Chicken Biryani

Ingredients:
chicken - 1.5 kgs (cut into big pieces),basmati rice - 2.5 cups,onion - 5 (medium),pudhina - 1 bunch,coriander leaves - 1 bunch,cloves - 6 to 7,cinnamon - 1,biriyani leaves - 3 0r 4,ginger - 1 " piece ,garlic - 20 cloves,ghee - 3 tbs,oil - 3 tbs,red chillies - 13(according to your taste), green chillies - 3,coconut milk - 1 cup,salt to taste


Method:
Fry some onion ,chillies and garlic in ghee for 4 mins in medium heat till done.
Allow it to cool. Meanwhile Fry Basmati rice in ghee for 1 mins.
Keep it aside. Grind the fried onion and chillies to a paste.
Make ginger - garlic paste.
Keep the pan on the stove and pour the remaining ghee and oil and after it gets heated put the cloves,cinnamon ,biriyani leaves and fry it.
Put the remaining onion and fry it again.
Now add the chicken pieces and fry for 4 mins.
Add pudhina and corinader leaves into it.
After 4 mins, add the grinded onion paste into it and coconut milk should be added now.
Allow it to fry for another 5 mins. Now add boiled water (measured almost double the amount of the rice ).
Allow it to boil for few mins add turmeric powder and salt to it.
Now add rice into it. Close the lid keep it in medium flame. Cook till rice id done.Serve it hot with Raita or Spicy Kurma.