Chicken Biryani

Name: Chicken Biryani
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 500 gm chicken pieces; 5 medium onion cut in thin slices; 2 tbsp ginger garlic paste; 1 cup thick curd; 3 green chillies slitted; as needed oil to fry onion; 2-3 tbsp deshi ghee; 1 cup chopped coriander; 1/4 cup mint leaves; 1 tbsp each coriander powder and red chilli powder; 1/2 tsp turmeric; 1 tbsp biryani masala; 1 tbsp oil; 1 1/2 tsp garam masala powder; 1 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder; 2 cups basmati or biryani rice washed and soaked in water; 2 tomatoes chopped; 2-3 drop orange food colour; few drops biryani essence or keora water; to taste salt

Vanchita Shukla @cook_9366631

New Delhi

Chicken Biryani

Vanchita Shukla @cook_9366631

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Ingredients

500 gmchicken pieces
5medium onion cut in thin slices
2 tbspginger garlic paste
1 cupthick curd
3green chillies slitted
as needed oil to fry onion
2-3 tbspdeshi ghee
1 cupchopped coriander
1/4 cupmint leaves
1 tbspeach coriander powder and red chilli powder
1/2 tspturmeric
1 tbspbiryani masala
1 tbspoil
1 1/2 tspgaram masala powder
1 tbspkashmiri red chilli powder
2 cupsbasmati or biryani rice washed and soaked in water
2tomatoes chopped
2-3 droporange food colour
few drops biryani essence or keora water
to tastesalt

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Steps

1

Wash and clean chicken.Heat sufficient oil and fry slices of 4 onions till golden brown.Take out and keep in a tissue paper
2

In a large bowl add curd ginger garlic paste coriander powder,chilli powder,garam masala powder biryani masala half of the coriander, mint, kashmiri chilli powder & oil mix nicely add chicken pieces coat masala well,cover the bowl and marinate for 1 hour in refrigirator
3

In a pot boil 6 -7 cups water add 3 cloves, 1 small pc cinnamon,3 green cardamoms, 1 black cardamom, 6 black pepper corns,1 star anis,2 bay leaves and salt
4

Put drained rice let it cook 75 %
5

Strain the water and keep the rice in a thali take out all whole spices, keep aside
6

Heat 3 tbsp each deshi ghee and oil in a heavy bottomed deg, add one sliced onion fry till brown add chopped tomatoes and salt,cook stirring occasionally
7

Add marinated chicken and cook till chicken is 80% done
8

Take out the chicken in a plate spoon out the excess oil(which is oozed out) in a bowl and keep aside
9

Now put some chicken in the bottom of a pot cover with rice sprinkle some coriander and mint leaves, fried onions, some oil which was taken out in the bowl 1 tsp deshi ghee
10

On the layer of rice keep some chicken pieces with masala and again cover the same with remaining rice brown onion coriander and mint leaves oil and ghee sprinke few drops of orange food colour
11

Cover the pot with a foil then close the lid and keep a tawa on heat, put the biryani pot on the tawa and cook on very slow flame for 15 minutes, add keora water or biryani essence in the biryani