{"id":435,"date":"2017-01-26T19:21:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twosnails.uk\/wp\/?p=435"},"modified":"2017-01-26T19:21:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:21:21","slug":"gousto-easy-chicken-biriyani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twosnails.uk\/wp\/2017\/01\/gousto-easy-chicken-biriyani\/","title":{"rendered":"Gousto: Easy Chicken Biriyani"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Date made: 26\/01\/2017<\/li>\n<li>Used:&nbsp;induction hob<\/li>\n<li>I added: a handful of cashew nuts, then served with Geeta&#8217;s Mango Chutney and Chapatis on the side<\/li>\n<li>\u2665&nbsp;\u2665&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sorry, no photographs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kit delivered yesterday and this dish was marked &nbsp;as use by 29th January but the beans were already beginning to rot and I threw several mushy and slimy ones out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not a good start<\/p>\n<p>Not really a Biriyani as I know it, more of a curry-flavoured risotto &#8211; &nbsp;but it was rated at 15 minutes cooking time so I expect it is aimed at people who don&#8217;t really want to cook rather than enthusiastic cooks who love to eat. No garlic or ginger involved, nor any esoteric spices &#8211; just onion and &nbsp;a packet of curry powder.<\/p>\n<p>There was plenty to eat and I struggled to finish even without eating much chapati, which the dog enjoyed on my behalf.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I liked:<\/strong> that the French beans remained <em>al dente<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>I disliked:<\/strong> lack of chilli heat, unsubtle flavour, stickiness\/stodgy rice<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong><em>&nbsp;quick and easy but dull and lacking in flavour.<\/em> Would not buy this again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date made: 26\/01\/2017 Used:&nbsp;induction hob I added: a handful of cashew nuts, then served with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[157,93],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snail-food","tag-easy-chicken-biriyani","tag-gousto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7P2WY-71","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twosnails.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twosnails.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twosnails.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twosnails.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twosnails.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twosnails.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/twosnails.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twosnails.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twosnails.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twosnails.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}