Chicken biryani

I’ll be honest, this recipe didn’t really grab me straight away, but I decided to try it as my dad picked it out as one he would like to try, so I thought I would give it a go.

Serves 4 – Ready in 40 minutes including prep

Ingredients

·         300g basmati rice

·         25g butter

·         1 large onion, finely sliced

·         1 bay leaf

·         3 cardamom pods

·         Small cinnamon stick

·         1 tsp turmeric

·         4 skinless chicken breasts, cut into large chunks

·         4 tbsp curry paste

·         85g raisins

·         850ml chicken stock

·         Chopped coriander

·         Toasted flaked almonds to serve

Now for the How To:

·         Soak the rice in warm water, and then wash in cold until the water runs clear.

·         Heat the butter in a saucepan and cook the onions with the bay leaf and the other whole spices for 10 minutes.

·         Sprinkle in the turmeric.

·         Add the chicken and curry paste and cook until aromatic.

·         Stir the rice into the pan with the raisins.

·         Pour over the stock.

·         Place a tight fitting lid on the pan and bring to a hard boil.

·         Lower the heat to a minimum and cook the rice for another 5 minutes.

·         Turn off the heat and leave for 10 minutes.

·         Stir well, mixing through half the coriander.

·         To serve scatter over the rest of the coriander and the almonds. 

Again a recipe with coriander, but this time I left it out, I feel if I am going adding a little bit to the dish and the rest is for garnish then it’s not going to add a huge difference to the dish, and so I omitted that, I also left out the raisins, this is simply because I hate them possibly even more than coriander! I have to pick out the raisins from a muesli mix and I just can’t stand them, no idea why, when I was younger, I used to eat them by the little small box full’s, but as I got older, I just can’t stand them, maybe it’s because when I was little I only ate them on their own and not part of a dish? I don’t know I'm weird, I know this.

Other than that, I thought the dish was average, nothing really stood out to me, it was nice, and it was full of flavour, but I'm not sure what exactly I didn’t enjoy with it, but to me it lacked something, and I wasn’t wowed, as I have been previously with some of the other recipes.

So you know a lot of my weird food habits, what are some of yours?

My dad also picked the next recipe, Chicken chow mein.

Bye for Now! x