Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken dum biryani. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chicken dum biryani recipe can be prepared in two ways, kacha (kachi) Method and Pakki Method. In the Kachi method of making biriyani, the raw ingredients are just marinated and placed at the bottom of a utensil and layered with partially cooked rice, saffron etc. Sealed & cooked on a slow dum process, trapping the steam inside for even cooking.
Chicken dum biryani is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Chicken dum biryani is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken dum biryani using 21 ingredients and 19 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken dum biryani:
- Take 500 g chicken
- Get 500 g basmati rice
- Take 1 bunch coriandor
- Prepare 1 bunch mint
- Make ready 6 green chillies
- Get 2 tbsp lemon juice
- Make ready 1 cup curd
- Get 2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- Take to taste salt
- Get 6 green cardamom
- Get 2 cinnamon sticks
- Prepare 6 black pepper corn
- Take 2 Bay leafs
- Get 4 cloves
- Take 1 tbsp red chili powder
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric
- Make ready 2 mace blades
- Make ready 1/2 cup oil
- Prepare 1/4 cup fried onions
- Make ready 1 tsp cumin powder
- Get 1 tbsp coriander powder
The most important of which comes from the very many spices like cardamom, cinnamon, cloves that are added to it. These spices give the biryani a tempting aroma that can be smelt from metres away. One of the major aspects of. Cooking the Chicken Masala for making Hyderabadi style chicken dum biryani Heat ghee in a heavy pan.
Instructions to make Chicken dum biryani:
- Wash and drain the chicken nicely.
- Slice onions and deep fry them and keep aside.
- Now make a powder of all the whole spices listed above.and marinade the chicken.
- Now make a fine paste of green chillies,mint and coriandor and apply to chicken, and also add curd lemon juice and oil to it and mix well with your hands making sure every piece is coated nicely.
- Add some fried onions too and give it a nice mix and keep the marinated chicken in refrigerator for 2 hours.
- Now take the rice and wash it 2/3 times and sock it for 1 hour.
- Now heat some water in vessel around 6 cups,and add whole spices to it.
- 4 cloves,6 green cardamoms,1 cinnamon,2 Bay leafs 1 black cardamom and 1 tsp shahi jeera and salt around 4 tbsp.
- Once water starts boiling add 1 tsp oil and rice to it.
- Cook rice till 70 %. and drain the water completely.
- Now assembling the biryani.
- Add a layer of marinated chicken,and sprinkles some friend onions, chopped mint and coriandor.
- Now add the layer of rice and again sprinkle some fried onions chopped mint and coriandor
- Second layer of rice same as above
- Add saffron milk on top, u can also add some ghee or clarified butter, it's optional.but if added it enhances the taste
- Now cover the pot with lid. and seal it with whole wheat dough or u can put some weights on top of the lip.to prevent escape of stem.
- Now cook the biryani for 5 mints on high flame. after 5 mints. lift the pot. place the girdle and put the pot back on girdle and lower the heat to slow. and cook for about 30 mints.
- After 30 mints your biryani is ready to serve. but do not hurry to open the lid. switch off the falme and wait for 10 more minutes and then open the lid and enjoy your fresh home made delicious chicken dum biryani..
- U can garnish it with some fried onions and chopped mint and coriander leaves, serve with curd raita. and a lemon.
Heavy pan is necessary as we will put the Hyderabadi style chicken dum biryani for "dum" later in the same pan. Add in the marinated chicken to the pan. Keep the flame on medium and cover the pan with a lid. Chicken Dum Biryani is a slow cooking process and this process is very essential to bring the perfect flavors out of the dum biryani. It is a Dum method and it is called so as the chicken marinade and the rice is placed inside the cooking pot and is tightly sealed with a chapathi dough and cooked by not letting the steam come out.
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