Biryani - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 lb. meat or chicken, cut in pieces
1/2 lb. Bhasmathi rice (long grain rice)
1/2 c. thick yogurt
1 big onion, chopped in thin slices
6 tsp. ghee or oil
2 sticks cinnamon
4 cloves
1 cardamon
1 tsp. paste of ginger and garlic
2 green chillies
1/2 tsp. chili powder
1/2 bunch mint and coriander (cilantro) leaves

Preparation

Marinate meat or chicken in thick yogurt for 1/2 hour.
Fry clove, cinnamon and cardamon in oil.
Add slit green chillies and onion.
Fry until onion is well cooked, then add mint, cilantro, ginger and garlic paste and 1/2 teaspoon of chili powder.
Fry well.
Add salt (to taste) and meat with curds; cook for 20 minutes (lid closed).
Add rice and twice the quantity of water.
(If rice is 1 cup, then add 2 cups of water.)
Cook for 5 minutes on high flame in open container.
Reduce flame, close container and cook for 5 minutes.
Open after 20 minutes and it is ready to be served.