Recipe: Perfect Chicken Dum Biryani

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Chicken Dum Biryani. 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 Each of the variation being loyal to its regional history. Down south in most regions like Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Chicken Dum Biryani Recipe is one of the best ways to make biryani and mind you, it is full of very distinct flavours. You can cook Chicken Dum Biryani using 25 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken Dum Biryani

  1. It's For of chicken marination--.
  2. You need 500 gms of chicken.
  3. It's 3 tbsp of curd.
  4. Prepare 3 of onions finely chopped.
  5. You need 2 of tomatoes finely chopped.
  6. Prepare 2 tbsp of ginger garlic paste.
  7. Prepare 5-6 of green chillies (paste).
  8. You need 2 tbsp of red chilli powder.
  9. It's 1 tbsp of lemon juice.
  10. You need 1 tbsp of chicken biryani masala.
  11. It's as per taste of Salt.
  12. Prepare For of Steamed Rice.
  13. It's 2 cups of basmati rice.
  14. It's 4 cups of water.
  15. Prepare 1 of bay leaf.
  16. It's 1 of cinnamon stick.
  17. It's 2-3 of cardamons.
  18. You need 2-3 of black pepper corns.
  19. You need to taste of Salt.
  20. You need For of Dum Seasoning-.
  21. Prepare 2 tbsp of pure ghee.
  22. It's 2 tbsp of fried onions.
  23. You need 2 tbsp of finely chopped coriander.
  24. It's 2 Tablespoons of finely chopped mint leaves.
  25. Prepare 3 tbsp of saffron flavored milk.

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. The succulent spicy chicken cooked with yoghurt and homemade Biryani Masala, then layered with fragrant Basmati rice, fried onion, mint, and coriander leaves give you a delightful rice dish to enjoy with the whole family!

Chicken Dum Biryani step by step

  1. For chicken marination - Wash the chicken pieces well with water and strain the water completely.Add ginger garlic paste,red chilli powder, green chilli paste,salt and chicken biryani masala and mix well. Add finely chopped onions and tomatoes..
  2. Add beaten yogurt and lemon juice and mix well. Add 1 tsp Pure Ghee over it and mix well. Keep it aside for 1 hour.
  3. For Steam Rice - Wash basmati rice and soak it for about 1 hour. Take a cooking pot, add 4 cups water, add salt as per taste, bay leaf, cinnamon stick, cloves, black peppercorns, cardamom. Bring the water to a boil..
  4. When the water starts boiling, add the soaked rice into it. Cook the rice for about 10 minutes until it is three fourth done. Strain the water completely and keep the half done rice aside..
  5. For cooking chicken - Take a pressure cooker, add the marinated chicken. Cover the cooker with lid and Saute this well on medium flame for about 30 minutes..
  6. Procedure To Give The Dum: In a cooking pot, add pure ghee and spread it all over the base. Add a layer of rice evenly and add the cooked chicken evenly..
  7. Then add mint leaves,fried onions, coriander leaves.Make small holes in all 4 corners using back side of spoon and randomly add 1 tbsp saffron flavoured milk. To give partial Orange color to biryani..
  8. Repeat the layers twice. Lastly layer the biryani with fried onions, finely chopped coriander and mint leaves Add saffron flavored milk(2 saffron strands added into the 1/4th cup of milk to get orange red color). Add pure ghee into it..
  9. Place a small steel bowl in middle of this biryani with a burnt coal and add 1 tsp pure ghee on this. Immediately cover it with lid to give it smoky flavor to biryani..
  10. Now with prepared wheat dough, seal the lid with cooking pot tightly. Switch on the flame, put the cooking pot onto the flame. Dum the biryani on low flame for about 20 to 25 minutes and serve hot..

Let's jump to the recipe to see how I make my Chicken Dum Biryani. Home ยป Chicken Dum Biryani Chicken dum biryani at home: Jump to Recipe. Chicken dum biryani is a very popular non-vegetarian dish that is available and most served in all the restaurants that serve non-veg dishes. It is also one of the sought out dishes for any event or function in India because of its rich flavor. Chicken dum biryani is a ever green classic that needs no introduction in parts of countries like Persia, India and others!