Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken biryani. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken Biryani is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Chicken Biryani is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook chicken biryani using 38 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Biryani:

1. Get For the chicken
2. Make ready 800 gms chicken (big peices around 100gm each peice)
3. Prepare 4 tbsp salt
4. Take 1tsp ginger garlic paste
5. Make ready 1tsp tspn red chilli powder
6. Get 1tsp tspn black pepper
7. Prepare 2tsp biryani spice mix
8. Take 2tsp Kewra water
9. Make ready 2 tbsp yogurt / hung curd
10. Prepare 1 big onion fried
11. Get 1 small drops of Mitha atar
12. Take For the potatoes
13. Make ready 6 medium small potatoes (the starchy one are better)
14. Get 1 tbsp Salt
15. Make ready As needed Yellow food colour just a small
16. Take For the rice
17. Take 420 gms aged long grain basmati rice
18. Get 4 tbspn Salt
19. Prepare 3 bay leaves
20. Take 1 tbsp fennel seeds
21. Make ready 1 tbsp shah jeera
22. Make ready 3 green cardamoms
23. Prepare 1 black cardamom
24. Make ready 1 long cinnamon
25. Take 1/ 2 tsp cloves
26. Get 1 mace
27. Prepare 2.5 kg water
28. Get For layering
29. Get 2 Bay leaves to cover the bottom of the vessel
30. Take 1 tbsp biryani spice mix
31. Get 20 gm lime juice
32. Take 80 gm ghee + butter (microwaved)
33. Make ready 40 gm milk+ saffron 1/4 th tspn+ 1/2 tspn yellow food colour *
34. Make ready 120 gm milk + 2 tspn kewra jol + 4 drops of mitha ator
35. Make ready 100 gm chicken gravy
36. Take 4 boiled eggs
37. Make ready 1 big onion fried
38. Get as needed Powder food colour amount depend upon the quality for the colour

Instructions to make Chicken Biryani:

1. Prepare Biryani spice mix. - (see recipe)
2. Marinate the chicken with salt, yogurt, ginger garlic paste, red chilli powder, fried onions, black pepper powder, biryani spice mix, kewra water and mitha ator at least for 2 hours. If possible overnight, it gives better result.
3. Peel off the potatoes apply salt, pinch of food colour and fry them in medium heat for 2 mins each side.
4. Apply a pinch of salt and fry the boiled eggs for a minute on low heat, keep aside.
5. Wash the rice thoroughly and soak in water for at least 40 mins. (I have used Kohinoor extra long basmati rice.)
6. Pressure cook the chicken and the fried potatoes 2 whistles on medium heat.
7. Meanwhile prepare a spice bag with the spices mentioned in section, For the rice using a cheese cloth. - - Add the spice bag in the water, 2.5 kg and bring it to boil.
8. Prepare for layering for cooking on slow flame (dum cooking). - Need an aluminium vessel for dum cook which can hold all the rice, chicken, potatoes and eggs.
9. Keep an eye on the rice once its 90% cooked switch off the flame and strain it.
10. Brush ghee+ butter mixture inside the vessel. Cover the bottom of the vessel with bay leaves. - - Place all the chicken pieces, potatoes, the chicken gravy, 1tspn biryani spice mix, lime juice and 1 tbspn ghee+ butter mix. - - On top of this add 60% of the rice. Spread the milk + saffron + food colour mix. Add 2 tbspn ghee + butter mix.
11. Add rest of the rice, put the eggs, spread fried onions, and the ghee+ butter mix mind the sides. Then pour the milk + kewra water + mitha ator mix (the aromatics).
12. Seal it with aluminium foil properly, so that the flavors are sealed.
13. Slow cook for 30 to 35 mins on lowest possible heat then turn off flame and let it sit for another 30 mins.
14. Serve while hot. We like it with green salads and raita

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