CHICKEN BIRYANI / CHICKEN BIRYANI RECIPE

                               INGREDIENTS:

1.  Chicken - 1/2 kg
2.  Ginger garlic paste - 2 teaspoon
3.  Cooking oil - 50 ml
4.  Gold winner vanaspathi / dalda - 100 g
5.  Onion - 1
6.  Tomatoes - 3
7.  Salt to taste
8.  Curry leaves little
9.  Mint leaves little
10.Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon
11.Red chilly powder - 2-3 tablespoon
12.Spices like cinnamon (IIlavanga pattai), cloves (Krambu), saunf (sombu), elaichi (yellakai) - each little
13.Basmathi rice - 1/2 kg

METHOD:
1.  Soak the rice in water for 1/2 an hour. When you start to cook filter the rice and keep it aside. Wash the chicken with some turmeric powder and keep it aside.

2.  Take a pressure cooker and keep it on flame pour cooking oil and dalda when they gets hot add the spices, ginger garlic paste, cut onion, mint leaves, curry leaves, onion, chicken pieces and fry them till golden brown.

3.  Now add the turmeric powder, chilly powder, green chillies, tomatoes and some salt to taste. Fry them till the water in the masala gets dry.

4.  Add the water and wait till the foam comes and add the soaked rice and stir them well and close the lid of the cooker and keep it for only 2 whistles.

5.  After 15 mins serve hot with onion raita.

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