Biryani is a Famous Dish in India. You all known about regular chicken Biryani. But this is a bit different Biryani that I tried. One of my friends ate this type of Biryani in one restaurant, and asked me to cook the same. I tried with boneless chicken. Here is the tasty Biryani recipe for you.

Ingredients:

• Basmati Rice – 4 cups
• Oil – 2 to3 spoons
• Ghee – 2 spoons
• Salt to taste
• Ghee – 1spoon
• Turmeric for colour – ½ spoon
• Chilly Powder – 1spoon
• Garam masala powder – 1 spoon
• Jeera Powder – 2 spoons

Spices used for Biryani:

• Cashew nuts – 20
• Garlic bulbs – 5
• Cinnamon sticks – 3
• Cloves – 6
• Cardamom pods cracked – 4
• A pinch of Ajinomoto
• 1 Onion – sliced to long
• Onions – ½ cup of small pieces
• 10 Chillies – sliced long
• Ground Pepper – 2 spoons
• Bay leaves – 5
• Fenugreek – 1 spoon
• Star shaped anise  – 3
• Stone flowers – 3
• Shajeera – 2 spoons
• Javetri – 4

Other Ingredients:

• 1 big Onion – sliced
• 6 Green chillies – sliced/slit
• Coriander/cilantro leaves – ½ cup chopped
• Mint leaves – ½ cup chopped
• Ginger Garlic paste – 2 spoons
• Poppy seeds and cashew nuts paste – 1 spoon
• Lemon juice – 2 spoons

How to make Chicken used in making Biryani:

• Half kilo Chicken breasts or thigh pieces (boneless) cut into small cubes, washed cleanly and dried to remove water.
• Add sufficient amount of oil for deep fry in a frying pan.
• Deep fry the chicken pieces in the oil and pat dry.
• Take the excess oil in a bowl and frying pan should have one or two spoons oil in it.
• Then add 4 garlic bulbs followed by 5 slit green chili pieces and then half a cup of small onion pieces.
• Fry well in the oil until golden brown colour. Add 1 spoon of Ginger garlic paste and fry well.
• Then add chopped mint leaves, followed by chopped coriander leaves and fry for 5 min.
• Add salt, Turmeric powder, 1 spoon  Jeera powder, red chili powder and mix well.
• Add the dry chicken pieces to the pan, close the lid and cook for 8 minutes on simmer.
• Fried bit chicken pieces are ready to be added to the Biryani.

How to prepare Fried Bit Biryani:

• Boil 2-3 spoons of oil in a frying pan for one minute on simmer.
• Then add the biryani spices into frying pan and fry one by one in a following order:
  • Garlic bulbs – Shajeera – Cardamom pods – cloves – Cinnamon Stick – Fenugreek – Star shaped anise – Stone flowers- Javetri – Bay leaves
• Fry the above spices and add any other Biryani spices based on your interest.
• Add slit 5 Green chillies and fry well. Then add long onion pieces, Mint leaves followed by Ginger Garlic paste and fry.
• Add Coriander leaves and Fry well.
• Add 6 cups of water to the pan along with salt and ajinomoto to it and boil well.
• Add one spoon ghee, poppy seeds – Cashew nut paste to the oil and one spoon Garam masala powder to it. Mix well.
• Then add cleanly washed Basmati Rice to the water and mix well.
• Cook for 7 min with a lid on the pan and open the lid and mix well after 7 min in a high flame.
• Then cook well for 5 min with a lid on simmer.
• Then add Fried bit chicken and lemon juice. Mix well.
• Cook for 7 min on simmer.
• Hot Hot Fried Chicken Fried Bit Biryani is ready to eat.