Hyderabadi Biryani

This dish is very famous in Hyderabad.It is usually done with lamb but I tried with chicken. This is a rrrealll spicy dish.
Preparation time: 3 hrs.
Working time: 1 hr.
Ingredients:
Lamb/ chicken: 1 kilo ( cut into medium sized pieces)
Basmati rice: 1/2 kg.
Onions: 4 medium ( finely chop)
Coriander leaves: 1 big bunch ( finely chop)
Mint leaves: 1 small bunch ( finely chop)
Ginger- garlic : 2 tbsp
Red chili powder: 3 tbsp
Green chili: 4
Milk: half a cup
Lemon: 2
Saffron: a pinch
Cloves: 8
Ghee/ butter: 2 tbsp
Cinnamon: 1"
Cardamom: 6
Caraway seeds: 1/2 tsp
Pepper: 1 tsp
Bay leaves:2
Oil: 5 tbsp
Method:
Heat 3tbsp of oil in pan. Add onions and saute. When they are done, keep them aside.
Marinate chicken with the following ingredients for 2 hrs:
Ginger- garlic, Salt, Red chili powder, half a bunch of coriander, full bunch of mint leaves, green chillies, lemon juice, cardamom- 4, Cloves-6, Cinnamon, Caraway seeds, pepper and fried onions.
After 2 hrs, heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan, and add chicken to it. Let it cook on medium heat. Keep stirring now and then. This curry alone tastes good with plain rice.
Soak saffron in milk.
In one more heavy bottomed pan, pour 8 glasses of water. Let it boil.
When it boils,add cardamom, cloves, bay leaves, little salt and then rice.
When the rice is 2/3rds done,drain the remaining water and pour the rice on a wide bottomed vessel. Let the rice cool a little.
Take a baking dish, grease it well with ghee/ butter.
Spread rice on it as a layer, cooked chicken over the top of it as a second layer and cover this with rice.Do this until chicken and rice are completely covered but the top layer must be rice.
Keep the gravy separate if desired. Later we can serve biryani with rice.
Now, sprinkle milk and saffron over the rice.
Spread the remaining coriander leaves over the top of the rice. Add 1 tbsp of ghee/ butter.
Cover it and keep it on the oven at 300 F until it is done. That might take 10- 15 min.
Or this can also be kept on stove using a heavy bottomed pan.
Serve hot with raita.
Raita is basically curd and chopped onions with salt. We can add grated carrot and cucumber too.