Chicken Biryani

Most biryanis take time to prepare and cook, but the result is well worth the little extra trouble. My biryanis are not, I must add, authentically Indian; they have been influenced by Indonesian attitudes and techniques. This chicken biryani is a quick version, but delicious for all that. If you gather together all the ground ingredients in a single bowl before you actually settle down to cook, you will feel you are halfway there already.