Chicken Biryani

5 ingredients
11 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 5/8 cups basmati rice
  • mint leaves
  • raisins
  • 1 teaspoon red chili powder
  • spices

Directions

  1. 1
    Take a bowl and mix all the ingredients mentioned above in marinade. Add chicken pieces to the mixture. Let it sit like that for 4-5 hours.
  2. 2
    Take any cooking oil/butter/ghee in a frying pan and saute dry spices and add onions ,mint till they turn brown (golden).
  3. 3
    Soak the basmati rice for 15 minutes in lukewarm water, wash 3-4 times and drain the excess water.
  4. 4
    Soak saffron in warm milk and allow it to cool for some time.
  5. 5
    Take a deep vessel, grease the bottom of the vessel with ghee/butter/cooking oil, now, add some of the marinated chicken to the pot, add some of the fried onion over it.
  6. 6
    Put half of the rice on the chicken as a layer, pour in some saffron milk and fried onions and dry spices over it.
  7. 7
    Add all the reserved chicken and chicken stock, then add another layer of rice and pour in all saffron milk over it.
  8. 8
    Add some ghee or butter on the top. And cover the vessel with the aluminum foil or thick cloth. Cover the pot with the lid.
  9. 9
    Cook it on medium flame for 20 minutes. Now, lower the flame, and cook it for 10-15 minutes. Switch off the flame and open it after 10 minutes. Garnish it with raisins and coriander leaves.
  10. 10
    Delicious, aromatic Biryani is ready.
  11. 11
    Courtesy: http://www.activitydeck.com/9-best-chicken-recipes-chicken-biryani-butter-chicken-recipe-more/#ChickenBiryani

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