Recipe Contributed by Made Easy Community Member : Muniza Adnan
Meal type: dinner
10-20 min
15-30 min
6
Recipe Cusine:
pakistani
Holidays & events:
Special for parties
Ingredients:
For Boiling Rice:
1/2 kg saila rice
2 Tablespoon National Salt
1 Bay Leave
2 Star Spice Badian
1 Cinamon Stick
3 cloves
For Tikka:
2 tbsp Oil
Chicken cut into 12 pieces
1-1/2 Tablespoon Garlic Paste
1 Tablespoon Ginger Paste
3 tbsp National Crushed Pickle (blended)
1 tsp National Garam Masala powder
4 tbsp National Tikka Masala
4 tbsp yogurt
For Gravy:
1/2 cup Oil
3 Onions finely sliced
1/2 cup Yogurt
1 Tablespoon garlic paste
1 Tablespoon Ginger paste
1 Tablespoon National Crushed Pickle
1 Teaspoon National Turmeric Powder
1 Teaspoon National Red Chili powder
1 Tablespoon National Cumin Powder Roasted and Ground
1 Tablespoon National Coriander Powder
3 Green Chilies Crushed
Mix garam masala
8 to 10 potato pieces
For Garnishing:
1 tsp Lemon Juice
1/4 Cup Coriander leaves chopped
1 Tablespoon Mint leaves chopped
3 Green Chilies
2 Lemons sliced finely
6 Dried Plums washed
Directions
Marinate the chicken pieces for at least 2 to 3 hours with the ingredients mentioned in the "For Tikka:" section.
Heat 2 Tablespoons oil in a pan and add marinated meat to it.
Cover it with a lid and cook over slow heat till tender and dry. Take it out in a plate or bowl and grill it directly on the stove for the barbeque marks.
For Gravy
Add 1/2 oil to a pan. Add the sliced onion to it. Fry onions in oil till golden brown. Take out the onions and blend them with yogurt into a smooth paste.
In the same oil in which we fry the onions, add ginger garlic paste, and then add the blended gravy.
Add potatoes.
Cook till it is about to dry, and at this stage add all the spices mentioned in the ingredients "For Gravy:" section and the remaining tikka gravy.
Cook till the mixture gives off oil and potatoes get tender.
Boiling Rice and Assembling
Soak the rice in water at least for two hours.
In a large pan, boil water with all the spices mentioned in the ingredients "For Boiling Rice:" section. When water comes to a boil add the soaked rice to it. When rice gets tender, strain the rice.
In the same pan, you boiled the rice, now drizzle some oil. Make a layer of some rice and then pour prepared gravy over.
Mix all the garnish ingredients in a bowl and add 1 tsp National Chat Masala and lemon juice in it and mix. Now layer it on the gravy.
Now add the remaining rice. Mix some yellow food color in 2 tbsp of water and put it over rice. Now place tikka pieces on the rice.
Burn a little piece of coal over the stove and put it on a foil case or metal bowl.
Place this on top of biryani and pour a few drops of oil over it and immediately cover the pan. Open the lid after 5 minutes.
Heat 5 tbsp of oil and pour over rice. Cover the lid and leave it over a low heat flame for 20 minutes.