Chicken Pot Biryani | Traditional Recipe

Biryani is traditionally associated with the Mughlai cuisine . In chicken pot biryani version where all the ingredients are placed in one pot and cooked on the stovetop.

INGREDIENTS
Chicken 750 gms
Turmeric powder ½ tsp
Red chilly powder 1 tbs
Salt 1 tsp
Cloves 4 nos
Cardamom 2 nos
Black cumin seeds 1 tsp
Star anise 1 nos
Cinnamon 1 stick
Mint leaves 1 cup
Coriander leaves 1 cup
Green chillies 5 nos
Onions 1 nos
Rice(soaked for 30 mins) 3 cups
Water 4 ½ cups
Garam masala powder ½ tsp
Coriander powder ½ tsp
Ginger garlic paste 1 tsp
Yogurt 1 cup

METHOD

1. Take a bowl and add chicken, turmeric powder, red chilly powder, salt and mix nicely and marinate it overnight.
Slightly crush cloves, cardamom, star anise, cinnamon with pestle.
2. Take a mixie jar and add mint leaves, coriander leaves, green chillies blend into a green paste.
3. Heat oil in a pot and bay leaves, black cumin seeds, slightly crushed spices and saute it.
4. To it add slices onions, little salt and cook it, later add ginger garlic paste, pinch of turmeric powder, green paste saute it for 1 min.
5. To it add dry coriander powder, little red chilly powder, garam masala powder, yogurt, and mix it, later add chicken and check for seasoning.
6. Remove water from soaked rice.
7. To the pot add water, rice and mix slightly and cook it with lid on first on high flame later on slow flame until rice is cooked.
8. Now the chicken pot biryani is ready to serve with raitha.