Kolkata style Chicken Biryani

Ingredients

• For rice preparation..
• 300 gm Basmati rice
• 1 Cinnamon stick
• 4 Cloves
• 2 Green cardamom
• 1 Star anise
• 1 Jayatri
• 1 tsp Lemon juice
• to taste Salt
• For chicken preparation..
• 1/2 kg Chicken
• 50 gm Curd
• 3 tsp ginger garlic paste
• 1 big size chopped onion
• 3 tsp turmeric powder
• 2 tsp Red chilli powder
• 1 tsp cumin powder
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 1 bowl Birista (fried onion)
• 3 Eggs
• 3 Boiled & fried potato
• 1 drop Meetha aatar
• 1 tsp Rose water
• 1 tsp keora water
• 1/2 cup Ghee
• To taste Salt
• 4 tbsp oil
• 1 cup wheat flour for coating the pan

Steps

1. Overnight marinate the chicken with salt,ginger garlic paste,3tspn oil, curd,red chilli, turmeric, cumin& coriander powder.
2. Soak rice in water for 15 mins & then boil it with salt, lemon juice,star anise, cinnamon stick, jayatri, cardamom & cloves.
3. Heat oil, add salt & red chilli powder & fry eggs & potatoes in it.
4. After fry take out from oil.
5. Add chopped onion & ginger garluc paste in the same oil & saute it for a while.
6. Add all spices.
7. Add marinated chicken & mix it well with spices.Add some hot water.Cover it & let it cook till boil.
8. Add boiled & fried eggs & potatoes in it to mix with spices.When spices mix with it properly, take out eggs & potatoes from gravy.
9. Now assembling time.Take a heavy bottomed vessel.Put cooked chicken in it.
10. Place one layer of half cooked rice on it.
11. Add biryani masala, ghee, birista, fried eggs & potatoes over it.
12. Cover this layer with rice again.Sprinkle saffron mix milk, rose water, keora water & meethi aatar.Make a wheat dough mixing with water.Cover the vessel with lid & seal it with the wheat dough.
13. Cook it in low flame for at least 20 mins & then switch off the flame.Keep rest for another 15 mins.
14. After that take a plate & serve it with salad & raita.