Cooking Biryani!!

Its just that it was saturday and after two days of veg food I thought of trying out something different and something good to eat. Not that I cook very often, but just in case if u dont like the bland US food u have to cook on ur own. Off course with some help from my roomie also.. We had this dish in our mind "Shahi Chicken Hyderabaadi Biryani".

So we started around 8:30 in the evening. First we saw a video on the net how to prepare as we had a rough idea of it. So we collected all the materials, cleaned up chicken and started preparing for the marinade.. We did add proper quantity of spices and prepared the marinade. By this time it was 9:15 pm. There are many ways u can prepare this dish but we followed on among them as my colleague in kitchen suggested this one. After preparing marinade we had to prepare the rice half cooked. Se we kept that aside for cooking. Then we realised we didnt have proper container to have all these and we shud buy some aluminium tray and we bought also..

The clock was showing as 10:00... Then we thought we shud start cooking the chicken and we prepared the contents and waited for the rice to get half cooked. After few mins we kept that inside the oven after searching for the right temperature and time in the net..Since many experts had given their own comments and their own way of cooking we calculated and fixed the temp as 200*F and time as 1 hr...By this time it was 10:45.

After one hour we opened the tray and realised that rice is not cooked properly since it was on the top layer over the chicken layer. So we increased the temp and reduced the time. Forgot to tell in the beginning only In between preparing this dish we were watching the Kannada Movie "Mungaaru Male" as my roomie wanted to watch one kannada movie. Although the subtitles was there he couldnt catch up with that speed, so in between I was translating few dialogues.

Coming back where we had left the chicken, after like 20 mins we again checked..its the same condition again. The time was running like anything and it is 12:20...The hunger devta was knocking our stomach. Finally we decided to separate the chicken pieces out and cook only the rice, since pieces got cooked properly as it was in bottom layer..We added some water to the rice and tried to cook it. Somehow it got sticky kind of thing with constant stirring we were able to cook rice finally. Later we mixed both rice and chicken pieces and the time was exactly 1:00 AM.

Even murghi would have laughed on us seeing wat we prepared and the way we prepared. Remember we started with an Idea of preparing "Shahi Chicken Hyderabaadi Biryani" and the final product was "Chicken Pongal" :)) But the taste was good just that we have to adjust for it.

And we had a brilliant idea of making this as a video on put it on YouTube. Just that it will not be a short clip, but it will be complete Hindi movie kind of thing. what say ;)