Lucknowi chicken biryani

Lucknowi chicken biryani

 

Ingredients

• Chicken 1 kg 12 pieces
• Rice ½ kg
• Brown onion grinded 4 tbsp
• Yogurt 1 cup
• Salt 1 ½ tsp
• Ginger garlic 2 tbsp
• Allspice 1 tsp
• Chili powder 1 tsp heaped
• Pinch of turmeric
• Green chilies 6 grinded
• Cashew nuts 8 grinded
• Poppy seeds 1 tbsp grinded
• Coconut 1 tbsp grinded
• Roasted gram 1 tsp grinded
• Saffron ¼ tsp
• Kewra water 1 tsp

Method

• Marinate chicken meat with ginger garlic paste, salt and yogurt for 30 minutes, heat oil add grinded green chilies, grinded mixture of cashew nuts, poppy seeds, coconut and roasted gram, add marinated chicken with chili powder, turmeric, all spice, fry well, cover and leave it till chicken tender and thick gravy remains, boil rice half done with 2 tbsp salt and whole spices 1 tbsp, spread half cooked rice in a pan top with chicken mixture, remaining rice, sprinkle saffron and kewra on top, keep it on dum for 15 to 20 minutes.