Easy Chicken Biryani

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 whole chicken, cut into 8 pieces
• 2 tablespoons yogurt
• 1 medium onion paste
• 1/2 inch ginger paste
• 1/2 teaspoon red chili powder
• 2 cups basmati rice, washed and soaker for 30 min
• 4 crushed cardamom
• 2 inches crushed cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon ground mace
• 1 teaspoon kewra essence
• to taste salt
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• 3 tablespoons cooking oil
• 2 tablespoons ghee
• 3 cups water, for rice

Recipe

• 1 marinate the chicken in curd along with ginger paste, red chili powder, and half of the crushed cardamom and cinnamon for 1/2 hour.
• 2 heat oil in a pan and stir fry the onion paste for 5 minutes. add the marinated chicken into it and fry in medium heat till oil starts coming out from the pan.
• 3 add a little water and boil till the tender and dry.
• 4 heat ghee in rice cooker, add mace powder, nutmeg powder, salt, sugar and the remaining cardamom and cinnamon. fry for a minute.
• 5 add rice and stir for 3 minutes. add 3 cup water and cook the rice till it is 75% done.
• 6 mix the cooked chicken in layers and add saffron and kewra essence. keep it in under pressure for at least one hour. garnish with boiled eggs.