Chicken Biryani

Chicken Biryani is one of the most popular biryanis ordered around. This recipe is about making chicken biryani in Hyderabadi Style with fried onions. Both chicken and rice are going to be flavored separately and then we are going to let the flavors from the chicken diffuse into the rice.

Ingredients
2 cups of Basmati rice

Overnight marination
1 kg chicken
For garam masala powder
Grind 4 cloves
4 cardamom
2 1 inch cinnamon sticks
15-20 black pepper
1 mace
1 star anise
1 tsp cumin seeds

1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1 tbsp green chilli paste
2 tbsp chilli powder
1 tbsp coriander powder
1 cup curd
1 cup fried onion
Chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves

For flavoring rice:
1 mace
1 star anise
2 1 inch cimamon sticks
4 cloves
3 cardamom
10-15 pepper corns
1 tsp shahi jeera
1 tsp fennel seeds