Chicken Biryani for a Crowd

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2005

Chicken biryani is a complicated (and often greasy) "gourmet" Indian dish. Chicken and rice is a simple, but unremarkable, American one-pot meal. Could we find a happy medium?

SERVES 8

TIME 2¾ hours

Chicken Biryani for a Crowd

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The best chicken biryani recipes place long-grain basmati at center stage, enriching it with butter, saffron, and a variety of fresh herbs and pungent spices. For our biryani recipe, we browned chicken thighs, then removed the skin before l...

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