Herbal Chicken Biryani Recipe / Green Chicken Biryani / Nilgiri Biryani

Herbal Chicken Biryani is made with lots of mints and coriander leaves. This biryani turns out to be green in color and the actual name of this biryani is Nilgiri Biryani. This biryani is cooked with a handful of mint leaves, coriander leaves, green chilies and other whole spices which are ground and marinated.

I was very much inspired with this biryani which was shared by Priya Suresh. You can check her recipe here. This biryani turns out to be very tasty. I adjusted the spices according to our taste. There are no tomatoes in this dish and only onion is added along with ginger garlic paste. This preparation of biryani is very easy using the pressure cook method. If marination is done overnight, It takes only 15 to 20 mins to cook the entire process. You can even replace curd with coconut milk to get the flavorful biryani. Now let us see how to prepare this biryani.

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Herbal Chicken Biryani Recipe / Green Chicken Biryani / Nilgiri Biryani

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Herbal chicken Biryani / Nilgiri Biryani.

• CourseMain Dish
• CuisineSouth Indian

Servings	Prep Time
3 people	15 minutes (excluding marination time)

Cook Time

20 minutes

Servings Prep Time 3 people 15 minutes (excluding marination time)

Cook Time 20 minutes

Herbal Chicken Biryani Recipe / Green Chicken Biryani / Nilgiri Biryani Print Recipe Herbal chicken Biryani / Nilgiri Biryani. CourseMain Dish CuisineSouth Indian Servings Prep Time 3 people 15 minutes (excluding marination time) Cook Time 20 minutes Servings Prep Time 3 people 15 minutes (excluding marination time) Cook Time 20 minutes

Ingredients

• 1/2 kg Chicken
• 1.5 cups Basmati Rice
• 2 Onions slit lengthwise
• 1 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste
• 1/4 cup Yogurt
• 1.5 cups Water
• salt to taste
• 2 tbsp oil
• 2 Bay Leaves
• 1 Cardamom/Elachi
• 1 inch Cinnamon stick/Pattai to taste
• 2 Cloves

To grind

• 1 cup Mint Leaves/Pudina
• 1 cup Coriander Leaves/Kothamalli
• 4 Green chilies
• 1 Lemon Juice
• 1 inch Cinnamon stick/Pattai
• 1 Cardamom/Elachi
• 2 Cloves

For marination

• 1/4 cup Yogurt
• 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
• salt to taste
• Ground masala

Servings: people

Instructions

1. Grind all the ingredients given under "To grind". Soak basmati rice in enough water for half an hour.

   
2. Marinate the chicken with yogurt, salt, turmeric powder along with the above ground paste and let it sit for overnight or marinate at least for 2 hrs. Heat a pressure pan and add oil. Once the oil gets heated add bay leaves, cardamom, cinnamon stick, cloves and let it crackle.

   
3. Now add sliced onions and saute until the onion turns translucent. Then add ginger garlic paste and saute until raw smell goes. Now add marinated chicken, yogurt and saute until chicken is half cooked. Add water, required salt and bring it to boil.

   
4. Once the water starts to boil add the soaked rice and cook until 3/4th water is absorbed. Then close the lid and pressure cook on a medium flame for 2 whistles only. Once done switch off the flame. Let the pressure releases completely. Then open the lid and gently fluff the rice without breaking the rice. Herbal Chicken Biryani is ready to relish.

   

Recipe Notes

• Marinate chicken overnight for best result. If not at least marinate for 2 hrs.
• You can replace yogurt with fresh coconut milk too.
• Add a generous amount of fresh mint leaves and coriander leaves.
• Serve biryani along with raitha or any chicken gravy.

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