Preparation Time : 40 minutes
Cooking Time : 30 minutes
Serving : 4 to 5 members
Description
My kids favourite dish . Both my kids did their schooling in boarding schools . My every visit their first wanted thing in their list would be macaroni biriyani . I used to make loads for them as their friends also were great fans of macroni biriyani . I learnt this dish from my mother in law . Even till date how much ever I prepare at home , there has never been left overs of macroni biriyani . A dish apt for guests , kids , dinner at home or even for lunch box to school .
Ingredients
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| chicken | 1/2 kg cut into small pieces ( can use mutton , vegetarians can use half kg mixed vegetables ) |
| onion | 6 sliced |
| tomato | 4 chopped |
| green chillies | 10 slit |
| coriander leaves | 1/4 cup chopped |
| mint leaves | 1/4 cup |
| lime juice | 1 |
| ginger garlic paste | 2 tea spoon |
| curd | 1 cup |
| ghee | 100 gm |
| cinnamon | 3 pieces |
| cloves | 4 |
| cardamom | 4 |
| turmeric powder | 1 teaspoon |
| chilli powder | 1/2 teaspoon |
| salt | to taste |
| grated coconut | 1/4 cup |
| cashew nuts | 6 ( grind coconut and cashew nuts together to a smooth paste ) |
| macaroni | 500 gm ( boiled in salted water and drained ) |
Method
- Heat ghee in a pressure cooker , add cinnamon , cloves and cardamom . Top with sliced onions and fry till brown in color for 10 minutes .
- Add ginger garlic paste and fry to crisp .Top with chicken , tomato , green chillies , mint leaves , coriander leaves , curd , turmeric powder , chilli powder and salt to taste .
- Mix well and sauté for another 10 minutes till all the juices are oozed out . Add 4 cups of water , mix well .
- Pressure cook for one whistle or until chicken is cooked and tender . Dilute the ground coconut cashewnut paste in little water , add to the cooked chicken mixture .
- Mix well adding lime juice . Taste and adjust . The salt , sourness and hotness should be more than what you want , so that when mixed with macroni it tastes right .
- Mix in the boiled macroni and mix well . Keep in low flame for 5 minutes till all the flavours infuse together .
- Serve hot with onion raitha .
