Chicken Biryani

Chicken Biryani

Ingredients:

• ½ kg Chicken
• 2 Onions
• 6 Cloves
• 3 tbsp Oil
• 350 ml Curd
• 6 Cardamom
• 1 tbsp Garlic paste
• 1 tbsp Ginger paste
• 500 gm half cooked Rice
• ½ tsp Cinnamon powder
• 2 tbsp chopped Coriander leaves

Method:

1. Grind all ingredients except chicken and rice.
2. Marinate the chicken in the mixture for 2-3 hrs.
3. Heat oil in a pan. Add the marinated chicken and cook until tender.
4. Take a heavy pan and arrange the chicken and rice in layers. Squeeze a lemon on the top layer and scatter browned onions.
5. Seal the pan and cook over a very slow flame for 40-50 minutes.
6. Serve hot.

Tip: To make thick gravy for chicken grate the onions, squeeze out their juice. Fry the onions and the masala. Add the juice as stock, after the onions are brown.