Ammu's Chicken Biryani

Chicken

Asma Khan · nigella.com · Serves: 6

Against 319 biryani recipes

More salt than 99% of recipes and fewer spices than 92%.

How it compares

Against the typical pot: the median of 319 biryani recipes, per 100 g of uncooked rice.

More salt than 99% of recipes: 18% of the uncooked rice weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
Fewer spices than 92% of recipes: 1.1% of the uncooked rice weight against the typical recipe's 4.6%, under a third as much.
More meat, fish or egg than 75% of recipes: 200% of the uncooked rice weight against the typical recipe's 133%.
No mint and coriander at all, where 62% of recipes use some (most of those 1 to 3.6% of the uncooked rice weight).

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

200 grams plain flour200 g
500 grams good-quality basmati rice500 g
5 tablespoons salt≈ 90 g
½ teaspoon saffron strands≈ 0.4 g
80 millilitres full fat milk≈ 83 g
8 tablespoons ghee (clarified butter) or vegetable oil (sometimes I mix both and it works really well)≈ 109 g
2 white onions (thinly sliced into half moons)≈ 220 g
1 kilogram skinless chicken thighs on the bone1000 g
3 cloves garlic (crushed)≈ 9 g
5 - 6 centimetres piece fresh ginger (grated)≈ 33 g
2 tablespoons full-fat Greek yogurt≈ 31 g
½ teaspoon chilli powder≈ 1.4 g
2 green cardamom pods≈ 0.5 g
2 clovesn/a
1 centimetre piece of cinnamon sticks≈ 3 g
1 centimetre piece of mace (crushed)n/a
⅛ teaspoon grated nutmeg≈ 0.3 g
¼ teaspoon sugar≈ 1.1 g
juice of ½ lemonn/a

uncooked rice 500 gin all 2281 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of uncooked rice, and where that falls among all 319 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by percentages of the uncooked rice weight: meat, fish or egg, yogurt, onions, ghee or oil, mint and coriander, spices, potatoes, salt.