Hyderbadi Biryani

South Spicy Food

 

Ingredients:

• Basmathi rice-2 cups
• Ginger garlic paste -2 table spoon
• coriander powder-1 table spoon
• salt to taste
• chillies 4
• Dried onions -2 table spoons
• oil --1 cup table spoons
• yogurt or curd--2 cups
• lemon-1
• cumin powder-1/4 spoon
• coriander leaves -1 bunch(big)
• Red&yellow food colours
• cloves-4
• cinnamon -5
• ilachi-3
• Red chilli powder-1 table spoon
• Whole garam masala -!/2 table spoon
• chicken -!/2 kg
• Turmeric powder

How to Prepare:-

First clean the rice and then soak it for 1/2 hour.If u don't soak for 1/2 hour your biryani won't be good.Now next step is to marinate chicken:-take 1/2 kg chicken in a bowl clean it to it add salt ,curd or yogurt,oil,lemon juice chilli powder,coriander powder,cumin powder,chopped chillies,turmeric,ginger garlic paste,coriander leaves,dried onion's mix all these well and keep aside for 1 hour.

Now how to prepare Biryani:- To boil rice take a vessel with water add salt,oil,cinnamon sticks,cloves,ilachi and then bring to boiling point.now add the rice and keep lid on the vessel.now boil the rice to half boiled.now separate the rice from water.now take another deep bottom vessel  with tiet lid and put the marinated chicken in the bottom of the  vessel now the next layer is rice now keep the half boiled rice on the top of the marinated chicken .now take two  food colours  separately with 1 spoon of water and pour it on to separate portions on the rice .now  on the top of the rice add some dried onions,coriander leaves and then keep the lid to tiet to keep the lid extra tiet use chapathi dove to bind the lid.keep on the stove for 15-20 min the biryani will be ready.

How to know Biryani is cooked inthe vessel:-flumes comes out of the lid with nice biryani flavour.

After Biryani is cooked keep it like that with out opening the lid .after 1/2 an hour remove the and lid then mix rice top to bottom  carefully without breaking of  Basmathi rice.Enjoy----------------------