Chicken Biryani with a Difference

This is the way my mom prepares biryani. She cooks the chicken in coconut milk & uses the stock or the masala water as I call it to cook the rice.
It tastes awesome.

Chicken Biryani with a Difference

Ingredients:
Chicken: 500gms
Basmathi rice: 2 cups
Garlic paste: 2tbsp
Ginger paste: 1tbsp
Red chilli powder: 2tsp
Coriander powder: 31/2tsp
Cumin powder: 1/2tsp
Black pepper powder: 1/2tsp
Turmeric powder: 1/4tsp
Coconut milk: 1 cup
Salt
Onion: 2 medium size
Mint/Pudina: 3tbsp
Cloves: 4
Cinnamon: 2 pieces of 1" each
Cardamom: 2
Dried Flower Pods (Marati Mokku): 2
Fennel seeds: 1/2tsp
Staranise: 2
Bay leaf: 1
Green chillies: 4
Oil: 4tbsp
Ghee: 1tbsp

Method:
In a pressure cooker add the cleaned chicken pieces, salt (required for the rice should be added now), turmeric powder,
red chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, black pepper powder, garlic paste, ginger paste, coconut milk (2nd extract, just the consistency of buttermilk) & 1 cup of water.
After putting weight, cook for 5 minutes. Switch off the hob. Rest it for 10 minutes & then open the cooker. Reserve the stock (masala water) & the cooked chicken pieces.

In a pressure pan add the oil & ghee then add the whole spices, allow it to crackle.

Add the onion chopped lengthwise, add a little bit of salt required for saute'ing the onion. Saute' till the onion becomes golden brown.
Add the mint leaves & give a stir. Then add the slit green chillies. Saute' for sometime.
Add the washed rice, saute' till the rice turns translucent. Then add the stock. If the stock is not double the amount of rice then add water to make it double.
Cook till the rice is 3/4th cooked then add the chicken pieces, close with a lid. Simmer & allow it to cook for 10 minutes with the weight on.
Rest it for 10 minutes. Serve hot with raita.

Tips:
How to extract coconut milk?
Grate 1/2 coconut & grind it. Put the ground paste in a sieve & the milk extracted is the first extract.
Add water to the  ground coconut & grind again. The milk extracted from this makes the second extract.