Recipe: Perfect Chicken Biryani

Chicken Biryani.

You can cook Chicken Biryani using 20 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken Biryani

1. It's 500 gm of chicken pieces.
2. You need 5 of medium onion cut in thin slices.
3. You need 2 tbsp of ginger garlic paste.
4. You need 1 cup of thick curd.
5. You need 3 of green chillies slitted.
6. You need as needed of oil to fry onion.
7. You need 2-3 tbsp of deshi ghee.
8. You need 1 cup of chopped coriander.
9. You need 1/4 cup of mint leaves.
10. It's 1 tbsp of each coriander powder and red chilli powder.
11. Prepare 1/2 tsp of turmeric.
12. You need 1 tbsp of biryani masala.
13. You need 1 tbsp of oil.
14. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of garam masala powder.
15. Prepare 1 tbsp of kashmiri red chilli powder.
16. It's 2 cups of basmati or biryani rice washed and soaked in water.
17. You need 2 of tomatoes chopped.
18. It's 2-3 drop of orange food colour.
19. It's few drops of biryani essence or keora water.
20. Prepare to taste of salt.

Chicken Biryani instructions

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.