BBQ Chicken/Chicken Tikka Biriyani

Merry X'Mas.!! Let us celebrate this X'Mas with a wonderful recipe. Not cake; but a delicious biriyani.. BBQ biriyani. Sounds great, Isn't it?

This is me , Hanan , Hasna's elder sis. Actually we 3 sisters, once planned to start and share recipes together a year before and so named this blog after our mom's name; but things got changed upside down that Hasna alone brought it so long.  Now let me start with my much awaited recipe... Many of my friends and cousins asked me about this recipe and here am I dedicating this recipe to them. You can trust blindly on this spicy and delicious recipe of Shereen Aapa.

Ingredients:
Basmati rice 1/2 kg

for marination:
Chicken 1/2 kg
ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp
salt 1 tsp
turmeric 1/2 tsp
chilli powder 1 tsp
garam masala 1 tsp
cumin crushed 1 tsp
lemon juice 2 tbsp
yogurt 2 tbsp
orange red color a pinch
oil 1/2 cup

For masala:
( i don't like too much masala & so used little more than half the quantity. This one is original recipe)

brown onion 1/2 cup
ginger garlic paste 1 tsp
tomato 2 crushed
salt 1/2 tsp
chilli powder 1/2 tsp
yogurt 1/2 cup
coriander leaves 2 tbsp
mint leaves 20
kewra water 1 tbsp
saffron color a pinch
green chilli 6

Method:

1. Marinate chicken for at least an hr. Place a piece of aluminium foil in the chicken bending it like a bowl, then keep a burning coal in that. Pour a tsp of ghee on that burning coal and immediately cover it so that the smoke that come out of the coal should not go in the air... it should merge with the chicken to give it a smoky aroma.. let it remain atleast fr 10 mts.


2. Grill this chicken on a hot tawa/pan. Use little oil.


3. Now heat 1/4cup oil in a pan and saute crushed brown onion in that. Pour a little hot water in that as the onion lost its moisture when fried before and so there is a chance of burning. 


4. Add ginger-garlic paste to it and saute for a minute more.


5. Cook tomatoes in it along with yogurt and all other ingredients except saffron color & kewra water. Add water if needed. I added 1/2 cup of water.


6. Add chicken to it and simmer it for about 5 mts.


7. Boil rice till it is half done. Strain half of the rice at this stage and allow remaining rice till it is perfectly done. 


Dum:


Layer half done rice at the bottom of a deep dish and then place the masala on top of that. Layer the remaining rice on top of that. Mix saffron color in warm milk and add it here & there while layering and also the kewra water. You can substitute rose water with kewra water.Keep it in Dum for half an hour.


Delicious BBQ Biriyani is ready to serve !!

Note: 


Deep fry onions for brown onions.
You can crush tomatoes in food processor so that it cooks easily.
Few pieces of grilled chicken can be skewed in a wooden skewer and place it on top of dum.


LINKING THIS TO Royal Feast Biriyani

And to Sweet Heat Chilli Challenge -Let's rock Indian