Chicken Biriyani (Malabar Cusine)

Who doesn't like Biriyani? Let's try a Chicken Biriyani Malabar style:)

Ingredients (would serve 5 to 6 people)
Biriyani Rice : 1 kg
Chicken : 1 kg
Ginger : 50gm
Garlic : 50gm
Green Chillies : 100gm
Coriander Leaves : 100gm
Mint Leaves : 50gm
Tomato : 3 nos
Onion  : 6 nos (includes 2 for garnishing)
Cashew : as necessary
Raisins : as necessary
Cloves : 5 nos
Cardamom: 3 nos
Cinnamon :  2 nos
Curry Leaves : as necessary
Ghee : 6 table spoon (3+3)
Oil : 3 table spoon
Salt : to taste
Turmeric powder : 1 pinch
Chilli powder : 1/ 4 table spoon
Garam masala : 1/4 tea spoon
Lemon : 2 nos

Cooking Time : 40 Minutes

Method:
Crush ginger, garlic, green chillies, coriander leaves and mint leaves. Add nicely sliced tomato.

Marinate the chicken in this mixture and keep aside for some time.
To a pan add little oil and fry 4 onions slightly. Then add chicken to it and cook well.

Wash the rice.
To a pan add 3 table spoons of ghee and 3 table spoons of oil.Add cardamom, cloves and cinnamon to it
Now add rice and fry the rice till it starts to pop.
Take double ratio of water to rice.That is, for 1 glass of rice, 2 glass of water.
Boil water and pour it to rice
Add a pinch of turmeric, garam masala powder, salt to taste and squeeze a lemon.
Stir well and cook rice in low flame.

To garnish :
Fry 2 onions , cashew and raisins
Dice few coriander  leaves.
Add little lime juice


Layering:
In a broad vessel, first add a layer of rice, put a layer of chicken on top of it. Add little ghee, few drops of lime juice,  and the fried onion, cashew, raisons and corriander leaves that we made ready for garnishing.
On top of this put another layer of rice
Repeat the process of layering rice, chicken and garnishing.
Close the vessel with a tight lid ( you may seal the lid with some dough also) and keep in slow flame for about 5 to 10 minutes

 

Note: Best served with onion and curd raita and lemon pickle :)