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Nida Shahrukh

Chicken Tikka Biryani

Wants to celebrate something at home, to invite guests, to cheer up someone, to welcome neighbors’ or just to taste species all goes perfectly-well with a lip-smacking taste of Chicken tikka biryani. Sensational feelings are truly epidemic with the authentic texture of rice with gravy, marinated chicken, and garnished portion all praiseworthy.
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Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 2 hours
Servings: 8 persons
Course: Main Course, Diner, Lunch
Cuisine: Hyderabadi, Indian, Pakistani, Asian
Calories: 372
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

For Boiling Rice
  • 1/2 kg Rice (Sehla or Basmati) parboiled
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 Bay Leaves
  • 2 Star Spice (Badyan Khatal)
  • 1 Cinnamon stick
  • 2 Large Cardamon
  • 5 Cloves
  • 1 Nutmeg
  • 1 tsp Jaiwatri
  • 2 tsp Lemon Juice
For Barbeque Tikka Marination
  • 750 gm Chicken (boneless)
  • 1-1/2 tbsp Garlic Paste
  • 1 tbsp Ginger Paste
  • 4 tsp Lemon Juice
  • 1 tsp Red Chili Powder
  • KachriPowder (amount depend on quality of meat)
  • 1 tsp Black Pepper
  • 1/4 tsp Jaiwatri
  • 1 Nutmeg
  • 4 Cloves
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon Powder
  • 1 tsp Cardamon Powder
  • 1 tsp Cumin (whole roasted)
  • 1 tsp Coriander (whole roasted)
  • Red Chillies (large and dried)
  • Olive Oil as required
For Gravy
  • 3 Onion (finelychopped)
  • 3 Tomatoes (slices)
  • 1/2 kg Yogurt
  • 1 tsp Garlic Minced
  • 1 tsp Ginger Minced
  • 1 tsp Chili Flakes(crushed)
  • 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
  • 1 tsp Red Chili Powder
  • 1 tsp Cumin Powder
  • 1 tsp Coriander Powder
  • 3 Green Chillies(crushed)
For Garnishing
  • 1/4 cup Lemon Juice
  • 1/4 cup Cilantro (Hara Dhaniya)
  • 1/2 bunch Mint Leaves (chopped)
  • 2 Lemon Sliced (finely cut)
  • 6 Dried Plums

Method
 

For Barbeque Chicken Marinate
  1. Grind whole spices as mention above for making tikka masala.
  2. Now wash the chicken thoroughly and clean it. Now start marinating whole chicken with spices.
  3. Now after giving a good mix set aside for at least 2 to 3 hours or overnight with ground spices along with other ingredients mentioned for tikka.
  4. Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a pan and add marinated meat into it after 3 hours of marination.
  5. Now cover it with lid and cook over slow heat till tender and dry. Take it out in a plate or bowl and set aside for a while.
For Gravy
  1. Fry onion in oil, add tomatoes and blend them with yogurt into a smooth paste.
  2. Now heat one tbsp of oil in a pan, fry ginger and garlic paste in it and add the blended gravy.
  3. Cook till it is about to dry, now the remaining spices for gravy above mention thoroughly add now.
  4. Soak the rice in water at least for two hours.
  5. Cook till the mixture come out accurately perfect foam, as oil come out upper surface.
Boiling Rice and Assembling
  1. In a large pan, boil water with all the ingredients above mention in rice making section except lemon slices.
  2. When water comes to boil add the soaked rice into water.
  3. When rice are about to tender, add lemon juice now.
  4. Strain the rice.
  5. In the same pan, drizzles some olive oil, make a layer of rice and then pour some gravy over it.
  6. Now add some cooked tikkas.
  7. Sprinkle a little lemon juice.
  8. Repeat the above mentioned layers.
  9. Garnished with all the ingredients mentioned in for garnished section.
  10. Now take a little piece of coal and burn it under heat of stove.
  11. Wrap it with aluminium foil and leave the top open.
  12. Place this on top of garnished biryani and pour few drops of olive oil on it and immediately cover the pan.
  13. Leave it over low heat flame for 5-7 minutes, smokes will start comes out soon.
  14. Now your tikka biryani is ready now.