Chicken Biriyani

Ingredients:

• Chicken - 1/2 Kg
• Basmathi rice - 2 cups
• Onion - 1 big
• Tomato - 1 big
• Garlic - 5 to 6 pods
• Oil - 3 tb sp
• Ghee - 2 tb sp
• Cloves - 2
• Bay leaf - 1
• Cinnamon - 1"
• Pudhina leaves - 1 cup
• Coriander leaves - 1 cup
• Green Chilli - 3
• Chilli powder - 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
• Curd - 1/2 cup
• Biriyani essence - 1/2 tsp
• Salt to taste

Method:

Soak the rice in water. For two cups of rice 3 1/2 glass of water. Clean the chicken.

Slice the onion and tomatoes. Crush the Garlic along with the skin.

In a cooker heat the oil and ghee together add the spices, followed by the garlic and onion. Sauté till the onions slightly brown. Then add the chillies and tomatoes. Cook till the tomatoes are tender.

Add the chicken, chilli powder, turmeric powder. Close and cook the chicken well. When the chicken is cooked well beat the sour curd well and pour into the chicken. Then add the salt. Add the pudhina leaves, coriander leaves, rice along with the soaked water. Mix well check for salt and spice. Close the cooker and keep it in sim for 15 minutes. Do not put the cooker weight.

After 15 min turn off the stove and put the weight. Open after 15 min sprinkle the essence and mix slightly with out breaking the rice. Serve hot with Raitha.