Chicken Lachha Biryani

Chicken Lachha Biryani

Ingredients

• Boneless chicken (cut into juliennes) ½ kg
• Onion sliced 1 cup
• Yogurt 1 cup
• Yellow color pinch
• Capsicum (cut into juliennes) 1
• Carrots (cut into juliennes) 1
• Lemon (cut in round slices) 1
• Tomato (cut into juliennes) 2
• Green chilies (length wise sliced) 4
• Rice (boil with 2 tbsp salt till ¾ done) ½ kg
• Oil ¾ cup
• Mint leaves 15 to 20
• Salt 1 tsp heaped
• Ginger garlic paste 2 tsp
• Kewra water 1 tbsp
• White cumin crushed 2 tsp
• Chili powder 2 tsp
• All spice ½ tsp heaped
• Turmeric ½ tsp
• Black cumin whole ½ tsp
• Chopped coriander leaves 2 tbsp

Method

1. Heat ¾ cup oil, fry 1 cup onion till light golden, add ½ tsp black cumin with 2 tsp ginger garlic paste, 2 tsp chili powder, 1 tsp salt, ½ tsp turmeric, 2 tsp white cumin seeds and fry adding little water, now add ½ kg chicken juliennes, fry for 5 minutes, add 1 cup yogurt with 1 capsicum, 1 carrots, and 2 tomatoes cut into juliennes. Cook till chicken tender.
2. Remove and add 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves, 4 green chilies, 15 to 20 mint leaves, ½ tsp all spice. In a pan spread one layer of ½ kg boiled rice, then cooked chicken mixture. Spread some hara masala, 1 sliced lemon, top with reaming rice. Lastly add 1 tbsp kewra water mixed with pinch of yellow color, simmer for 15 minutes.