Chicken Dum Biryani

Ingredients :-

1. Chicken - 1 pound

2. Basmati Rice - 2 cup

3. Yogurt - 1/2 cup

4. Onion - 1(chopped)

5. Lime Juice - 1/2 of the Lemon

6. Ginger Garlic paste - 1tbsp

7. Green Chilies - 3

8. Red chili Pwd - 1 tsp or to taste

9. Coriander Pwd - 1 tsp

10. Turmeric Pwd - 1/4 tsp

11. Bay Leaf - 2

12. Cinnamon - 1 inch stick

13. Cardamoms - 3

14. Cloves - 4

15. Saffron - 1/4 tsp

16. Coriander Leaves - 1/4 cup (chopped)

17. Mint Leaves - 1/4 cup(chopped)

18. Salt to taste.

Preparation Method : -

1. Marinate the Chicken with yogurt, red chili pwd, coriander pwd, turmeric pwd, ginger garlic paste, bay leaf, cinnamon stick, cloves, cardamom,coriander leaves,mint leaves and salt for 1 hour.

2. Cook the basmati rice with enough salt, till half done and drain the water and keep it aside.

3. Soak the saffron strands in 1 tsp warm milk and keep it aside.

4. Fry 1/2 of the onion slices to golden brown and add the marinated chicken to it.

5. Fry remaining onion to golden brown and keep aside.

6. Now its time to arrange chicken and rice in layers, one layer of chicken and two layer of rice. In a heavy flat bottom pan pour 1tbsp of oil and make to spread all over the pan's surface, arrange the marinated chicken and sprinkle some oil on top of the chicken .

Arrange 1/2 the boiled rice on the marinated chicken , sprinkle fried onions and 1/2 saffron milk.

Repeat the above step for the last layer ,I.e arrange the last layer of rice and fried onions and saffron milk.

7. Now we need to seal the container and make it air tight so that the steam doesn't escape when we cook.

8. Cook biryani for 15-25 minutes on medium flame.

9. Mix the rice and chicken and serve it hot with raita or chicken gravy........