Simple and Easy Chicken Biryani

Ingredients

Chicken – ½ kg

Rice – 1 kg

Onion – 6 big

Potato – 1 to 2

Tomato – 2

Ginger garlic paste – 2 tbl.sp

Bay leaf – 2

Saffron soaked in water

Yoghurt – 3 tbl.sp

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Salt as per taste

Few coriander and mint leaves

Garam masala – 1  tsp

Ghee or butter – 1 tsp

Roast and make a powder of

Coriander seed – 1 tbl.sp

Cumin seed – 1 tsp

Cinnamon – a small stick

Cloves – 4

Cardamom – 2

Black cardamom – 1

Whole pepper – 1 tbl.sp

Method

Fry onions till golden brown in color.

Clean and wash chicken and marinate it with salt, turmeric
powder, ground  roasted masala, yoghurt,
onions, tomato, potato and coriander and mint leaves. Leave it aside for half
to one hour.

Heat oil in a pan and add bay leaf and two tbl.sp of ginger
garlic paste. Saute for few seconds till the raw smell goes. Then add the
marinated chicken with the masala. Mix it well and leave it to cook till
chicken is cooked well.

Soak rice in water for half an hour.

In another pan boil water by adding whole cinnamon, cloves,
bay leaf, cumin seed and black cardamom and one tsp of oil. When it starts
boiling add rice. When the rice is 75 percent cooked drain the water and put it
in the chicken masala.

Garnish it with coriander and mint leaves, garam masala,
fried onions, saffron and butter and keep it on a slow flame until the rice is
cooked well.