Chicken: Wash and clean chicken. Then marinade it with salt, curd, ginger garlic paste, chilli powder, alu bukhara and garam.masala for 30 mins. Heat oil in a kadhai and fry the sliced onions till golden then add the marinated chicken and cook on high flame for 3 mins. The add 1/2cup water, cover the lid and cook on slow flame till the chicken is tender and dry. Keep aside.

Potato: wash and clean potato and cut into half. Apply saffron colour. Heat oil in a separate kadhai and then add the potatoes, fry on high flame for 2 -3mins then add curd, salt and chilli powder and mix, add 1 cup water and cover lid and cook on slow flame till the potatoes are tender and dry. Keep aside.

Rice: wash and soak rice for 1 hour. Then boil enough water in a pot and add salt, green cardamom, cloves, peppercorn and cinnamon. Then add soaked rice and cook 80% and drain away the excess water. Keep aside. Divide into 2 equal portions.

Assembling: in a big pot to make khichda add 1 portion of the rice and spread nicely to make the 1st layer. Then add the chicken,potato and chana dal to make another layer. Drizzle some kewra water and sprinkle some garam masala on it, add a little fried onions. Put another layer of rice. Drizzle some hot ghee, then drizzle some kewra water and essence, then drizzle the kesar milk on top, add a pinch of zafarni rang here and there, then sprinkle some garam masala and lastly add the fried onions.

Cover the pot with a heavy lid and cover the entire lid with a wet cloth from all sides to seal (or u can use ata dough also). Keep on dum for 20 mins.