Chicken Akni
 
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A simple chicken and rice dish, baked in the oven in one dish.
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Recipe type: Easy
Cuisine: Indian / Pakistani
Serves: 6
Ingredients
  • 50 g vegetable oil, plus extra for greasing
  • 350 g basmati rice
  • 700 g boiling water
  • 100 g onions, quartered
  • 25 g fresh root ginger, peeled, and sliced
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 3 dried chillies
  • 4 whole cloves
  • 2 cinnamon sticks
  • 4 cardamom pods
  • 6 black peppercorns
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 500 g chicken thighs boned and diced
  • 150 g ripe tomatoes, quartered
  • 120 g plain yoghurt
  • 2 tsp fine sea salt
  • 1 small handful fresh coriander leaves, chopped, for garnish
Instructions
  1. Grease a large baking dish (approx. 26 cm x 24 cm x 5 cm). Add rice and boiling water to baking dish then put to one side. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 180°C.
  2. Place oil in Thermomix mixing bowl and heat 1 min/Varoma/speed stir.
  3. Add onions, ginger, garlic and chillies then chop 10 sec/speed 5. Scrape down sides of mixing bowl with spatula then, without measuring cup, fry 7 min/Varoma/speed stir.
  4. Add cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, peppercorns and cumin seeds then cook 2 min/Varoma/speed stir.
  5. Add chicken, tomatoes, yoghurt and salt then cook 10 min/100°C//speed 1.
  6. Pour mixture over reserved soaked rice and stir well with spatula.
  7. Cover dish tightly with aluminium foil.
  8. Bake for 1 hour (180°C) until rice and chicken are cooked.
  9. Serve garnished with coriander leaves.
Recipe by Mummy Barrow at https://www.mummybarrow.com/chicken-akni/