Chicken Biryani

Ingredients:

1. Chicken - 1 kg
2. Onion - 3 (sliced)
3. Onion - 1 (sliced and fried in cooking oil till brown) (as shown)
4. Whole garam masala - as shown
5. Curd - 1 cup
6. Lemon juice of 2 lemons
7. Red chilli powder - 3 sps
8. Green chilli - 3 to 4
9. Turmeric powder - 1 sp
10. Ginger and garlic paste - 2 big sps
11. Fresh pudina and coriander leaves paste - 3 to 4 sps
12. Kaju - 5 to 6 (optional)
13. Basmati rice - 1 kg (washed and soaked for 20 mins in water)
14. Cooking oil - ½ cup
15. Ghee - 3 tbsps

 Method:

1. Take the washed chicken in a bowl and marinate with salt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, curd, ginger and garlic paste, lemon juice and coriander and pudina paste.
2. Heat cooking oil in a pa. Add onion, green chilli, kaju and whole garam masala fry for only 2 to 3 mins.
3. Mix the above msasal in hot oil with the marinated chicken and close the lid. Keep it aside for at least 2 hrs.
4. After 2 hrs cook the basmati rice (Half boil). Take a small blow of ganji (i.e,rice water) and add ghee and colour to it.
5. Now transfer this half cooked rice (while it is hot) on top of the marinated chicken immediately.
6. Keep the above chicken and rice bowl on the stove. Make 3 to 4 slight holes in to the rice and pour the ganji mixture in them.Make sure that bowl should be thick.
7. Cook 20 mins in high flame and 15 mins in low flame. Garnish it with golden fried onions and pudina leaves.