Chicken Donne Briyani

Ingredients
- Chicken – ½ kg
- Jeera Rice / Jeeragasamba Rice – 2 cups
- Green chilies – 2 nos
- Ginger – 1 “inch stick
- Garlic – 5 cloves
- Ginger-garlic paste – 2 tsp
- Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
- Coriander leaves – ½ cup
- Mint leaves – ½ cup
- Clarified butter – 2 tbsp
- Oil – 1 tbsp
- Cinnamon – 2 nos 1 “inch stick
- cloves – 5 nos
- Cardamom – 2 nos
- Star anise – 2 nos
- Bay leaf – 2 nos
Instructions
- Wash and drain the water from the rice and keep it aside.
- Wash and drain the water from the chicken and keep it aside.
- Peel and roughly chop the onions.
- Heat 2 tsp of oil in a kadai, add in a star anise, a cinnamon stick, 3 cloves, 1 cardamom, ginger stick, garlic cloves, onions, mint and coriander leaves. Cook until the raw smell goes off or until the onions turn golden brown.
- Remove from fire, bring to room temperature and grind it to a fine paste by adding little water.
- Heat clarified butter/ghee and leftover oil in a pressure-cooker, add in the leftover cinnamon, cloves, star anise, cardamom, bay leaves and ginger-garlic paste. Cook until the raw smell goes off.
- Add in the grounded masala (paste), followed by salt and turmeric powder. Cook until the raw smell goes off and they turn dark green in colour.
- Add in the chicken with little salt and cook until the chicken turns pale white in color.
- Add in the rice with little salt and cook until the raw smell goes off.
- Pour in 5 cups of water followed by 2 tsp of lemon juice.
- Pressure-cook for 3 whistles.
- Remove from fire and open the lid when the pressure subsides.
- Serve hot with any raita. I have accompanied it with boiled egg, onion-tomato raita and chicken kebab.
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