Chicken Briyani

Chicken Briyani is a very special meal almost everywhere in Tamilnadu. I always love Briyani's and my aunt from kamuthi makes the best that I really crave for. If you love chicken and spicyness, this is one recipe that you should surely try. I should definetely thank Kay for her post on the chicken recipe too. I combined the 2 and blended to my taste, Here it is.

Ingredients:

Organic chicken - 1 pound
garlic - 6 pieces
ginger - equal quantity as garlic
green chillies - 4
onion thin long sliced - 1/2 cup
tomatoes chopped - 1/2 cup
corriander leaves chopped fine - 1/2 cup
mint leaves chopped fine - 1/2 cup
cloves - 6
cinnamon sticks - 6 small sticks
elachi - 3
peppercorns - 1 tsp
fenel seeds - 1/2 tsp
Bay leaves - 2
briyani masal - 1 tsp
chilly powder - 2 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
yogurt - 1 cup
ghee - 1/4 cup
Basmati rice - 2 cups

Briyani:

1. Marinate the chicken cut into big pieces with yogurt, chilly powder, turmeric powder and salt
2. Grind ginger, garlic and green chillies into a fine paste
3. Grind cloves, cinnamon, elachi, peppercorns, fennel seeds to a coarse powder
4. In a thick bottomed pan like a pressure cooker, heat ghee
5. Add bay leaves and the stuff from step 3 fry til u get a nice smell
6. Add briyani masal and fry
7. Now add onions, paste from step 2
8. Add tomatoes, corriander and mint leaves
9. Finally add the marinated chicken and cook through out in low flame
10. In a separate pan, with ghee fry the raw rice
11. When the chicken is half cooked, add the fried rice
12. Add water 1.5 cups
13. Pressure cook for one whistle