Chicken Biryani

A very solid biryani recipe. The chicken is tender and flavourful, and the rice is well spiced! I would say this is "restaurant quality" but will never compete with your absolute favorite biryani. It's one of those recipes that I'll make regularly and would impress friends, but doesn't fully overtake the need to go to a good local restaurant. Definitely better than a lot of "just okay" restaurants though. It's a great staple recipe to have biryani in your rotation! I recommend watching the video she has with the recipe to get a feel for things like how intensely your water should be boiling, since many of the times rely on these things. I'd also pay attention to your heat source, as I overdid my chicken a bit and got slightly burned skin. As a note, it will take a large quantity of spices, so even if you think you have all the spices in your pantry, it might be worth double checking the amounts.

Delicious flavours but hardly any spicy heat!

A wee bit bland so I would increase the spices next time. Otherwise a good biryani.

The four chilis were too many! It was so spicy. We like spice but this was WAY too spicy. Like sweating through dinner spicy. We added yogurt to cool it down.

Good. Used a soy yoghurt substitute but wasn't liquidy enough, maybe try another yoghurt sub next time.

Combined two recipes to get a winner

it takes some time. i used a teabag for the spices and boneless chicken thighs