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Hyderabadi Pudina biryani
Ingredients:
1 kg. chicken/mutton pieces
1 tbsp garlic-ginger paste
4 tbsp lime juice
1 tbsp salt
1/2 bunch pudina/mint
1 bunch coriander (mint & coriander in 1:2 ratio)
2 tbsp dessicated coconut
1 handful roasted peanuts
1 tbsp coriander seeds
1/2 tsp jeera/cumin
5-6 peppercorns
1/2 tsp haldi/turmeric pwd
1/2 onion
2 red chillies or 2-3 green chillies
6 cloves garlic
1/2 inch ginger
2 tbsp ghee/clarified butter
1 large chopped onion
1 inch cinnamon stick
4-5 cardamoms
Rice (about 2 cups for 3-4 ppl) - washed & drained
Salt to taste
2-3 bayleaves
A mix of 1 small chopped & fried onion, roasted/fried nuts & raisins, chopped coriander/cilantro and 1/4 cup lime juice
3 medium potatoes - peel skin off & cut in half (optional)
2-3 boiled eggs (optional)
Method

1. Mix ingredients 1-4 and leave to marinate for 4-8 hrs.
2. Grind ingredients 5-16 with some water to a smooth paste.
3. In the pressure cooker, heat ghee, fry onions, cinnamon stick, elaichis/cardamom and then add the ground masala little by little - frying well.
4. Then add chicken pieces & potatoes and stir well, add salt, fry well for few mins, tossing around gently.
5. Add 1.5 glasses water and wait till it boils - close and pressure cook upto 1 whistle.
6. Separate the water from the cooker and use this water with the water you would cook the rice in (rice should be half the quantity of total water used).
7. Add salt and bay leaves to rice water.
8. When rice is done, make alternate layers of rice and the chicken, rice at the bottom & top.
9. For each layer sprinkle a bit of the mix described in ingredient 24 above, ending right on top.
10. Close and steam for lil time on low flame