Onion Bhajis and Chicken Biryani Recipe Reviews
Hi, Ray here again.
I decided to cook two of the simpler recipes from the website today. Time for onion bhajis and chicken biryani from the Curry Focus recipe collection.
I already had most of the ingredients in the kitchen and only had to buy the chicken, yoghurt and chickpea flour. I couldn’t find any chickpea flour in my local Indian stores so substituted pea flour.
I made up the paste and marinated the chicken in it for an hour (the recipe said only 30 minutes but I thought the extra time would be worthwhile).
Whilst the chicken was marinating, I cooked the onions for the bharjis and made the pea flour mix ready for frying.
I fried the onion rings for the bryani and put them into a preheated low oven to keep them warm.
Then I fried up the spices for the biryani and then added the chicken. I stir-fried for 2 minutes then added the water and rice. The frying pan was very full.
I heated up the bhaji frying oil whilst the chicken was cooking and started cooking half of the bhajis once the oil was hot enough. One of the bhajis broke up into pieces but it didn’t matter. I put the bhajis onto a plate and put them into the oven when they were cooked. Then I cooked the remaining bhajis. As before, one of the bhajis broke up whilst frying.
I kept an eye on the chicken biryani whilst cooking the bhajis.
When everything was nearly ready, I grabbed some cilantro leaves and chopped them up.
I served up the biryani with some bhajis on the side and garnished with some cilantro.
The dinner guests were very pleased with my efforts. The biryani had a lovely, delicate taste (not too spicy) and was cooked to perfection. The bhaji was yummy.
The meal rated a good 7 out of 10.
I would definitely recommend that you try this meal.
