Chicken Lachha Biryani by shireen

                                  Chicken Lachha Biryani


Ingredients
Boneless chicken (cut into juliennes)½ kg
Onion sliced 1 cup
Yogurt 1 cup
Yellow color pinch
Capsicum (cut into juliennes)1
Carrots (cut into juliennes)1
Lemon (cut in round slices)1
Tomato (cut into juliennes)2
Green chilies (length wise sliced)4
Rice (boil with 2 tbsp salt till ¾ done)½ kg
Oil ¾ cup
Mint leaves 15 to 20
Salt 1 tsp heaped
Ginger garlic paste 2 tsp
Kewra water 1 tbsp
White cumin crushed 2 tsp
Chili powder 2 tsp
All spice ½ tsp heaped
Turmeric ½ tsp
Black cumin whole ½ tsp
Chopped coriander leaves 2 tbsp


Method
Heat ¾ cup oil, fry 1 cup onion till light golden, add ½ tsp black cumin with 2 tsp ginger garlic paste, 2 tsp chili powder, 1 tsp salt, ½ tsp turmeric, 2 tsp white cumin seeds and fry adding little water, now add ½ kg chicken juliennes, fry for 5 minutes, add 1 cup yogurt with 1 capsicum, 1 carrots, and 2 tomatoes cut into juliennes. Cook till chicken tender. Remove and add 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves, 4 green chilies, 15 to 20 mint leaves, ½ tsp all spice. In a pan spread one layer of ½ kg boiled rice, then cooked chicken mixture. Spread some hara masala, 1 sliced lemon, top with reaming rice. Lastly add 1 tbsp kewra water mixed with pinch of yellow color, simmer for 15 minutes.