Ingredients:
• 1/2kg Chicken medium size pieces
• 2 Big onions chopped
• 1 Tomato
• 2 Green chillies
• 2 cups Biryani rice or jeeraga samba rice
• Coconut milk-2 cups (milk taken out of 1/2 coconut (medium size)) +2 cups water

For marination
• 1 tbsp Red chili powder
• 1 1/2 tbsp Coriander powder
• 1 tsp Turmeric powder
• 1 tsp Ginger garlic paste
• 1 tbsp Salt
• 1/4 cup (50 ml) Thick curd

For seasoning
• 2 handfuls Mint leaf
• 2 Clove
• 2 Cardamom
• 2pcs Cinnamon
• 2 small pcs Bay leaf
• 1 tsp Fennel seeds
Method:
• Cut the chicken pieces to the required size. Wash well, drain out the water and marinate with the items given in “For Marination”. Let it get marinated for 30 minutes.
• Mean time keep the coconut milk ready. Wash and soak the rice for 10 minutes. Then drain the water completely. In a kadai in a teaspoon of butter or ghee fry the rice till it does not stick to the kadai in medium fire.
• Now keep the kadai or the vessel in which you cook the biryani in the stove. Pour 1 table spoon ghee and 1 table spoon cooking oil and season with the items given in “For Seasoning”.
• Now add the onion, chilies and tomato pieces. Saute for a while and then add the marinated chicken pieces. Saute everything well in medium fire for 2 minutes.
• Now reduce the flame and close the vessel with a lid (If using cooker vessel, close it with a plate) and let the chicken get cooked for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes open the kadai and check whether there is excess water, if so increase the flame and stir for a minute.
• Now add the 2 cups of coconut milk along with two cups of water. Let the mixture come to a boil.
• Now add the salt needed for the rice along with the rice kept ready. Mix everything well.
• In this stage reduce the flame, close the kadai and cook for 7 to 8 minutes(cook till all the water gets absorbed)checking in between so that it does not get burnt.
• In the next stove heat the dosa pan in medium fire. Open the lid after 7 minutes and mix everything well. Let the fire be very low now. Now close the kadai with the hot dosa tawa so that the top portion gets cooked by the heat of the tawa.The heat of the tawa will be there for 5 minutes. If you have another tawa, that can be used next heating side by side. If you dont have one dont worry, Heat this tawa itself and put on top one more time. By the second time the biryani will be rightly cooked.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve along with raitha.
• Thos who dont have the tawa to put on top can keep the vessel on top of the tawa in low flame in that stage.If you cant do that even then add 1/2 cup more water in the beginning and cook.After the water gets absorbed cook for 5 minutes more in low fire stirring in between.