Chicken and yellow rice recipe prepared with turmeric is the best one pot dinner idea for families. Long, fluffy, nonadherent, turmeric rice and chicken with soft and tender texture make a perfect tantalizing taste. Don't skip this colorful, tempting, and appetizing rice recipe to include in your menu.
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About Turmeric Yellow Rice
Turmeric rice is the fragrant, colorful and delectable rice dish prepared with turmeric powder. Many people knows it as yellow rice. Here I am making easy chicken and yellow rice recipe with turmeric that anybody can easily make at home on stovetop.
Why Turmeric Rice and Chicken?
Turmeric rice makes a best combination with chicken. You can also make with mutton/lamb or with beef but the taste of chicken broth adds a sticky texture with rice that makes it distinguished among other rice recipes.
Whenever I make this recipe, I try to simmer the chicken for long time to extract all the juices from bones that adds as it adds a perfect taste in rice.
As it's a famous recipe and different region of the world makes it in their own way according to their taste but the signature yellow color of rice makes it unique. Some people also substitute turmeric with saffron (zafran) to get the yellow color.
It's an American recipe famous as Arroz con Pollo mostly people from Spain and Latin America used to make this. Today, I prepared with some added spices that make the chicken and rice so delicious and flavorful. All the spices are easily available in every house pantry so you can easily prepare for dinner or lunch.
In South Asia, especially India and Pakistan the same recipe is famous as Chicken Tahari. More or less the recipes are the same but there are a few variations that make a little change in taste.
Here is the Pakistani and Indian version of turmeric yellow rice with chicken.
In this recipe, first, prepare homemade spice powder by combining spices and then marinating chicken pieces. Pan-fried the marinated chicken to seal the juices inside as it will make the chicken so tasty while cooking with rice. Then cooked the chicken with soaked rice.
Chicken with yellow rice is a simple, easy, and quick recipe that will spread a tempting aroma in your kitchen to crave. For me, it's a family favorite! and frequently makes it on weekend dinner.
Soft and tender chicken cooked with rice on the stovetop with the flavor of turmeric is so aromatic, colorful, and tempting to eat. Give it a try! and you will surely love it!
Ingredients
The chicken and yellow rice recipe can easily prepare with a handful of spices. Here are some main ingredients listed that you can easily find in your pantry.
Chicken with Bones: I personally love to make this recipe with chicken thighs or other parts of chicken with bones. why? because the stock simmer with bones makes a perfect flavor with rice. You can also make it with boneless chicken or breasts.
Basmati Rice: I prefer to use Pakistani basmati rice because it's long, grainy, aromatic, and delicious in taste. Alternatively, you can use jasmine rice.
Homemade Spice Powder: It's a combination of Paprika + Coriander Powder + Garlic Powder + Garam masala poser + Turmeric powder + Cumin powder + Salt
Oil, Grated Garlic, Salt, Turmeric Powder: Used oil to cook chicken and rice, sauteed grated garlic to fry soaked rice, and turmeric powder added in rice to create a signature yellow color of rice.
How To Make Chicken and Yellow Rice
Preparation of homemade spice powder: In a bowl, add paprika, coriander powder, garlic powder, garam masala, turmeric powder, cumin powder, and salt. Give it a good mix.
Marinate Chicken: Clean and wash the chicken pieces and properly coat them with spice powder. Pour freshly squeezed lemon juice into the marination.
Fried Chicken: In a pan, pour oil and pan fry the chicken from both sides until it turned to golden brown color. It will take 7 to 8 minutes to properly fry the chicken. After that, take out the chicken and keep it on the side.
Rice Preparation: Soak the rice before 10 minutes of cooking. In the same pan, saute garlic and add turmeric powder. Now add the soaked rice and give it a gentle mix. Add water and salt and mix again with a gentle hand. Place the fried chicken over the rice. Now cover and cook the rice initially on high heat for 10 minutes. Then turn the heat to low to prepare chicken and rice on steam.
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Easy Tips
- Always soak the rice before cooking as it will give you a more tender rice combination with chicken.
- Frying chicken on high heat will seal the pores so the juices will remain intact and you will get soft, tender and juicy chicken with fluffy yellow rice.
- Saffron and turmeric is normally used to add the yellow color in rice. Avoid to use yellow food color.
- Never cook the rice for too long. 30 minutes soaked basmati rice cooking time is 20 to 25 minutes.
- Never run the spoon from middle after rice cooking otherwise the rice will break.
Serving Suggestions
Chicken with yellow rice is ideal to serve on both dinner and lunch. It's more or less is a complete meal in a form of delicious chicken and rice but you can add several addons to serve this recipe.
I personally like to serve with different Salad options: Chickpea salad and Simple Veg salad are the best.
Green chutney/sauce will add more flavor. If you like then you can simply serve fresh yogurt along with it.
Kababs/Kaboobs are good to add value to this recipe.
Roasted veggies also make the best combination.
Don't forget to serve tea after eating carbs. Here I love to serve Orange peel tea or lemon tea which is good in taste and also helps to digest food.
Q & A
As the Yellow rice is cooked with the main flavor of turmeric so it's incredibly nutritious and has several health benefits. Then the selection of rice is more important! white rice is normally considered processed rice which is less healthy as compared to brown rice. White rice in the USA contains folate that you can use to make this recipe.
The traditional way is to make yellow rice is to use turmeric. In the middle easter and South Asian region, people also use saffron milk to create yellow color. Some chefs use edible yellow food colors to cook yellow rice.
To make fluffy rice, It's important to soak the rice before 30 minutes of cooking. Wisely monitor the water requirements to cook rice. If there is more then rice will be mushy in texture and if the water is less then the rice will be hard. Initially cook the rice on high heat and as the rice starts to boil then cook it for 5 minutes then turn the heat to medium/low to cook the rest of the rice on steam.
The cooking method will vary if you are cooking in a pressure cooker, crockpot, or onepot or in instant pot.
If the rice is not mushy in texture and still breaking then change the method to take out the rice. I prefer to gently take it out from the pan sides. Avoid taking out rice from the middle.
Give 10 minutes time to take out rice right after cooking. The rice grain will be settled in 10 to 15 minutes. Right after steaming the rice is extremely soft so it can easily break.
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Chicken and Yellow Rice Recipe (Turmeric Rice and Chicken)
Ingredients
- 500 g Chicken
- 2 cups Rice
- 1 tablespoon Oil
- 1 teaspoon Grated Garlic
- ⅓ teaspoon Turmeric
- 1 tablespoon Freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Homemade Spice Powder:
- 1 teaspoon Paprika
- 1 teaspoon Coriander Powder
- ½ teaspoon Garlic Powder
- ½ teaspoon Garam masala powder
- ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
- ½ teaspoon cumin powder
- ½ teaspoon Salt
Instructions
- In a bowl, add paprika, coriander powder, garam masala, garlic powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder and salt.
- Mix well to combine the spices.
- Sprinkle the sesaoining spices over chicken. Rub the spices with hand to give it a good coat.
- In the meanwhile, soak the rice for 30 minutes.
- Now in a heated pan, pour oil and fry the chicken pieces until turned to golden in color.
- As the chicken turned to golden, take it out!.
- In same oil, add grated garlic and saute for few seconds.
- Add turmeric powder and give it a quick stir.
- Now add soaked rice and mix well in pan.
- Add 2 cups of water and gently mix well.
- Add the fried chicken at the top of rice.
- Now cook and cover the rice for 20 minutes. Initially cook on high heat for 5 to 6 minutes. Then turn the heat to medium/low to cook the rest of the rice on steam.
- After 20 minutes, the rice will be ready to serve!
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Notes
- To get fluffy and soft rice, it's recommended to soak the rice before 30 minutes of cooking.
- Pan-fried chicken is tastier and creates a soft and juicy texture with rice. Fry chicken for at least 3 to 4 minutes from each side to seal the pores.
- Saffron and turmeric are normally used to add a yellow color to the rice. Avoid using yellow food color.
- Never cook the rice for too long. 30 minutes soaked basmati rice cooking time is 20 to 25 minutes.
- Always take out rice from the sides. Never run the spoon from the middle after rice cooking otherwise the rice will break.
- Gently run the spoon from the sides to the middle to mix all rice. In this way, the rice will not clutter.
Hinz
Simple, quick and easy Chicken with yellow rice recipe on stovetop using pan/skillet. Must give it a try! you will love the taste. Best to serve on dinner!
Cat
Came out amazing! Thank you 🙏🏼