Chicken Biriyani

Chicken - 500 gms
Basmati Rice - 3 Cups
2 Onions sliced
3-4 tomatoes finely chopped
3 green chillies slit
Ginger garlic paste - 1-2 Tbsp
Mint(pudhina) 1/2 cup
Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup
Chilli powder 1 Tbsp
Dhania Powder 2 Tbsp
Turmeric powder 1 Tsp
Garam Masala Powder 1/2 tsp(optional)
Biriyani leaf - 1
Cinnamon - 1 inch
cardamom - 1/2 inch
sombu - 1 tsp
cloves - 2 nos
Oil as required
Water as required
salt to taste

Method :

1. Wash and soak Basmati rice for 20-30 mins.

2. In a Electric Rice Cooker - Pour Oil, and season it with whole garam masalas above.when splutters

3. Add onion and green chillies and saute it, when half cooked add ginger garlic paste and mix it. Now add tomatoes and wait for it to cook finely until raw smell goes.

4. Now add chicken pieces and all masala powders above with salt and mix well. Leave it for few mins.

5. Drain the water from rice and pour the rice into the cooker and mix them slowly.

6. Measure 4 1/2 cups of water, As chicken will leave water.

7. Add coriander leaves and mint to this and check salt and spice, Mix well and close the lid. When cooked, it goes to warm mode and leave it in dum for 15 mins and the biriyani is done.

8.Serve hot with onion raita or cucumber raita.

Note : If you are using a Pressure cooker then please follow the same and just keep one whistle and not more. Spices can be added if you want more.