ALOO, CHOLA AND CHANA BIRYANI

ALOO, CHOLA AND CHANA BIRYANI
INGREDIENTS
3- 4 cups Rice cooked [ with some salt, 2 cloves,
1 bay leaf, 1 cardamom n a small piece cinnamon].
Also need:
1-2 Potatoes boiled,

1\ 4 cup Chola boiled,
1\ 4 cup Red gram chana.
For the gravy, grind to a paste..
1 Cut Onion,
2- 3 Tomatoes,
3- 4 tomatoes,
1-2 green chilly,
1 tsp Ginger n Garlic paste
1\2 tsp Turmeric powder,
1 tsp Red Chilly powder,
1 tsp Shahi Biryani masala,
1\2 tsp Garam masala.
Salt to taste.
METHOD
1 While cooking rice add few cloves, cinnamon stick, bay leaf 

   and cardamom.
  Add the spices also add some salt.
  Allow the rice to cool down.
2 Grind in a mixer jar the tomato, onion, garlic and all
   the above mentioned to a fine paste.
3 Put a pan to heat, add oil and the paste and stir until it 

   leaves the side of the pan.
  This is the gravy part for this biryani.
  Check the salt.
  Tip: One is add 2 tsp sugar, if wish to lessen , sourness of the tomatoes.
  If want less spicy then also avoid the green chilly
  and red chilly powder.
 In another pan take 1 tsp oil and add the boiled, cut potato pieces, also

 add boiled chola n chana.

Also sprinkle salt, red chilly powder n little chaat
masala.
Either layer and assemble the biryani, as shown in
the picture. The middle layer is gravy on it potatoes,
chola and chana with a layer of rice on it.
or
Just mix the cooked rice, gravy and boiled chana, chola, potatoes.
Serve with a Raita and Papad.