Unique Chicken Biryani

• 1 1/2 kilograms chicken
• 2 tablespoon yoghurt (curd)
• 1/2 tablespoon salt
• 500 millilitre refined oil
• 1 kilograms tomato
• 1 handful coriander leaves
• 1/2 tablespoon coriander powder
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 4 green cardamom
• 2 kilograms basmati rice
• 1/4 cup lemon juice
• 1/2 cup coriander leaves
• 3 tablespoon refined oil
• 1/2 tablespoon edible food color
• 4 cinnamon stick
• 1 dash black pepper
• 4 star anise
• 1 tablespoon garlic paste
• 1 handful mint leaves

• 500 ml buttermilk
• 2 tablespoon red chilli powder
• 1/4 tablespoon turmeric
• 1 kilograms onion
• 4 tablespoon refined oil
• 1/2 tablespoon cumin powder
• 1/2 tablespoon sugar
• 1/2 tablespoon garam masala powder
• 2 tablespoon chilli powder
• water as required
• 1 cup thinly sliced onion
• 1/2 cup chopped mint leaves
• 1/2 cup milk
• 4 black cardamom
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 4 bay leaf
• 1 tablespoon ginger paste
• 4 green chillies

Step 1 Prepare the marinade and marinate the chicken for 12 hours

In a bowl, add buttermilk and curd, and mix well. Now add washed chicken pieces in it then add salt, chilly powder, turmeric powder. Mix all very well keep it in the fridge for 12 hours or overnight. Afterwards, after 12 hours, soak the rice in water for 2 hours.

Step 2 Make green paste

Next, heat oil in the pan and add sliced onion in it, fry them till birista is ready. Until then make the green paste by mixing together ginger garlic paste, green chillies, coriander leaves and mint leaves. Use a little buttermilk from marination for grinding all the ingredients to make a fine paste.

Step 3 Marinate chicken again with green paste and other spices

Now, take out the marinated chicken. Add green paste, turmeric powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, sugar and garam masala powder mix very well keep aside.

Step 4 Cook the marinated chicken for 10-15 minutes

In a pan or kadhai, add oil. When the oil is hot enough, add dried Indian spices fry for a minute now add onion birista ( take out some birista for topping and garnishing ), chopped tomatoes mix well cook for 5 minutes on medium flame. Now add marinated chicken mix well add chilly powder and salt as per taste mix well close lid cook for 5 minutes on medium heat. Open lid cook till all water reduced from it on medium flame then switch off the flame.

Step 5 Add rice and prepare biryani

Now in a large vessel, add water then add the salt and lemon juice mix well boil it. When water starts boiling add soaked rice cook it 50 per cent then drain the water from it. Then, in a big vessel spread half rice, on rice spread gravy add birista, chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves on it and sprinkle half lemon juice. Now spread another rice part then spread birista chopped leaves, lemon juice, hot oil, and milk and orange food colour mixture. Close the lid and cook till Biryani cooked very well. For garnishing, take out the biryani in the plate and spread birista and leaves on top. Keep tomato flower on top serve hot.