Dr.Chikna

Afghani Biryani (Ruz Bukhari)

Ingredients:
1 Chicken (cut into serving pieces)
2 cups of Basmati Rice (washed & presoaked)
1 Onion (peeled & chopped)
1 Carrot (chopped)
7 fresh Tomatoes (pureed in blender)
Almonds (Baadaam) (slivered & fried) (for garnish)
Raisins (Kishmish) (for garnish)
10 Whole Cardamom Seeds (Ilaichi Danay)
10 Cloves (Long)
1 Cinnamon Stick (Dal Cheeni)
½ tsp. Cumin Seeds (Saabut Sufaid Zeera)
Salt (to taste)
Black Pepper Powder (Pisi Kaali Mirch) (to taste)
Cooking Oil

Instructions:
1) Saute the onions and carrot in cooking oil. Add the chicken and mix. Then add the: cardamom seeds, cloves, cinnamon stick, cumin seeds, salt and black pepper and mix. Continue to fry until the chicken is half done.
2) When the chicken is half done, add the tomato puree and mix. Continue to cook over low heat with pot covered, until the chicken is well done.
3) Separately in a different pot, boil rice in water until cooked and drain.
4) Finally cover rice with chicken and spices and let cook covered on very low heat for 5 minutes.
Serving Suggestions: Garnish with fried almonds and raisins on top for a most exquisite and delicious taste.

living

If we add carrot with the onions, wouldn't they be overcooked??

Dr.Chikna

When cooking onions and carrot together, start cooking onion first, when ½ cooked add in the carrot. This way the carrot won’t over cook.

Aliyish

Its more or less like Afghani pilaau then some thing ya call as Biryani ...!

Lusi

^^ It is not Pulao. Pulao is made in the yakhni of whatever pulao you are making. This is a biryani thing because you cook rice and the salan thing seperately and then just layer it.


Dr. Chikkna, thanks for the recipe. I guess I will try it out when I am home. My mom makes pulao with all nuts and stuff and it is yumious. This biryani sounds very delicious...

uetian2k1

this is the perfect recipe..only change is the thing that i put rice over the gravy and chicken so they turn brown ,hence called pulao...whenever i make i do like this..

but if u put gravy over the rice the colour doesn't change ..so called biryani...

anyhow which way u do this recipe is perfectly okay !

Aliyish

So let’s say .. if I cook chicken curry and rice separate and then mix both or layer it .. will it become Biryani ?

Biryani … it has some spices which should go with the yoke .. Such as haldi (turmeric) , bay leaf (Taiz patt) and blades mace ( me ma calls it Jafil javitri)..

P.s : No hard feelings . You all can happily call it Biryani ..

Lusi

Well for a pulao to be pulao, you have to cook the rice in the yakhni. It cannot be pulao if you just mix curry and white rice. So call it something else but Pulao.


P.s : No hard feelings . You all can happily call it anything but Pulao

Mostar95

Yes the most important ingredient of Biryani and Qorma.

jaadugar

Another famous rice dish from Afghanistan is called "Kabli Palao". But in Kabli Palao they use lamb/goat meat and fried carrots are used in the garnish along with raisins.

COCO

sounds easy enough..i will try ti!