How To Make Chicken Biryani

By Aanchal Mathur

The flavours of succulent chicken dunked in a heap of aromatic long-grained rice hits different. Here is a recipe you can bookmark.  

Ingredients

1.5 kg chicken 1 kg ric 6 onions 2 tomatoes 2 tbsp ginger garlic paste 1 cup curd 3 potatoes 1/4 tsp saffron

Ingredients

1 tsp tandoori masala 2 tbsp red chilli powder 1 tbsp garam masala powder Salt as required Handful of mint and  coriander leaves (chopped) Oil as required Whole spices as required

Marinate chicken in curd, ginger garlic paste, red chilli powder, salt, garam masala powder, tandoori masala for 3-4 hours. Give it coal dhungar 1/2 hour before cooking. 

Boil rice with salt, whole spices & oil. Fry onions (birista) and keep aside. 

In a pan heat oil add whole spices. Add marinated chicken. Cook for some time.

Add potatoes, fried onions and chopped tomatoes. Cook till chicken is 3/4th cooked.

Check the seasoning. Now sprinkle coriander leaves, mint leaves, 1-2 slit green chillies. Add rice.

Over rice sprinkle fried onions, coriander leaves, saffron, orange color and few spoons of oil.

Cover it with lid tightly. Seal it using a cloth. Let it cook on dum for 20 minutes. 

To serve remove rice in a different dish & masala in different. Serve with raita of your choice.