Instant Pot Chicken Biryani
A super delicious, fragrant and yummy Chicken BIRYANI recipe. This recipe is a very good option to make for weekday dinners as it has minimum preparation time.
Equipment
- Instant Pot - Electric Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 2 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste Peel and grind the garlic and ginger into a fine paste.
- 250 Grams Chicken Cleaned and washed several times
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil Use any Vegetable oil
- 1/2 tsp Whole Spices Cinnamon Bark, cloves and a bay leaf
- 1 Large Onions Sliced
- 1 Small Tomato Cut into pieces
- 3 Whole Green Chili No need to cut or slit.
- 4-5 Sprigs Coriander leaves Cleaned and chopped
- 4-5 Sprigs Fresh Mint Leaves Cleaned and chopped
- 1/2 Lemon Juiced
- 1 tbsp Thick Yogurt
- 1 1/2 tsp Salt Adjust as needed
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 1/4 tsp Red Chilli Powder
- 1 1/4 Cups Basmati Rice
- 2 Cups Water
Instructions
- Switch On your instant pot, and set SAUTE mode.
- Add oil, whole spices and wait until they heat up.
- Add few slices of onion and add the ginger garlic paste. Saute well.
- Once the ginger garlic paste is cooked, slightly browned add the rest of the onions, tomato, green chilli, and all the cleaned chicken. Cook for a few minutes, say 3-5 minutes.
- Add the chopped mint and coriander leaves. Saute for half a minute.
- Add the salt, turmeric and red chilli powder. Mix well.
- Add the lemon juice and yogurt. Mix well.
- Add the water.
- Cancel the saute mode and close the instant pot. Secure the pressure valve and set pressure cook 10 minutes.
- Once cooked, do a quick release and add the washed basmati rice.
- Close the instant pot and set pressure cook 3-4 minutes. Basmati rice cooks real fast.
- Let the steam release naturally.
- Open the lid after venting the pressure completely and give the rice a quick mix.
- Server hot with raita
Notes
- Use any rice you have – For 1 cup rice you will need 2 cups of water in general. If using basmati rice, for 1 cup rice add only 1 1/2 cups of water.
- Adjust time for different types of rice - regular 12 minutes will work for regular rice. Basmati rice cooks fast.
- Use the same recipe for vegetables or prawn biryani.
- Follow the instant pot method and guidelines properly.
- Serve hot although the biryani will stay warm for a long time in the instant pot