• Firstly, take a cooking vessel, into it add oil and heat it.
• Add cinnamon sticks, cardamoms, cloves and saute it.
• Add sliced onions, saute, add green chillies, stir well.
• Cook until onions are slightly soft.
• Add ginger garlic paste and saute for few minutes.
• Add chicken pieces into it and roast well.
• Add salt, turmeric powder and roast until chicken leaves oil.
• Add chopped tomatoes, mix and cook until they get soft.
• Add dried red chilly paste, mix and cook for few minutes.
• Add beaten yogurt, mix and cook for few minutes.
• Add garam masala powder, black pepper powder, chopped coriander leaves and mix well.
• Add little water and cook until the chicken gets tender.

For the rice:

• Meanwhile when the chicken is cooking start preparing the steps of rice.
• For that, take a cooking vessel, add water generously, add salt, cinnamon stick, caraway seeds, cloves.
• Add little oil into the water and boil the water.
• Add the washed rice into it.
• Cook until it is 60-70% done.
• Strain the rice.

For the dum:

• Add the strained rice onto the chicken curry that is cooked.
• Mix the chicken well with the rice.
• Add chopped mint leaves all over the rice and chicken.
• Add a cup of water all over the rice.
• Add ghee and lemon juice all over.
• Add little oil all over the rice.
• Cover the lid tightly with any weight or seal it with chapathi dough.
• Switch on the stove.
• Place a tawa/gridle.
• Dum the biryani for ten minutes on high flame.
• Reduce the flame to sim and dum the biryani for another 15 minutes.
• Serve the biryani with raita or any curry!!!