Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chicken dum biryani. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chicken dum biryani recipe with step by step pictures. We all love biryani, but when it comes to preparing them most of us, step back because of the tedious process. Hyderabadi Chicken Dum Biryani is a World famous Dish, it is made using chicken which is marinated then cooked and then is added to cooked rice and again.
Chicken dum biryani is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Chicken dum biryani is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken dum biryani using 38 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken dum biryani:
- Get Basmati rice
- Take Chicken
- Get Boiled And Peeled Potatoes
- Get Boiled And Peeled Egg, Optional
- Prepare Onions (sliced finely for the birista)
- Make ready Garlic cloves
- Take Ginger
- Make ready Green chillies (slit lengthwise)
- Prepare Milk
- Make ready Saffron strands
- Get Kewra water
- Prepare Salt
- Get For the marinade :
- Take Fresh Curds
- Prepare Small Tomatoes (cubed)
- Get Turmeric powder
- Make ready Red chilli powder
- Take Cumin powder
- Take Garam /Biryani masala
- Prepare Birista (crispy fried onions)
- Prepare Ginger garlic paste
- Take Salt
- Prepare Homemade Ghee
- Get Whole spices for tempering for the chicken masala :
- Make ready Cloves
- Prepare Cinnamon pieces
- Make ready Green Cardamoms
- Take Black Cardamoms
- Take Black Peppercorns
- Prepare Bay leaves
- Make ready Cumin Seeds
- Make ready Oil
- Make ready Whole spices for the rice :
- Prepare CLoves
- Get Cinnamon pieces
- Prepare Green Cardamoms
- Get Black Peppercorns
- Make ready Cumin seeds
Dum biryani is goodness of rice and meat that comes in layers! Ingredients in Chicken Dum Biryani Recipe: Cooked in dum style, this chicken biryani is infused in saffron milk and cooked in spices such as cardamom, clove, cinnamon and mace. Our Dum Biryani is a one-pot-wonder! Add the double cream and chicken and mix well.
Steps to make Chicken dum biryani:
- To make the Chicken Dum Biryani, first wash the basmati rice and soak in sufficient water for about half an hour.
- Heat water, approximately equal to tripe the quantity of rice and add the whole spices and about three teaspoons salt to it.
- As soon as the water starts boiling, add the drained rice and cook on high to medium heat till almost done but not completely cooked (cook till one grain of rice remains).
- Drain all the rice from the remaining water into a large sieve and keep covered till use.
- In the meantime, boil the potatoes and the eggs and peel them. Halve the potatoes and make vertical slits in the boiled egg.
- Heat the milk and add the saffron strands and keep aside.
- Deep fry the sliced onions till brown and crisp. This is called birista. Reserve half the birista for the marinade and half for layering and garnishing.
- Grind the garlic and ginger to a paste to get about three tablespoons of smooth paste using about two tablespoons for marinade and one for tempering.
- Clean and wash the chicken thoroughly. drain and cut into medium sized pieces. Marinate with the mentioned ingredients.
- In a heavy bottomed pan, heat the oil and add the whole spices. As soon as they splutter add one tablespoon of ginger garlic paste. Saute for a while.
- Next, add the marinated chicken and saute on high flame. Add salt to taste. Cover and cook. When the chicken is almost cooked, add the boiled potatoes, eggs and slit green chillies and mix well.
- When the chicken is fully cooked, open the lid and cook on high flame stirring occasionally till the gravy thickens. Set aside.
- To prepare the dum, first place a thick griddle on the stove top on low flame.
- In the meantime, start the layering for the biryani in a heavy bottomed pan.
- Spread a little oil at the bottom,then a little gravy and then about half the rice over it.
- Cover this with all the chicken gravy and some birista.
- Spread all the remaining rice on top and drizzle some homemade ghee and the Kewra water over it. Now make four vertical holes in the biryani from the top and pour the saffron milk in it. Seal the holes with the rice.
- Spread the remaining birista over it and cover the pan with a foil. Place the lid tightly over it and keep the pan on the hot griddle for dum for about 15 to 20 minutes. For the first seven minutes keep the flame high and then reduce to minimum for the remaining time.
- After the said time, switch off the flame and keep covered for another ten minutes.
- Open the lid and garnish with the remaining birista and halved boiled eggs.
- Serve the Chicken Dum Biryani with some burrani raita and sliced onions and tomatoes by the side!
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