Chicken Biryani from Leftover Chicken Curry

For the past seven years, I have learnt various non-veg dishes but my all time favourite is the Chicken Biryani. And I do not use the same type of chicken in this either. This actually gives you a different taste everytime and believe me, it turns out great. When we were in UK, all our British friends would come home for dinner and ask for me to make a biryani. After chicken tikka, that surely is the national dish there. One of my friends husband worked for a good Indian restaurent and he used to say that the most popular rice dish was certainly Biryani. So I will try to give you my recipe for this delicious dish and you can try it out and let me know how it turned out.

Unlike all the other recipes, it's not very straight forward as the chicken you will be using for this varies. I tend to make a biryani at home the next day after I have made a chicken curry. So it is indeed made from the leftover chicken curry from the previous day. Therefore there are some rules that one must follow before I start narrating the recipe.

1. If your chicken curry is spicy then do not add any more spice to the biryani. Just skip the spices part I will give in the next point to add in the oil. If on the other hand your chicken curry is mild, you might need to add some extra spice to make it as spicy as you like.
   
   


2. If your chicken curry is dry (it happens when people eat more curry and only the chicken pieces are left.) then I would suggest making a simple curry like on oil, add some onions and spice. Fry it till it becomes golden and then add chicken and fry some more. Now on this add little tomato puree and water and check the salt. If needed add more salt. I tend to use spices like biryani masala for this instead of any other Indian spices. So I add around one to two tsp of biryani masala to chicken and make a gravy.
   
   


3. If you have made a chicken tikka, even that's fine as you can do the same thing and add some gravy to it. You can also make a gravy for barbequed chicken.