Biryani

No doubt we all know biryani is one of the favorite dishes among all. So we are going to give all of you the recipe to make your own biryani. And here goes the recipe…

Things you gonna need-                  Time -50 min.

2 rice cups

500g chicken cut in to pieces

2 thinly sliced onions

½ tsp. saffron

2 tsp. chili powder

2 tsp. curry powder

5 cloves of garlic

1 inch long ginger

Piece of cinnamon

3 cardamom

3 cloves

½ tsp. black pepper

2 tomatoes

150g green peas

70g raisins

50g roasted cashew nuts

Curry leaves

3 tsp. butter or oil

Salt for taste

Let’s get started-

• Wash rice and let it soak. Heat the butter and fry onions till it turns to golden color and set aside to drain oil. Then fry raisins and green peas and set them aside.

• In low flame add curry leaves, garlic, ginger, chili powder, curry powder to the rest of the oil and fry 2 to  3 min. You can add more oil if needed. Then add chicken and black pepper. Cover and cook for 10 min.

• Add chopped tomatoes, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, salt and 1 ½ cups of water and cook another  10 min.

• Set aside ½ cup of gravy and chicken pieces. Add soaked rise to the rest of the gravy and add more salt if needed. Cook in high flame for 1 min. then cover and cook in very low flame for about 15 min. or till the rice is cooked. Now the rice is done.

• Deep fry the chicken. Then mix fried onions, raisins and green peas with the cooked rice. Serve rice with fried chicken and the gravy.

*For a complete meal serve with deep fried hard boiled eggs and a tomato salad.

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