Chicken Masala Biryani

Ingredients (32)

• 2 cups Basmati Rice (see note 1)≈ 370 g
• 3 small pieces cinnamon sticks≈ 9 g
• 4 clovesn/a
• 6 elachie podsn/a
• saltn/a
• 1.5 kg chicken (I used breasts, thighs and drumsticks)1500 g
• 1/2 cup yogurt≈ 123 g
• 3 roma tomatoes (blanched and blended)≈ 360 g
• 100 gram tomato paste100 g
• 1 tbsp ginger/garlic paste≈ 16 g
• 2 tbsp masala (see note 2)≈ 15 g
• 2 tbsp kashmiri chili powder≈ 16 g
• 3 tspn ground cumin≈ 6 g
• 4 tspn ground coriander≈ 1.3 g
• 1 tspn turmeric≈ 3 g
• 1 tspn ground soomph/fennel≈ 2.1 g
• 1/2 tspn ground elachie/cardamom≈ 1 g
• 1 tbsp garam masala≈ 8 g
• few drops oiln/a
• 100 gram butter (see note 4)100 g
• 3 pieces cinnamon sticks, abut 4cm each≈ 9 g
• 2 star aniseed≈ 2 g
• 3 bay leaf≈ 0.6 g
• 2 black elachie/cardamom≈ 0.5 g
• 2 large onion (finely sliced)≈ 300 g
• handful of mint leavesn/a
• 8 sprigs thymen/a
• 2 green chillies (slit in halves)n/a
• 2 large potatoes (each cut into 8 cubes)≈ 600 g
• 1 cup dry brown lentils (cooked)≈ 237 g
• 1/2 cup oil (required only if frying onion. See note 3)≈ 109 g
• 1/4 tspn saffron mixed with 3 tbsp warm water ((optional))≈ 0.2 g

uncooked rice 370 gin all 3888 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

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

• Meat, fish or egg405% · 98th percentile · median 133%
• Yogurt33% · 57th percentile · median 29%
• Onions81% · 68th percentile · median 59%
• Ghee or oil57% · 99th percentile · median 14%
• Mint and coriander0.4% · 46th percentile · median 0.7%
• Spices20% · 100th percentile · median 4.6%
• Potatoes162% · 96th percentile · median 0%
• Salt0% · 27th percentile · median 0%