Easy Nasi Briyani, Nasi Briani Recipe

Version 1

Here's a quick tutorial on how to cook up an all time favourite Nasi Briani using an electric rice cooker! The below Nasi Briyani recipe feed 6-8 persons.

Recipe for Nasi Briyani

Ingredients needed:

• 4 cups bismati rice
• 4 tomatoes chopped
• 4 medium potatoes
• 5 medium sized red onions
• 4 cloves of garlic minced
• 2 stems of ginger sliced in thick slices to be removed later or grated finely to be incorporated
• 200ml plain yoghurt
• 1 chicken chopped into sections
• 1 packet of briyani spice mix

Version 2
Ingredients needed

• 1kg basmati rice, soaked for 30 minutes and drained
• 2-3 tsp ghee/butter
• 1 star anise
• 2 sticks cinnamon
• 4 cardamoms
• 2 stalks lemongrass, bruised
• 5 pandan leaves, tear the middle and tie into a knot
• 1/4 cup yoghurt
• 3 cups evaporated milk
• 3 cups water
• salt
• some saffron or use colouring
• some toasted almond slivers or cashew nuts + raisins fried in ghee/butter for garnishing

Method

• Heat ghee, fry the spices till fragrant
• Add the rice and stir fry for about 2 minutes
• Transfer everything to the rice cooker
• Add lemongrass, yoghurt, water, evaporated milk, salt and pandan leaves and stir the mixture
• Switch on rice cooker and cook
• Once cooked, sprinkle saffron or colouring to the rice and mix gently
• Sprinkle toasted nuts and fried raisins and serve

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