Bombay Biryani Recipe

Ingredients

• Meat (mutton or chicken)                     1 kg
• Basmati rice                                            1 kg
• Potatoes                                                  4 large
• Lemon                                                     4
• Cloves                                                      4
• Onion chopped                                       4
• Green chilies                                           6
• Green cardamom                                   6
• Black cardamom                                    6
• Tomatoes chopped                                6
• Dried plum                                              1 cup
• Hot milk                                                  1 cup
• Oil                                                            1 cup
• Yogurt                                                      1 cup
• Mint leaves                                             1 bunch
• Black cumin seeds                                  1 tsp
• Chili powder                                           1 tbsp
• Yellow color                                            ¼ tsp
• Coriander powder                                  2 tbsp
• Ginger garlic paste                                 1 ½ tbsp
• Salt                                                          to taste

Methods

1. Wash 1 kg chicken, marinate with 1 cup yogurt,  1 ½ tbsp ginger garlic paste
2. Add 1 tbsp chili powder, 2 tbsp coriander powder
3. Add  juice of 2 lemon, 1 bunch of mint leaves, 6 green chilies, 1 cup plum and salt to taste for 30 minutes.
4. Heat 1 cup oil in pan, add 4 chopped onion and fry till golden brown
5. Remove half of the fried onion and spread on a paper. Now add the marinated meat to pan.
6. Fry well till water dries.
7. Boil potatoes in steam, cut each into 4 pieces and fry in oil.
8. Also cut tomatoes in four pieces each.
9. Fry tomato pieces and add with fried potatoes to the chicken mixture.
10. Boil 1 kg basmati rice with mint leaves, 6 green chilies, 6 black pepper
11. Add  4 cloves, salt to taste and water as required till half done.
12. Now drain out water and keep aside.
13. Grease another pan and make a layer of boiled rice.
14. Top with chicken mixture, again top with remaining boiled rice.
15. Sprinkle the leftover fried onion.
16. Dissolve ¼ tsp yellow color in 1 cup hot milk.
17. Pour on top of boiled rice. Also pour juice of 2 lemons and simmer for 10 minutes. Serve hot.