Parda Chilman Biryani: English – Urdu Recipe

Parda Chilman Biryani

Ingredients:

1. Chicken – ½ kg
2. Ginger garlic paste – 2 tbsp
3. Salt – to taste
4. Onion – 3
5. Potato – 2 boiled in orange food color
6. Cloves – 12
7. Ghee – ½ cup
8. Star anise – 4
9. Black pepper – 6
10. Green cardamoms – 8
11. Cinnamon sticks – 4 pieces
12. Big cardamoms – 4
13. Tomato – 3 cut in rings
14. Mint – ¼ bunch
15. Fresh coriander – ½ bunch
16. Turmeric powder – 1 tbsp
17. Red chili powder – 1 tbsp
18. Cumin seeds – ½ tbsp
19. Dry plums – 100 g
20. Yogurt – 250 g
21. Orange food color – ½ tsp
22. Green chilies – 6 make a paste
23. Kewra water – 2 tbsp
24. Rice – 1/2 kg
25. Puff Pastry sheet – 1

Method:

• In a pan add ghee and fry onions, until golden.
• Then take out 2 tbsp golden fried onions for garnishing and add ginger garlic paste in the rest of the onions, fry a bit, then add whole spices and fry for 1 sec and add chicken and fry until it turns into a white color and done more then half.
• Then add tomato, mint, fresh coriander, turmeric powder, red chili powder, cumin seeds, salt, green chili paste and plums, mix well with light hands to make sure you don’t break tomato rings.
• Now add food color in yogurt, mix and pour on cooked gravy.
• When it starts boiling, add boiled potato, mix well and switchoff the flame.
• Now in separate pan, add water, salt and ½ cumin seeds, heat up for 2 minutes and add rice.
• When starts boiling, take out some rice and spread on cooked gravy, then let them cook remaining rice until half done.
• Then drain and spread on gravy.
• On top of the rice, pour kewra water, mace powder, nutmeg powder, greencardamom powder and big cardamom powder, take equal quantity and use 1 tsp, some ghee and golden fried onion, put on dum for 15 to 20 minutes.

• When biryani is done, put some in oven dish and cover with puff pastry crust, apply beaten egg with brush and bake in preheated oven on 160 degree centigrade for 15 to 20 minutes.
• Serve hot.
• Puff pastry crust recipe told you before.
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