Chicken Biryani

 required things 

chicken  - 250gms (with bones or without bones)

basmati rice  - 1 1/2 cup 

onoin  – 1 full

green chillies  – 6

tomato  1 big

corriander

cloves  – 9

cardamon  – 2

cinamom stick  – 1 long piece

bay leaves  – 1

chicken masala powder  – 3 spoons

tumeric  – 1/2 spoon

salt according to your taste

red chilli powder  – 1 spoon

ginger garlic paste  – 2 spoons

ghee  – 2 poons

method for preparing

   1. Take 4 spoons of oil in a skillet and add ghee to that. 

  2. Now add all the spices that are specified adove, one after the other. 

  3. Fry them for 2 minutes so that we get good aroma of spices. 

  4.  Now add onion and green chillies  that are cut into vertical pieces.

  5.  Fry them for 5-7 minutes and add ginger garlic paste.

  6. Then add tomato,red chilli powder,salt,turmeric powder and chicken masala powder.

  7. Now add the chicken pieces.

  8. Now fry them till the water is absorbed  

  9. Start cookin the rice in rice cooker adding 2 cups of water.

  10. After all the water in chicken is absorbed add the mixture to the rice that is cooking.

  Now when biryani is done just mi well  without breaaking rice so that spices are equally distributed. You can have this with onion raita or with mutton soup.

         after it is cooked add corriander and mix well carefull with oput breaking rice.You can have it with onion raita os with mutton soup.

Pongal

required things

rice – 1/2 cup

onions – 1/2 onion

ginger garlic paste – 1/2 spoon

green chillies – 2

cloves – 7

cinamon stick – 1/2

black pepper – 1/4 spoon

pesara pappu (yellow moong dal) split   – 1/4 cup

yogurt

salt according to your taste

method for preparation of pongal

                 Soak  pesarapappu for 1/2 hr before you start cooking.

  1. First cut onions and green chillies into long pieces.

  2. Take oil in a pan and add cloves,cinamon,onions and green chillies.

  3. Fry them for 2 minutes and add the soaked split pesara pappu (yellow moong dal).

  4. Now add the ginger garlic paste,salt and black pepper.

  5. Now add rice and water into the above mixture in ratio of 1:2(i.e if you add 1 cup rice add 2 cups water) and pressure cook it for 2 whisltes.

  Now pongal is ready. Goes well with onion raitha or plain yogurt.