Ingredients

• 1 cup - basmati rice
• 5-6 tsp - oil
• 2 - chopped onions
• 2 - chopped tomatoes
• 1 - bay leaf
• 4 - cardamoms
• 4 - cloves
• 4 - cinnamons
• 2 tsp - curd
• 1/2 - lime
• 10 leaves - mint
• 250 g - chicken
• 3 tsp - ginger-garlic paste
• salt to taste
• 50 g - coriander leaves
• 1.5 tsp - red chilli powder
• 10 - roasted cashews

How to Make Basic Chicken Biryani

• Make a dry powder of two cloves, cardamoms and cinnamons.
• Heat oil in a vessel, add the remaining cloves, cinnamons, cardamoms and bay leaf and fry. Add the chopped onions and fry.
• Add the dry powder and ginger-garlic paste.
• Fry well and add the chopped tomatoes. Fry until the oil separates.
• Add chilli powder, fry for a minute, then add curd, mint and coriander leaves and fry.
• Add chicken and salt and cook for 5 minutes.
• Add water. Once it boils, add lime juice and rice and cook on low flame for 10 minutes.
• Garnish with roasted cashews.
• Serve with onion raitha and chicken gravy.