Recipe: Perfect Easy chicken biryani

Easy chicken biryani.

You can cook Easy chicken biryani using 30 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Easy chicken biryani

1. It's 1 3/4 cup of basmati long grain rice (washed and drained).
2. It's of 2 large onions for frying.
3. It's 2 tbsp of ghee (clarified butter).
4. You need 1 1/2 of tomato (finely chopped).
5. You need leaves of Mint.
6. You need of Oil to deep fry onion.
7. It's of Coriander leaves (optional).
8. Prepare 1 of large onion for biryani (finely chopped.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of ginger garlic paste.
10. Prepare 4 of green chilies.
11. Prepare 2 tsp of turmeric.
12. You need 3 tsp of red chilli powder.
13. It's 2 tsp of coriander powder.
14. You need 2 tsp of garam masala.
15. You need 1 tbsp of yogurt.
16. It's 2 tsp of saffron.
17. It's of For cooking Rice.
18. Prepare 6-8 of cloves.
19. Prepare 10-12 of black pepper.
20. Prepare 2 inches of cinnamon.
21. Prepare 2-3 of green cardamon.
22. It's 1 of black cardamom.
23. Prepare 4-5 of -star anise.
24. Prepare 2-3 of bay leaves.
25. You need 1/2 of lemon juice.
26. It's of Salt.
27. Prepare of For Smokey charcoal flavor.
28. You need of charcoal.
29. Prepare 1 tsp of ghee/oil.
30. Prepare of small Katori.

Easy chicken biryani instructions

1. Marinate chicken with ginger garlic paste, salt, coriander powder, and yogurt. Keep marinated for a minimum half hour..
2. In a kadai heat oil to fry onion. Make a thin slice of 2 large onions. Deep fry on high initially and low the flame when they turn light brown. Fry them till golden brown on medium flame..
3. Keep a thick bottom vessel, pour in ghee. When it heats add marinated chicken cook till golden brown. Remove and keep aside. Make sure to put only pieces not the entire marination..
4. In the same vessel add onion and cook till translucent, followed by tomatoes. Let the tomatoes get soften..
5. Add cooked chicken and the marination and a little.
6. In other pot boil 3 cups of water and drop all the spices mentioned in For cooking Rice..
7. Let it boil for 3 to 4 minutes. Remove all the spices from the boiling water and put rice for cooking..
8. Let be a flame on high for two minutes, slow down later to medium-low and pour lemon juice into it. Cook rice half cook..
9. Now spread fried onion and mint leaves on cooked chicken and layer with rice..
10. Again on rice spread saffron and chopped mint and coriander leaves and one teaspoon of ghee all over..
11. Cover and cook everything on low flame.
Check after few minutes at intervals..
12. Once cooked place Katori on the cooked Biryani and put burning charcoal in it followed by ghee on it. Cover it so smoke should not escape. Keep covered till serving..
13. Serve with raita or curd..