Simple Chicken Biriyani

Ingredients:

• Rice 2 cups
• Ghee 4 Tbsp
• Chicken 700 gm 
• Boiling water 3½ cup
• Lemon juice 1 Tsp
• Crushed garlic 2 Tbsp
• Crushed ginger 2 Tbsp
• Crushed green chilly 10 
• Sliced onion 4
• Turmeric pdr ½ Tsp
• Kashmiri chilly pdr 1 Tsp
• Tomato sauce 1 Tbsp
• Curd 1½ Tbsp
• Coriander leaves 1 handful
• Mint leaves 1 handful
• Garam masala 1 Tsp
• Fried onion 1 small
• Cashew nuts 15
• Kismis 15
• Salt

Wash and soak the rice for 15 mins and drain it. Heat ghee in a biriyani pot and add crushed ginger, garlic and green chilly. Brown it for a few mins and add the sliced onion. Saute it till it becomes transluscent. Reduce the heat and add turmeric pdr, chilly pdr, salt, tomato sauce, garam masala and curd into onion and saute it well. Then add ¾th of the chopped coriander leaves and mint into the above mixture along with sliced chicken and cook. Simultaneously, boil 3½ cup of water in another pan. When the chicken is half cooked, put the drained rice into this and mix it slowly. Pour the boiling water and lemon juice into rice. Cover and cook it in low flame. Remove it from fire and garnish it with kismis, cashews and fried onion.

[Recipe courtesy: Magic Oven, Lakshmi Nair]