Easy Chicken Biryani

Chicken pieces cooked with spices and mixed with basmati rice. And this one is real easy one to cook. Fast to cook, and tasty to eat.

• Ready In: 1 hr 10 mins
• Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 1  whole chicken, cut into 8 pieces
• 2  tablespoons yogurt
• 1  medium  onion paste
• 1⁄2 inch ginger paste
• 1⁄2 teaspoon red chili powder
• 2  cups basmati rice, washed and soaker for 30 min
• 4  crushed cardamom
• 2  inches  crushed cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground mace
• 1  teaspoon kewra essence
•  to taste salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon sugar
• 3  tablespoons  cooking oil
• 2  tablespoons ghee
• 3  cups water, for rice

Directions

1. Marinate the chicken in curd along with ginger paste, red chili powder, and half of the crushed cardamom and cinnamon for 1/2 hour.
2. Heat oil in a pan and stir fry the onion paste for 5 minutes. Add the marinated chicken into it and fry in medium heat till oil starts coming out from the pan.
3. Add a little water and boil till the tender and dry.
4. Heat ghee in rice cooker, add mace powder, nutmeg powder, salt, sugar and the remaining cardamom and cinnamon. Fry for a minute.
5. Add rice and stir for 3 minutes. Add 3 cup water and cook the rice till it is 75% done.
6. Mix the cooked chicken in layers and add saffron and Kewra essence. Keep it in under pressure for at least one hour. Garnish with boiled eggs.