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Easy chicken rice with spices

This is not the Chinese chicken rice you find everywhere. This chicken cooked with rice like dum biryani. This is not a biryani but will taste as good.

Recipe summary

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Easy chicken rice with spices

Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time :25 minutes

Serves: 4 - 6

1. Cut 300 grams chicken breast into small bite size pieces. Put the chicken pieces in a medium sized bowl.

2. Add ½ teaspoon turmeric powder, 1 teaspoon chili powder, ½ teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon sesame seed oil, Mix the ingredients well so that the chicken will be evenly coated by the marinades, Set it aside for 20 minutes.

Easy chicken rice with spices

3. Cut one medium sized potato into bite size pieces.

4. In a large saucepan heat the 2 tablespoon of vegetable oil. (I used a non-stick wok.)

5. Add 1 dry red chili, 1 small cinnamon stick (4“) broken, 5 cloves, 1 star anise and 3 cardamom pods and fry for 30 seconds.

6. Add 1 pandan leaf cut into small pieces, 3 pieces (4”) lemon grass and fry for 30 seconds

7. Add 10 curry leaves followed by 1 tsp fennel seeds, ½ teaspoon fenugreek seeds and 1 tsp cumin seeds and fry for 30 seconds.

8. Add 90 grams onion coarsely chopped and fry for 5 minutes.

9. Add 1 green chilli chopped fine, followed by potato and fry for 1 minute.

Ingredients

10. Add marinated chicken and fry for two minutes.

11. Add 4 cloves garlic minced and ½ inch ginger minced. Mix well.

Spices

12. Add 1 tablespoon biryani powder, ½  teaspoon garam masala powder, ½  teaspoon cinnamon powder, 1 teaspoon curry powder, ½ teaspoon pepper powder and ¼  teaspoon turmeric powder .Mix well and fry for 5 minutes.

13. Add 3 cups washed long grain rice to the rice cooker, pour 5½ cups water, 1 table spoon butter or ghee and ½  cup coconut milk. If you add more coconut milk it will be tastier. Ratio can be 5:1.

14. At this point I transferred the contents of the wok to a rice cooker to complete the cooking of the rice. The rice will be ready in 25 minutes.

Easy chicken rice with spices is ready.

Recipe follows in detail with pictures.

Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time :25 minutes
Serves: 4 - 6

Ingredients
Main
300 grams chicken breast cut into small bite size pieces
3 cups long grain rice
Others
90 grams onion chopped coarsely
1 green chilli chopped fine
1 dry red chili whole
4 cloves garlic minced
1/2 inch ginger minced
1 medium sized potato cut into small pieces
10 curry leaves
1 pandan leaf cut into small pieces
3 pieces (4”) lemon grass

Ingredients for Easy chicken rice with spices

Spices
1 small cinnamon stick (4“) broken
5 cloves
1 star anise
3 cardamom pods
1 dry red chili whole

1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 teaspoon fennel seeds
½ teaspoon fenugreek seeds

1 tablespoon biryani powder
½ teaspoon garam masala powder
1 tea spoon curry powder
½ teaspoon pepper powder
½ tea spoon cinnamon powder(optional)
1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder

2 tablespoon of vegetable oil
1 table spoon butter or ghee

Spices for Easy chicken rice with spices

Marinade for chicken

½ teaspoon turmeric powder
1 teaspoon chili powder
½ teaspoon pepper powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sesame seed oil

Preparation
Marinate the chicken with marinades shown above. Add turmeric powder, chili powder, salt and sesame oil, Mix the ingredients well so that the chicken will be evenly coated by the marinades, Set it aside for 20 minutes.

Cut the potato into bite size pieces.

Potato

Method
In a large saucepan heat the vegetable oil (sesame oil). (I used a non-stick wok.)
Add dry chili, cinnamon, cloves, 1 star anise
and cardamom and fry for 30 seconds.
Add pandan leaves, lemon grass and fry 30 seconds

Frying pandan leaf,lemon grass, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves

Add curry leaves followed by fennel seeds, fenugreek seeds and cumin seeds and fry for 30 seconds.

Curry leaves followed by fennel seeds and cumin seeds

Curry leaves followed by fennel seeds, fenugreek seeds and cumin seeds

Add onion and fry for 5 minutes.

Adding onion

Add green chili, followed by potato and fry for 1 minute.

Adding green chili, followed by potato

Add marinated chicken and fry for two minutes

Adding marinated chicken

Add ginger garlic paste and mix well.

Adding ginger garlic paste

Add biryani powder, garam masala powder, cinnamon powder, curry powder,
pepper powder and turmeric powder.

Adding all the spice powders to the stir fried chicken mixture for the easy chicken rice.

Mix well and fry for 5 minutes.

Mixed chicken ready to be added to rice

Add 3 cups washed long grain rice to the rice cooker, pour 5 and ½ cups water, 1 table spoon butter or ghee and ½ cup coconut milk. If you add more coconut milk it will be tastier. Ratio can be 5:1.
At this point I transferred the contents of the wok to a rice cooker and complete the cooking of the rice.