Simple & Light Chicken Biryani..

Ingredients:
1. Good quality, strong smelling Basmati Rice 4cups
2. Chicken 1 kg, cut into large pieces, properly rinsed.
3. Onions 6 pieces, chopped into big pieces.
4. Curd, Ginger and Garlic paste 4 tblspns
5. Everest Chicken masala, Biryani masala, Garam masala, Jeera (cumin) powder, Red Chilli powder, Soaf powder, Eliachi powder, Long powder, Cardamom (elaichi) seeds & clove (long) seeds.
6. Refined oil 2/3 tblspns
7. Ghee 2/3 tblspns

Lets cook now...
1. Marinate Chicken with Curd/Yogurt, 2 spoons of salt, 2 spoons of Chicken masala, 2 spoons of Ginger-Garlic paste & keep it aside for an hour or two. You can refrigerate it as well.
2. Soak Rice for an hour. Boil it with water & salt, till almost cooked, not fully cooked. Drain the excess stock and set the rice aside.
3. Heat a kadai in high flame, put 2 tblspns of oil and temper with cumin (jeera) seeds. Optionally Add cardamom and cloves(5-6). Add sliced onions & fry till golden brown. Add Ginger and Garlic paste, 1 tblspns Chicken masala, 2 tblspns Biryani masala, 1 tblspns Garam masala, 2 tblspns Jeera powder, 1 tblspns Red Chilli powder, 1 tblspns Soaf powder, pinch of Eliachi powder, pinch of Long powder, 1 tblspns of turmaric powder. Stir them for 5 mins. Add marinated Chicken with all curd & marinating stuff. Chicken already has salt, so be carefully before adding more salt.
4. Cook till gravy is reduced. Add little water & cook till Chicken is properly cooked & gravy is very thick.
To save time you can put the chicken in cooker & cook for 1/2 minutes.
5. Now take a large flat base Aluminium vessel. Heat it at very low flame, put 2 tblspns of ghee. First form a layer of cooked Chicken & gravy, then cover it with a layer of cooked rice and  sprinkle a little more ghee over it. Prepare such 2/3 pair of layers, the final layer should me of rice. Sprinkle garam masala powder & biryani masala little bit with drops of ghee. Cover with a moist cloth & seal with a lid, put a heavy stone on the lid. Cook for 7-10 min in low flame. Serve with raita of your choice.....