Chicken Biriyani

This is Keerthana's favourite food. Earlier she loved to eat any chicken biryani, but now a days she is not at all eating the store bought biryani. My daughter and my son loves this biryani. It's very funny how they eat it though. Vishruth always finishes the rice first, leaving the chicken pieces on the side, but Keethu always finishes the chicken pieces first, then goes for the rice.

Ingredients:

Cinnamon- 2 sticks

Cloves-4

Bay leaves- 3

Elaichi- 3

Onion -2 large

Tomato- 3

ginger garlic pst-3 tsp

Green chilly-4

Basmathi rice - 3 cups

Coconut milk - 3/4 cup

Cilantro- 3/4 cup

Mint - 2-3 strings leaves

salt to taste

Oil - 1/3 cup

Chicken-2 lbs

Curd- 1 cup

Ginger garlic pst- 2tsp

Turmeric pwdr- 1/2 tsp

Chilly pwdr-3/4 tsp

Coriander pwdr-1 1/2 tsp

Shan bombay biryani masala-2tsp

Salt

Wash the chicken and combine everything together from curd till salt and marinate it for 1hr, or we can leave it overnight for marination. If you are in a hurry you can cook it without marinating :).  If you can't find Shan Bombay biriyani masala just add any other biriyani masala 1/2 tsp and increase the chilly powder to 1 tsp and coriander pwdr to 2 tsp.

In a pressure cooker pour oil, add whole garam masalas, onion, and saute it well. Then add ginger garlic paste and saute it and add tomatoes then saute it. Now add chicken and cook for a few mins.  Now, add the coconut milk and water(combined 4 1/2 cups).  When it starts boiling add rice.  Add salt and cilantro, cover the lid and pressure cook for 2 whistles. Serve it hot with raitha, and enjoy!

Keerai Masiyal

Ingredients:

Spinach - 1 bunch/packet
Green chillies - 10
Onion - 1 medium
Garlic - 2-4 pods
Coconut grated - 1 tblsp (optional)
Salt to taste
Water - 1/2 cup

1. Add all the ingredients in the pressure cooker and add 1/2 cup of water.

2. Pressure cook for 1 whistle
3. Remove the contents from the cooker and grind it with coconut in the mixer.

Serve it with steamed rice and ghee!