Anjappar Style Chicken Briyani
By: Saraswathi Ganeshan
Published: Monday, July 8, 2013 - 11:33am

Ingredients




Ingredients:
1 lb / 1/2 kg chicken
3 cup basmati rice
1 big onion, thinly sliced
2 big tomato, chopped
4 ~ 5 green chillies, slit lengthwise
2 tbsp oil
2 tbsp ghee
1 handful mint leaves, chopped coarsely
1 handful cilantro, chopped coarsely
1 tbsp lemon juice
For Marination:
1 tbsp red chilli powder
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
Salt to taste
For Seasoning:
1 piece of Cinnamon
4 cloves
2 green cardamom
1 bay leaves

Preparation

1 Method: 2 Preparation: 3 > Wash and clean chicken pieces and marinate the chicken with red chilli powder, ginger garlic paste and salt. 4 > Wash rice for 3 times  and soak it in fresh water for 15 ~ 30 minutes. 5 > Drain and reserve the water for cooking. 6 Cooking: 7 > Heat oil in a pressure pan, add seasoning ingredients and saute for few seconds. 8 > Throw in sliced onion, sauté until it turns transparent and glossy. 9 > Add chopped tomatoes and slit green chilles. Cook until tomatoes become soft and mushy. No tomato chunk should be seen at this stage. 10 >  Transfer Marinated chicken to the onion tomato mixture and cook for 5 ~ 6 minutes until chicken turns to white color. 11 >  Add required amount of water ( i.e. for 1 cup rice, add 1 1/2 cup of water) and  allow it to boil. 12 > Add rice (see notes) and mix well. Throw in chopped mint and cilantro leaves. Mix and adjust salt to taste and allow it to boil vigorously. 13 >  Cover with foil paper( as shown in pic) if you don't have tight lid for the pan. 14 >  Cook for 10 minutes in low heat. or pressure cook it for 1 whistle. 15 >  After 5 minutes or pressure drops, remove the lid and add 1 tsp. of ghee and 1 tbsp. of lemon. Mix gently and serve hot with Raitha. 16 Note: 17 >       I  used the soaked rice directly to the boiling water. If you want you can fry the rice before adding to the chicken mixture. 18 Suggestions: 19 >       Always use ripe tomatoes to this recipe and extra green chilies will enhance the taste. 20 >       This recipe doesn't call for turmeric and curd. If needed you can add a pinch of turmeric powder