Kerala Style Coconut Milk Chicken Biryani Recipe- Super Suvai Tamil

Kerala Style Coconut Milk Chicken Biryani Recipe

When I was thinking about living in Chennai, the first thing that came to my mind is the beach and the second thing is chicken biryani. Because there are some many shops are here to sell chicken biryani. From street-side hotels to top-class restaurants have this recipe in their menu card. The chicken Biryani recipe is a very favorite recipe for all in Chennai.

In this blog post, I am sharing the special coconut milk chicken biryani recipe. This is a Kerala-style recipe other than this there are many varieties of biryani some of them are Chettinad chicken biryani, Ambur chicken biryani, Thalappakatti biryani, Hyderabad biryani, Mughalai chicken biryani, etc.

Try out other special recipes:

• Mutton biryani recipe
• Chicken soup recipe
• Chicken Roast recipe
• Chicken Manchurian recipe

Ingredients required for Coconut Milk Chicken Biryani Recipe:

• Biryani Rice(basmati rice)- 1 cup
• Chicken(Medium Sized)- 250 grams
• Thick Coconut Milk(Thengai Paal)- 1 cup
• Ginger(Inji)- 3 inches
• Garlic(Poondu)- 1 full
• Cinnamon(Pattai)- 1 inch size
• Cloves(Krambu)- 5 pieces
• Coriander leaves(Kothamalli Ilai)- As required
• Mint leaves(Pudina)- for flavoring
• Green Chilies(Pachai Milagai)- 6
• Biryani Masala or Garam masala(Vasanai Masala)- 2 tablespoons
• Turmeric Powder(Manjal Thool)- half tablespoon
• Cardamom(Elakai)- 6 pieces
• Fennel Seeds(Sombu)- One tablespoon
• Bay leaf(Birnji Ilai)- one
• Oil(Ennai)- As required
• Ghee(Nei)- As required
• Water(Thanneer)- 8 cups

Coconut milk Chicken Biryani Recipe Cooking Method:

1. Clean the basmati rice with water, soak it in water for 10 minutes, and drain the water.
2. In a pressure cooker, add chopped chicken pieces, turmeric powder, salt, and 8 cups of water. Let it cook for 3 cooker whistle
3. Heat an equal amount of oil, ghee in a pan and add bay leaves, fennel seeds, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom and saute it well.
4. Then add chopped onions, sliced green chilies, ginger garlic paste, mint leaves and saute them well 
5. Then add turmeric powder, biryani masala to the onion, and saute till the raw smell of onion goes off.
6. Then add the cooked chicken to the masala mixture, soaked basmati rice, and lightly saute for 2 minutes.
7. Now in the pressure cooker add the chicken cooked water and coconut milk.
8. Let it boil to become half the quantity and add the rice chicken mixture, salt to it.
9. Cover it with a lid a cook it for 10 minutes on a low flame. After this make a dum for 15 minutes.
10. Now delicious chicken biryani is ready, serve it with some curd raita.