Thai
Khao Mok Kai (Thai Chicken Biryani)
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Rub the chicken with half the turmeric and a little of the salt, then brown it in the ghee in a heavy pot; remove and set aside.
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Fry the ginger, garlic, cinnamon, cardamom and cumin in the remaining fat until fragrant.
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Stir in the rice and remaining turmeric and toast 1 minute.
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Return the chicken to the pot, add water to just cover the rice, and bring to a boil.
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Cover tightly and cook on low, mostly unattended, until the rice is tender and the chicken is cooked through, about 25 minutes.
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Let rest covered 10 minutes before fluffing. Mild, yellow with turmeric, and the honest home dish for a halal household.
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Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Khao Mok Kai (Thai Chicken Biryani), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Khao Mok Kai (Thai Chicken Biryani) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Drunken Noodles with Chicken |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 620 kcal
- Protein
- 31 g
- Carbs
- 52 g
- Fat
- 32 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 680 mg
- Saturated fat
- 12 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Khao Mok Kai (Thai Chicken Biryani) takes about 70 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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