Recipe: Perfect Chicken Biryani

Chicken Biryani.

You can cook Chicken Biryani using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken Biryani

1. It's 2 cups of Basmati rice.
2. It's 1 of whole chicken.
3. Prepare 1 cup of Yogurt.
4. You need 2 tablespoons of Biryani masala.
5. It's of Green chili (optional).
6. You need of Fried onions.
7. You need of Lemon juice.
8. It's leaf of Fresh mint chopped.
9. It's of Fresh coriander chopped.
10. You need 2 pieces of Star Anise.
11. Prepare 4 pieces of Cardamom.
12. Prepare 2 pieces of Bay leaf.
13. It's 1 teaspoon of tumeric.
14. It's to taste of Salt.
15. Prepare of Bouillon.
16. It's of Chilli powder.
17. It's of Cloves.
18. It's of Saffron.
19. You need 3 tablespoons of milk.
20. Prepare 3 of oils.

Chicken Biryani step by step

1. Wash your chicken and marinate your chicken with a tablespoon salt, chilli powder (to ur taste) 2 tablespoons Biryani masala, a hand full fried onions, chopped fresh mint and coriander leaf and add 3 tablespoons oil and turmeric.
2. Mix well and add the yogurt to chicken and lemon juice to marinate for at least two hours or overnight.
3. After the chicken have marinated, you can either (grill or fry the chicken especially if you are using local chicken to make the chicken soft) but for this i semi fry them and keep aside in another pot i.
4. Wash and Soak the rice for 15 minutes and drain, meanwhile pot water in a pot wen it comes to boil add salt(let the salt comes out pls) 2 boullion cubes, star anise, bay leaf, cardamom, cloves and 3 tablespoons oil and add the rice.
5. Cook the rice till is about 90 percent cooked and then off the stop strained the rice and keep aside then rinse the pot.
6. On the stove put the pot on the fire add two tablespoons oil, using a plate or something fetch the rice and spread in the pot (this is important pls make sure to spread the rice and not put in one place) the add a couple pieces of chicken the chicken fried onions, the mint and coriander leaf and then add the rice again by spreading it and repeat the step again.
7. After the last step soak the saffron in the milk and spread on top of the rice and cover with a lead, for the first 10 mints on high heat and 5 mint low heat or till u are sure the rice is soft (the Egg is optional).
8. But if u want boil the egg separate, After the 15 mints off the fire but dnt open and allow the rice to rest for like 5 mints if u are patient 😋 enough and then serve and sprinkle ur mint leaf and ur slice boiled egg (plss dnt turn the rice).