THE BEST CHICKEN BIRYANI | THE GOLDEN BALANCE

hello golden family i am so excited for this video due to popular demand we're making chicken biryani in my opinion it's one of the most flavorful dishes out there and fun fact my neighbors slash close friend were indian so i grew up eating the most delicious biryani in the world and i actually consulted her for this recipe shout out to khaled zarina now if you know the golden balance you know we pay our respects to the authenticity of the dish but at the same time i like to make it easy for everybody so here we go the golden balance times chicken biryani to create our beautiful curry paste we need a red onion and i actually like to add a shallot sharp knife so you don't bruise the onion then you don't cry like a baby and we want thin slices [Applause] we want nice beautiful chunks of our tomato these are going to cook down to smithereens anyway we invite fresh mint and cilantro to the party then we slice and dice until they're beautifully fine fun fact the only culinary experience i've ever received was actually in dubai i worked at a restaurant for like two months and i used to cut like literally 300 onions at a time i worked with several indian and filipino chefs and they're one of the best cooks i've ever tasted their food from they taught me some of their chicks for this biryani too now baby if you can't handle the spice don't step foot in the kitchen because we want to have some fun just a quick tip for peeling ginger usually has a lot of nubs and crevices the most effective thing in the world is using a spoon just like this if you don't have a mortar and pestle you could easily just very thinly slice it and then mash them up with the back of the knife or go in with your ginger and a very generous amount of garlic and this is to complete our curry paste we're going to mash oops we're gonna mash her all up until it turns into a paste majority of our prep is finished now you have to tell me for these youtube videos do you prefer me showing you the prep and kind of just like explaining the ingredients and kind of showing you how i prep them or do you want me to prep before the video and the recipe would be more of compiling the actual ingredients just let me know your boy's still trying to get used to like the long-form content and don't forget i love you all now in a beautifully hot pan we're gonna go in with a little ghee okay well maybe not a little bit a lot of bit and ghee is clarified butter to really get the flavor out of our spices we're going to toast them i have some cloves this is the dude from the apple jacks commercial some beautiful cardamom pods you never want to get cut eating one of these inside the rice and then we add a beautiful bay leaf now if you have access to star and east please use it i literally could just not find it now that we get a nice toasty toast we're gonna add our onions [Music] we're gonna sweat these down for a couple minutes and oh yeah i totally forgot we're gonna add a bunch of green chilies these have a really nice kick to them it's gonna introduce some spiciness and that's where the flavor comes from baby now it smells gorgeous in here that's why i love this rice so much biryani just packed with flavor but it does take a lot of love and patience now now it's time to add the ginger garlic paste we're gonna cook this for another couple minutes then add your beautiful tomatoes they're gonna release their moisture and really wilt down now it's been several minutes and i'm still being very patient we want it to turn into like a pasty form we used to do this in the restaurant in dubai and it would take like an hour and a half because we had so many onions and tomatoes and everything but the flavors and the results are worth it just be patient finally this is exactly what we're looking for now at this point you can either add kefir cheese or a whole bunch of yogurt and i'm doing a bunch of plain yogurt this is going to give it creaminess and help tenderize the chicken add a whole lot of paprika and definitely don't be shy a generous amount of red chili powder and garam masala and where my manners i totally forgot about the salt we're gonna mix it all up on a low heat just so the yogurt doesn't separate and burn it should be a nice dark red color and now we're gonna drop in our whole butchered chicken the bones and everything we want all that flavor we're gonna make sure everything is nice and submerged now you could definitely skin the chicken and score it if you'd like we're gonna let this mixture toss and turn for about 20 to 30 minutes just a light bubble cover it and let it cook for about 20 to 30 minutes now as you know biryani does not skimp out on flavor even for the boiling rice we're gonna season it up and flavor it up and then we're gonna add it to our curry mixture it's gonna be extremely delicious now i have some boiling water for the rice we're going to be using a long grain basmati rice we're going to wash the rice and make sure there's not that much starch you can definitely soak the rice for about an hour i know a lot of people that do but i'm not i'm just going to be washing it we're going to be cooking it in boiling water so the ratios don't even matter that much now we have our water vigorously boiling we're gonna add similar spices that we did earlier another bay leaf a couple cardamom pods more clove we already met this guy and now actually we're gonna add cilantro and a bunch of fresh mint we're gonna turn the water into the ocean and then we're gonna go in with our washed basmati rice a stir so the rice isn't stuck at the bottom and then we're gonna let this do its dance for a couple minutes the goal is to cook the rice about 70 to 75 of the way it's gonna be slightly hard and then we're gonna add it to the curry mixture we're undercooking it just a little bit so when you add it to that mixture it's going to absorb all those beautiful flavors and continue cooking with everything else i'm literally so excited for this it smells amazing in here now in the meantime when everyone's doing their thing make sure you clean up the kitchen see the rice is cooked about 75 of the way now it doesn't really mush into your hand it's still kind of firm but the outer layers are soft [Music] so this has been cooking for about 30 minutes remember the chicken went in raw so it still has to fully cook now while using a spoon if you scrape the bottom and it's kind of sticking that's not a good sign you want to make sure that the temperature is not way too hot so it's not sticking and burning at the bottom but at the same time there's a nice subtle bubble now we're going to add our rice to the surface but we're not going to mix it we're going to cover this and cook it for another 20-30 minutes so the rice sort of seeps into the yogurt and the chicken and all that curry paste and it's like it's actually insane it smells beautiful right now i'm gonna do some saffron water just to give it some color and that step is absolutely um optional and now i'm just gonna flip everything in oh my god oh we're gonna go in some more fresh cinadro a bunch of fresh mint and a generous amount of crispy onions now this is extremely hot but as always we have final no i don't like that and now we have final product and it's clearly still steaming but we want to give this a shot the chicken just falls right off the bone grab a little bit of that rice and as always [Music] wow that's very good very flavorful i don't leave it too long on on the heat because if you overcook it the rice will turn mushy but i wanted to thank everyone for the love and support y'all are truly the best humans in the world i really appreciate it don't forget to turn on post notifications like and subscribe give drop your boy a follow if you haven't been following and oh yeah it's like 10 p.m already broke my fast so that's why i was eating ramadan kadeem to everyone that's celebrating

Channel: The Golden Balance

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Length: 6min 13sec (373 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 30 2021