Chicken Biriyani

Ingredients:

It serves 3 people

Ingredient	quantity
Jeera sambar rice	1 1/2 cups i.e  250 gm (You can also use normal rice along with jeera rice in the 1:1 ratio)
Coconut milk	1 1/2cups (should be extracted from freshly grated coconut)
Water	1 1/2cups
Salt	As required
Onions	1 small sized sliced
Chicken	1/2 kg
Lemon juice	Juice of half small lemon
Turmeric powder	A pinch
Oil	4 tbsp
Ghee	2 tbsp
Bay leaf and marathi moggu	2 piece each

To grind to paste

• Green chillies : 2 (fried in oil)
• Red chillies : 2 (fried in oil) or chilli powder
• onion : ½ small onion (say 2 picecs)
• Dhaniya seeds : 1 tsp or dhaniya powder - 1/2 tsp
• nut meg powder: 1 pinch
• cinnamon :  1 inch piece
• garlic: 3 cloves
• elaichi : 2
• star anise:1 (optional)
• marathimoggu ; 2
• tomato : 1 (small)
• coriander leaves : few
• mint leaves : 1 small bunch
• ginger : 1/2 piece

Method:

•  Grind all the ingredients to grind to paste and if you want to add the filtered masala , mix the grinded masala with 1 ½ cups of water and filter it using tea filter and keep aside

• Heat oil,ghee in a thick bottomed vessel and add bay leaf,marathi moggu ,onion and fry. Add the turmeric powder

• Then add the chicken and fry for 6-7 min and cover the lid and cook for 5 min.

• If are not filtering the grinded masala, then add the masala and fry for 5 min or till the raw smell of the masala goes away. 

• Wash the raw rice with water and add to the above mix and fry for few minutes and then add the coconut milk and water (if masala is filtered add that water instead of normal water).

• Add salt as per taste .

• Once the water starts boiling close the vessel with a lid and reduce the flame(medium flame).Keep mixing the rice in between.

• Once the rice is almost boiled add the lemon juice and mix it properly and cover the lid and  cook on very low flame.