Hyderabad biriyani

Ingredients :

Chicken - 1kg
fired onions - 3 tbsp
green chills - 8
corinader leaves - 1bunch
mint leaves - 1bunch
whole gram masala( bay leaves, green cardamom, black cardamom, cloves,cinnamon stick )
coriander powder- 1 tsp
chilli powder- 2tsp
cumin powder- 1tsp
salt to taste
gram masala powder - 1tsp
curd /yogurt - 1 cup
oil-2tbsp
color water - 4 tsp


For marination :

Clean the chicken and add all the incredients above except gram masala powder . put aside for half hour . at same time soak the bastami rice ( 6 cups rice for 1kg chicken) for half hour

Preparation of rice:
Rice is the main one in biriyani ( should not stick together as regular white rice) drain the water , put a heavy bottomed pan in stove add enough mount of water and add 2tbs oil to it and few cumin seeds. bring it to boil and now add the soaked rice in to it and allow to boil for 3 to 4 mins now turn off the stove , drain the water and take the half cooked rice .

now use the same heavy bottomed pan , put the marination in to it and add a little amount of rice over it , add chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves , fried onions over the rice , now again add the remaining amount of rice over it and add coriander & mint leaves ,fried onions ,color water,gram masala power .now cover the pan with lid and keep it in oven and set the temperature to 300. after 20 to 30 mins the chicken briyani is ready ( layered rice )

Note :If you dnt have oven use a tawa place it on stove , on tawa place the heavy bottomed pan .. and put the flame high for first 5 mins and then reduce to slow sim and cook for 25 mins.

Using method you can do mutton briyani too but soak mutton with meat tenderizer for half an hour ...

Using same method , you can do vegetable briyani too...