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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.

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No. Of Servings 4
Time To Prepare 
Submitted By Priyanka Nag
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Ingredients

- 1 cut into 8 pieces Chicken
- 2 tbsp Yogurt
- 1 medium, paste Onion
- 1/2 inch, paste Ginger
- 1/2 tsp Red Chili Powder
- 2 cups, washed and soaker for 30 min. Basmati Rice
- 4 crushed Cardamom
- 2 inch, crushed Cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp Nutmeg powder
- 1/4 tsp, powder Mace
- 1 tsp Kewra Water
-  to taste Salt
- 1/2 tsp Sugar
- 3 tbsp Cooking Oil
- 2 tbsp Ghee
- 3 cup, for rice Water
- 2 boiled, for garnishing Egg
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Instructions

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.

 

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