Preparation
Soak basmati rice in water for ½ hour before cooking.
Marinate the chicken with the ingredients mentioned in the marination column. Keep aside for 2 hours.
Heat to 4 tbsp. of oil in a pan. Once hot, add the chicken to it. Cover and cook for 5 minutes.
Then uncover and cook for 15-20 minutes from medium to low heat.
Keep on checking in between, turning each side.
Cook till all the water dries and the chicken is tender and well-cooked.
Heat another wok and add generous amount of oil. Fry the potatoes.
Once done, remove on an absorbent paper.
In same oil, add the sliced onions. Once they turn brown, remove it on absorbent paper.
Take a kadai and add the earlier used oil. Put little fried onions in it (handful). Add tomatoes and ginger-garlic paste.
Add all the ingredients mentioned in the masala column.
Cook on a high flame for 5 minutes and then simmer the gas and cook till a fine masala is made.
Once it is made, add the fried potatoes and the remaining fried onions (crush it by hands and then add, keep some for later garnishing). Add salt.
Mix well and let it cook.
By the time the masala is cooked, the chicken would be done.
Add the chicken to the masala, mix well and let it cook on low heat. Add half the bunch of chopped coriander and chopped mint leaves.
Side by side, heat a charcoal on another gas and make it piping hot. Keep a small foil paper in the middle of the masala and keep the hot charcoal on it.
Add few drops of oil on the coal and cover and keep it as it is for some time. Switch off the gas but don’t uncover it.
Soak the basmati rice for ½ hr.
In the meanwhile, heat a wok and add oil in it. Add Shahi jeera to it.
After that, add water and salt.
Cook till the water starts boiling on high flame.
Now add the soaked and washed rice. Once the rice starts boiling on all the sides, drain the water and start to make the layers of it.
Take a deep wok and add a few tablespoons of oil to the base. Spread it everywhere. Add the first layer of the boiled rice and then the chicken with its gravy. Spread the remaining chopped coriander and mint with green chillies on it.
Top it with the remaining rice, spread a layer of fried onions. Add little orange colour and red colour.
Cover and cook on a medium flame for 5 minutes.
Alongside, heat a charcoal on another gas and once its piping hot, take small piece of foil paper and keep it in the middle of the top layer of rice.
Put the hot charcoal on the foil paper and a few drops of oil on it. Cover and turn the gas to low.
Cook till you see vapour from all the sides.
Once done, mix and serve with raita and papad.