Chicken biriyani

Chicken biriyani is my husband's very favorite dish. He ask me to prepare very often. I already posted Mutton biriyani and Chicken dhum biriyani. This is i learnt from one of my friend. She prepared very nice when we have gone to my husband's friend house. The taste was very nice. She prepared with basmathy rice. But i am going to prepare with biriyani rice. That is Jeera rice (Jeeraga samba). We can get it from all grocery shops. When we prepare with this rice, we can get great aroma for biriyani and very good taste. Let us prepare the tasty Chicken biriyani.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	20 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Jeera rice	:	1 Cup
Chicken	:	250 Gm
Oil+ Ghee	:	4-5 Tsp
Cinnamon	:	2 Pcs
Bay leaf	:	1 No
Cloves	:	3 Nos
Cardamon	:	1 No
Onion	:	1 No
Ginger garlic paste	:	2 Tsp
Tomato	:	1 No
Chilly Dhaniya powder	:	2 Tsp
Garam masala	:	1 Tsp
Cumin seed powder	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
Mint leaves	:	Few
Coriander leaves	:	Few
Lime juice	:	2 Tsp

Curd                             :  1 Cup

Method :
Wash the chicken pieces well with adding turmeric powder. Heat oil and ghee in a pressure cooker, add cinnamon, bay leaf, cloves and cardamon. Add onion slices, chopped mint and coriander leaves and saute well.

Add Ginger garlic paste and saute till the raw smell goes. Add tomato, saute well.

Add washed chicken pieces and saute. Add all the masala powders and  sour-less curd.

Add rinsed rice and fry a little. Add lemon juice and water in 1:2 ratio.

Close the pressure cooker with the lid and wait for 20 minutes in low flame or allow 2 whistles to come.
After 20 Minutes, wait for 5 minutes for pressure release. Open the lid, mix slightly and transfer to the serving dish and serve hot.

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