food.
Making biriyani is very tedious. Glad that being a vegetarian I just have to share the recipe with my husband and he will put all the efforts to make it.
I’m a vegetarian but I’m sure this biryani looks colourful and delicious and would be a treat for non-veg lovers. Will share this recipe with friends.
I have recently given up eating non-veg food, but I can never resist a good Mutton or Chicken Biryani! Your recipe looks easy and authentic. Marking it as i hope to make it sometime.
Wow this recipe is so easy and the dish looks just yummy!! I am planning to try it out at home this weekend itself. Thank you for sharing this recipe with your readers!
I am a vegetarian but the recipe definitely looks delicious. Sharing it with a friend of mine who loves cooking non veg
Tomorrow being Sunday, this looks like the perfect recipe to brighten up the usually mundane lockdown weekend. Let me try this out and I am sure my family will love it.
Thanks for sharing this recipe, on of my close friends loves mughlai chichen biryai but she doesn’t know how to prepare it. I am going to share this recipe with her.
I have never tried making Chicken biryaani but now that we are craving so much for it and have a recipe from you, I guess I will try it soon
sharing this with my friends who just love this dish as if their life depends on it! haha – though I am a foodie, i have never understood the fascination with a dry rice dish… but reading this i see there is a lot that goes into its preparation!