How to Make Delicious Chicken Yakhni Pulao 

This Chicken Yakhni Pulao is a very delicious flavorful rice dish known to me. This dish very famous in India. the dish makes you delighted, "YAKHNI" means a light curry or broth which is infused with two or more ingredients rather than meat, and that chicken rice mixed well with that yakhni, so the combination of rice, chicken, and yakhni becomes delicious. 

Cooking time: 1hour

Serving portion: 6 persons

Ingredients :

(For YAKHNI broth)

Chicken curry cut pieces - 1 kg

sliced ginger - 10gm

Garlic cloves - 5 pieces

Onion - 1 big piece cut into 1/4 pieces

Whole Cumin - 1 and a half tbsp

Whole Coriander - 1 and a half tbsp

Whole Fennel seed(sounf/mouri)- 1 and a half tbsp

Bay leaves - 2 pieces

Cardamom - 6 piece

Cinnamon stick - 1 piece big

Cloves - 10 piece

Star anise - 1piece

Black cardamom - 1 piece

Salt - 2tbsp

Water - 10 cup (eg. 100ml per cup)

(For rice) 

Refined oil - 1/2 cup

Butter - 1tbsp

Sliced onion - 1cup

Cardamom - 3 piece

Cloves - 5 piece

Cumin - 1tbsp

bay leaf - 1 piece

Ginger paste - 2tbsp

Garlic paste - 1tbsp

Mace - very small piece 1/2 inch (very small quantity)

Nutmeg - 1/2 tbsp (very small quantity)

Sour curd - 100gm

Sugar - 2tbsp

Green chilli - 5 to 7 pieces

Yakhni broth - 9 cup

Basmati rice - 5cup (eg.1cup= 100gm) so 500gm or rice

Salt - to taste

Whole black pepper - 10 -12 pieces

Ghee - 2tbsp

Onion Barista/fried onion - 4tbsp

Cooking Method :

• Get a large cooking pot, add chicken pieces, sliced ginger, peeled garlic cloves, whole coriander seeds, whole cumin seeds, whole fennel seeds, bay leaves, cut onions, cloves, black cardamom, green cardamom, cinnamon stick, star anise, salt, and water.

  

  Masala Yakhni water along with the chicken for boil

  
  

• Cook whole pot ingredients for 15 minutes at the high flame with lid on.

• Now Cook them for another 25 minutes at the low flame with lid on.

• Now after 25 min later transfer the chicken pieces to a separate bowl and keep aside.

  

  strain out the yakhni chicken pieces

  
  

• And strain out the yakhni broth water into a bowl for later use. And throw away the whole spices of broth, which has no need further use.

  

  strain out the yakhni broth water

  
  
  
  

• Now Take a Kadai, heat oil and butter in it, add onion slices, saute till light brown.

• Now stir cumin, black pepper whole, cardamom, cloves, bay leaf. in brown onions.

• After 30 seconds of a string the whole masala into brown onions, add ginger garlic paste. saute them for 3 minutes more.

  

  adding ginger garlic paste into sauté onions

  
  

• Now add that yakhni chicken pieces which were kept aside.

• Saute yakhni chicken pieces for few minutes and add crushed mace and nutmeg, add beaten sour curd & sugar. Mix well for 1 minute.

  

  Adding beaten sour curd into yakhni chicken

  
  

• Add slit green chilli into the yakhni chicken and put reserved yakhni broth which were kept aside.

  

  yakhni broth adding to the chicken

  
  

• Let it boil for 5 minutes, now add soaked basmati rice in yakhni chicken. Add salt to taste.

• Now at high flame, mix well the rice, chicken, and gravy all together and cook with the lid on until water reduced. cook for at least 15- 20 minutes (how much time to cook it's depending on rice quality).

  

  Adding rice to the yakhni gravy

  
  

• When you understand water fully soaked and rice becomes dry and tender, now turn off the flame finish with Ghee and fried onions.

• Enjoy Your Yakhni chicken pulao with Green salad and Mutton Kosha.

This chicken yakhni pulao recipe is very delicious with mutton kosha, please make at home definitely you will love this recipe I can say. any questions about the recipe please let me know in the comment section below, get the side recipe of mutton kosha clicks here.