Making chicken Beryani consists of 5 steps:

Step1: To prepare Chicken marinade,mix all marinade ingredients until well combined. Then add in chicken pieces, make sure all chicken pieces are well coated. Cover and leave for an hour. Then grill in the oven until chicken is well done.

Step 2: To prepare Chicken mix,in a pan fry onion slices with vegetable oil. Use the blender to mix fresh ginger, fresh coriander and garlic. Add them to the onions while frying then add raisins, tomato slices, yogurt, chicken masala and salt.

Finally add the grilled chicken pieces, mix and cover. Keep on low heat until the mixture is well cooked. Then remove from heat and keep aside.

Step 3: To prepare rice mix, wash and drain rice

Fry onion, cardamom, cinnamon sticks and cloves with vegetable oil. Then add 3 cups of water to them.

When water starts boiling add the chicken broth cube. When it melts add the rice. Cover and keep on low heat for 15 minutes until the rice is well cooked. Remove and set aside.

Step 4: For the decoration, fry onion and keep aside.

Fry cashew nuts and keep aside.

Fry raisins and keep aside.

Combine coriander and mint, and keep aside.

Soak saffron in rose water for 15 minutes and keep aside.

Cut pineapple into medium pieces and keep aside.

Step 5: To serve,pour a layer of rice on the serving plate. Add on top a layer of the chicken mixture. Then scatter the fried cashews, raisins and onion over chicken pieces.

On top sprinkle cut pineapple slices (optional), coriander and mint.

Add another layer of rice on top of all of this. And on top of this rice layer scatter again fried cashews, raisins and onion slices. Sprinkle the diluted saffron water on the Beryani dish.