Chicken Biryani

Ingredients

For Gravy

• 1 fine chopped onion
• 5 garlic cloves
• 1 big piece of ginger
• 1 tspn cloves
• 1 tspn pepper
• 1 tspn chilli powder
• 1/2 tspn tumeric
• 1 tbsp garam masala
• 1 tbsp tomato paste
• 2 cup curd
• 1 pound chicken
• 1 tbsp salt

For Rice

• 1 tspn ghee
• 5 tamal patra
• 5 cloves
• 5 peppers
• 1 tspn salt
• 2 cups rice
• 2 cups hot water

For Biryani

• Color
• 1 julienne cut onion fried well

Method

Put rice in water and keep soaked for atleast an hour

Put ghee in a vessel and add tamal patra, peppers, cloves. 

Add rice and fry well. Add water and salt to half cook the rice

Spread the rice on plates to cool

Add color to half the rice

Fry onion, garlic & ginger, cloves, pepper

Once brown, add tomato and fry

To this mix add chilli powder, tumeric & garam masala

Add the chicken pieces and mix well till chicken slightly cooked

Add curd and let cook for sometime

Add water to required consistency and let simmer for 30 mins.

Ensure chicken is tender and cooked well

Line a vessel well with oil

put a later of rice

one layer of chicken gravy and pieces

one layer of fried onions

one layer of colored rice

Keep adding these layers till rice is finished.

Method 1: Put the bakeware in oven for 20 mins @ temp of 400 deg F
Method 2: Seal the vessel with wheat flour. Put hot water in a pan. Place the vessel in the pan and keep for about 20 mins