Chicken Biryani
A takeaway-style chicken biryani with that authentic BIR flavour. Uses a pre-made base sauce for speed without sacrificing taste.
G2 Quick Base Sauce
1200 ml (4 portions) · 10 minutes · Easy
Key ingredients
½ of a 415 gm tin french onion soup (200 ml) · 1 tin (400 gm) tomato soup · 1 tbspn oil · ½ tspn salt · 1½ tspn garlic granules · 1½ tspn ground coriander · +2 more
Ingredients
- 1 tbspn oil
- 1 tspn g2 spice mix
- 100 gm onion (prepared weight)
- 1 portion of precooked g2 pre-cooked chicken or g2 pre-cooked chicken tikka
- ½ tspn methi (see note 1)
- Cooked basmati ( can use long grained)
- ¼ tspn salt
- Cucumber to garnish
- 1 tbspn flaked almonds
- Tomato to garnish
- 2 tspn sultanas
- Coriander to garnish
Method
- 1
Cut the c41 pre-cooked chicken into small pieces.
- 2
Chop the onion.
- 3
Slice a little cucumber and tomato into thin pieces for garnish.
- 4
Heat the oil in a suitable pan or wok and cook the onion for .
- 5
Stir in the methi, salt, almonds and sultanas and cook, stirring for .
- 6
Stir in the c41 spice mix and cook, stirring, for ½ min .
- 7
Add the c41 pre-cooked chicken, stir, and cook, for .
- 8
Carefully stir in the cooked rice (ensure this is hot - microwave for a couple of minutes if it has cooled) and cook for ½ min .
- 9
Garnish with a little chopped cucumber, tomato and freshly chopped coriander. In restaurants it is typically served with a curry sauce of some sort but I don't think this is really necessary.