Making briyani in pressure cooker recipe

  Making briyani is not much a difficult task; especially when it is in pressure cooker. Here is the easy and quick recipe of chicken biriyani in pressure cooker.

Ingredients:

•     Chicken-1/2 kg
•     Oil+ghee- ¼cup (or less)
•     Whole garam masala pieces-few
•     Onion thinly sliced-3
•     Tomato thinly sliced-2
•     Ginger, garlic paste- 1 1/2 tbsp
•     Green chilly slit- 2 nos
•     Curd-2tbsp
•     Turmeric powder-1/2tsp
•     Chilly powder-1tsp
•     Coriander powder- 1/2 tsp
•     Pepper powder-1tsp
•     Garam masala-1tbsp
•     Carrot chopped-2tbsp
•     Mint leaves chopped-one handful
•     Coriander leaves-one handful
•     Lemon juice-1tbsp
•     Salt-to taste
•     Oil-2tbsp
•     Basmati rice -2cup
•     Boiling water-3 ¾ cup
•     Salt-to taste

Preparation:

•      Soak the rice in water for just 10 minutes.
•     In the pressure cooker  heat of oil and add whole garam masala pieces.
•     Add onion in to it and sauté until golden brown in color.
•     Add ginger, garlic paste and green chilly in to it.
•     When the raw smell goes off; add all the powders one by one mixing well after each addition.
•     Add chopped tomatoes in to it.
•     When the tomatoes are sauted and mashed well add chicken pieces, coriander leaves, mint leaves and salt.
•     Add curd in to it and mix well.
•     Cover the lid  (not with whistle )and cook about 15 minutes (or until the chicken gets cooked by its half) in a low-medium flame (open the lid often and stir the chicken often).
•     After that add drained rice along with 3 ¾ cup of boiling water, chopped carrots, lemon juice and enough salt in to the chicken masala.
•     Mix well, cover the lid of pressure cooker and cooks on medium-high flame for just one whistle (switch off the flame quickly when the whistle comes).
•     Open the lid only after the pressure releases completely by itself.
•     Give a nice mix and serve it hot along with raitha and pickle.