Recipe: Delicious Chicken Biryani (UP style)

Chicken Biryani (UP style).

You can have Chicken Biryani (UP style) using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken Biryani (UP style)

1. You need 500 grams of basmati rice.
2. Prepare 700 grams of chicken.
3. It's 4 of onions.
4. You need 2 tbsp of ginger garlic paste.
5. Prepare 10 of green chillies.
6. You need 4 of bay leaves.
7. Prepare of Whole spices(to be ground coarsely):.
8. It's 2 tbsp of fennel seeds.
9. Prepare 2 tbsp of coriander seeds.
10. You need 4 of clves.
11. Prepare 4 of green cardemom.
12. It's 1 of black cardemom.
13. It's 1 of "cinnamon stick.
14. You need 6 of cloves.
15. It's 10 of pepper corns.
16. Prepare 1 tbsp of red chilli powder.
17. You need 1/2 cup of curd.
18. It's 150 ml of ghee/oil.
19. It's 1 tea spoon of kewra water.
20. It's 1/4 tsp of orange food colour.

Chicken Biryani (UP style) instructions

1. Wash and soak basmati rice for 1 hour.Keep aside..
2. Heat oil /ghee in a pan.Slice 2 onions longitudinally and fry till golden brown.Take out and keep aside..
3. Chopped 2 remaining onions,fry in the remaining oil.Fry till golden.Add ginger garlic paste and green chillies..Saute for 1 minute..
4. Add chicken,all powdered spices and all coarsely ground spices.Add bay leaves also.Stir and add curd..
5. Add salt and 1 cup water cover and cook for 5 minutes on medium flame.After 5 minutes open the lid,stir the chicken well and cook till oil separates..
6. Add basmati rice and 4 cups of hot water to the chicken.Cover and cook on high flame till boil..
7. Lower the flame to sim and cook till rice is done.Add kewra water.Dissolve orange food colour in 1/4cup milk and pour over biryani.Cover the lid and leave for 10 minutes..
8. Garnish with fried onion and serve hot with raita /salad..