Soak rice in water for two hours before boiling them
In a gauze piece tie all spices mentioned in “For Boiling” section except salt
Take water in a pan, place the spice gauze in it and add salt and boil it
When Water comes to boil, add the soaked rice. Boil them till they are tender
Add 3-4 Tablespoon lemon juice and boil till the rice are almost done and strain them
Preparing boneless chicken incase of making biryani with boneless chicken
In chicken add 1 Egg, 1 Tablespoon corn flour, 1/2 teaspoon Salt and 1 teaspoon Black pepper and mix well
Fry them in oil over high heat for 2-3 minutes
For Preparing Gravy
Fry finely sliced onions till golden, take them out in a blender and blend them with 1/2 Kg yogurt
In the remaining oil, add ginger garlic paste and chicken with bones and add blended gravy in it and cook till the chicken is done
Incase of using boneless chicken fry ginger garlic paste, add blended gravy to it and when gravy is about to dry add prepared boneless chicken that is mentioned in above section
Add all the spices mentioned in “Spices” section in the end so that you can get maximum flavors. By overcooking the spices the flavors will be reduced.
Cook a little, if you want to add readymade spices then add don’t use the spices mentioned in “Spices” section
Assembling
You can either assemble the biryani in a pan or in a dish
Drizzle some oil in Pan or butter the dish
Layer half of the rice in the pan or dish
Pour half of the gravy over it
Sprinkle some oil, lemon juice, coriander leaves, fried onions and mint leaves
Spread rest of the rice over it and then rest of the gravy over the layer of rice
Garnish with coriander leaves,mint leaves, lemon slices and fried onions. Pour some lemon juice and drizzle some oil. Add few drops of yellow color
Place your pan over low heat for 3 to 4 minutes as rice are almost done OR if you have arranged it in a dish then at the time of serving place the dish in preheated oven for 10-15 minutes. They will be warm and done.