Chicken Biryani.
You can cook Chicken Biryani using 15 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Chicken Biryani
- It's 1 kg of chicken with bone.
- Prepare 1 kg of Basmati rice.
- Prepare 3 of tomatoes chopped.
- You need 3 of onions chopped.
- Prepare 3 of more onions thinly sliced and fried(beresta).
- Prepare 2 tbsp of ginger-garlic paste.
- Prepare 1 cup of yogurt.
- Prepare of Cooking oil as required.
- It's 1 handful of Mint leaves.
- You need 1 tbsp of ghee.
- It's 1 tbsp of lemon juice.
- You need 2 tbsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 packet of Biryani masala (any good brand).
- It's of Few saffron strands soaked in 2 tbsp of warm milk.
- You need 2 drop of Biryani essence (optional).
Chicken Biryani instructions
- Clean and wash chicken. Make medium sized pieces..
- Cook the chicken just as regular chicken bhuna. Follow the instructions written on the Biryani masala packet..
- Be sure not to make the gravy dry. Some amount of gravy should be there..
- Boil the rice(soaked for 1 hour) with sufficient water. Add salt and lemon juice..
- When the rice is 70% done, drain the entire rice in a colander carefully..
- In a heavy bottomed broad vessel, arrange the chicken with gravy in the base..
- Now make a layer with fried onions and mint leaves..
- Then put half of the rice over the fried onion layer..
- Sprinkle some saffron-milk mixture, ghee, fried onions, mint leaves and 1 drop of essence..
- Arrange the remaining rice over it. Sprinkle same ingredients as before..Like saffron, ghee, fried onions,mint leaves and essence..
- Cover the vessel with aluminium foil and put on the lid tightly. Do the process as soon as possible..
- Put the vessel in high flame for 5 minutes..
- Then reduce the flame and keep on dum or steam for 1/2 an hour..
- You can keep a tawa or skillet at the bottom of the vessel to save the bottom from burning..
- After 1/2 an hour remove the seal and stir very gently and carefully to mix together everything..
- Serve hot with your choice of raita..