Chicken Berry Pulao | How to make Chicken Berry Pulao

How to make Chicken Berry Pulao

1. Soak rice in water for about 45 minutes.
   
2. Dry roast red chilies
   
3. Dry roast other whole spices
   
4. Grind red chillies and spices together in grinder to make spice mix.
   
5. Now cut onion in long pieces and fry them till golden brown. Keep some onion aside for further use.
   
6. Now add more ghee in pan and add half of the spice mix and roast for a while and then add chicken pieces and salt and mix
   
7. Cook chicken till tender. And keep aside in large plate when done.
   
8. Meanwhile boil water in a vessel and cook rice till half done. Add a teaspoon of ghee and salt to water while boiling.
   
9. In another pan, line cut potatoes to base, and add half done rice with some water in it.
   
10. Cook till the rice is fully done and fluffy
    
11. Now, in the same pan in which we cooked chicken, again add some ghee. Add remaining spice mix, ginger garlic paste, onion and tomato puree.
    
12. Add salt and some sugar and cook till raw smell goes.
    
13. In one bowl, take a tablespoon of ghee, add saffron strands, cranberries, sliced pistachios and microwave for 30 seconds till ghee melts.
    
14. Add rose essence to ghee mixture.
15. Now we need to assemble our pulao. In the same large dish where we took chicken, add rice to other side, pour the gravy over chicken and rice, and finally garnish with fried onion and ghee cranberry mixture.
    
16. Mix gravy and rice with chicken pieces well while serving