How to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Chicken Dum Biryani
by Harriett Briggs
Chicken Dum Biryani
Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chicken dum biryani. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chicken Dum Biryani is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Dum Biryani is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chicken dum biryani using 50 ingredients and 31 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Dum Biryani:
Prepare For Ingredients for Chicken preparation
Get 1 kg Chicken with bones
Get 3 chopped Onions
Take 2 big Onion beresta(fried onion) from onions
Take 2 cups plain Yoghurt(beaten)
Take 2 tbsp :Ginger-garlic paste
Make ready 3 tablespoons Biryani masala(recipe given below)
Make ready 2 teaspoons Saffron infused water
Take 2 tsp minced green Chilli or as per your taste
Prepare 2-3 sprigs Mint leaves
Make ready 1 teaspoon Kashmiri red chilli powder
Get 1 tablespoon Lemon juice
Take 2-3 Alu Bukhara (dry plum)
Take to taste Salt
Get as required Sufficient oil to deep fry onions to make beresta
Make ready For Ingredients for Rice preparation
Get 1 kg long grain Basmati rice
Make ready 3-4 Cloves
Prepare 2-3 Cinnamon sticks(1 inch each)
Prepare 3-4 green Cardamom
Prepare 5-6 black Peppercorn
Make ready 1 teaspoon Shah jeera
Get 1 tablespoon Ghee
Prepare 1 tablespoon leftover oil of fried onions
Prepare 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Take 2 tablespoon Salt
Take 3-4 litre Water
Get For Ingredients for layering Biryani
Prepare 1-2 handful Mint leaves
Take 1 cup Fried Onions (beresta)
Make ready 1 cup Milk
Make ready 5-6 Saffron strands soaked in 1/4th cup of Milk
Get 1 tablespoon Ghee
Prepare Few drops of Biryani essence
Prepare Few drops of Kewra water
Get 1 tsp or as per your taste Salt
Get For Ingredients of homemade Biryani masala
Make ready 3 tbsp Coriander seeds
Get 2 tablespoon Shah jeera
Prepare 1 teaspoon Fennel seeds
Make ready 5-6 dry red Chillies
Take 1 tablespoon Black proper corns
Make ready 1 tablespoon Cloves
Get 8-9 green Cardamom
Prepare 2 Black Cardamom
Take 3-4 (1 inch) size Cinnamon
Make ready 2-3 Bay leaves
Take 1 small piece of Nutmeg
Make ready 1 small piece of Mace
Get 1 tablespoon dry raw mango
Steps to make Chicken Dum Biryani:
To prepare Biryani masala dry roast(until aromatic) all the ingredients mentioned above for the masala except, dry mango, nutmeg, and mace.
Grind all the ingredients together to make the spice powder. Set aside.
For Onion barista - Slice 3-4 onions thinly and uniformly.
Fry with sufficient cooking oil until light golden brown. Drain excess oil and spread it to a kitchen towel. It's very important to fry onions properly as it is one of the most important ingredients of biryani. Fry until just lightly golden brown. Over frying may make them bitter in taste.
To make Rice wash, rinse rice 3-4 times and soak for an hour with sufficient water.
Place a broad vessel with 3-4 liter of water. Add in salt(a little more than normal), cloves, black peppers, green cardamom, cinnamon, shah jeera, ghee, lemon juice, and leftover oil of onion barista.
Bring to a roaring boil. Then add in the soaked (drained water) rice, stir lightly and cook in medium heat for 3-4 minutes or until the rice cooked to 75% to 80%.
Drain the cooked rice into a broad colander and spread them so that they won't stick to each other. The intention is to release the vapor from the rise. Set aside until vapor releases completely.
Procedure to marinade the chicken.
Cut chicken in medium-sized pieces with skin on. Wash properly and drain excess water.
Soak saffron strands with 2-3 tablespoons of water.
To a big mixing bowl, add in the chicken pieces.
To that add in chopped onion, fried onion, ginger-garlic paste, minced green chilies, beaten curd, 2-3 tbsp home-made biryani masala (use as per your choice, if you like light spiced biryani then add in 2 tbsp or if you like spicy biryani, add in 3-4 tablespoon), Kashmiri red chili powder, saffron water, mint leaves, salt, and lemon juice.
Mix well with your hand, cover, and keep aside for at least 2 hours at room temperature.
Also, add in 2-3 aloo Bukhara/dry plum.
After marinading the chicken it is time to fry the chicken. For that add in ghee and leftover oil of onion barista to a heavy-bottomed pan.
Pan and fry in medium-low heat for about 10-15 minutes. These steps really help to enhance the flavor of the chicken. No need to cook the chicken completely. They will perfectly cook with rice in "dum".
Layering process. First, soak some saffron strands with 1/4th cup of milk.
Take a big heavy bottomed vessel and put some rice(prepared early) at the bottom of the vessel to make a thin layer. Use 1/3rd of the rice. Discard any whole spices you find.
Next place the prepared chicken along with the gravy.
Over that sprinkle a handful of onion beretta/fried onion and few sprigs of mint leaves. Over that spread 1/2 of the remaining rice.
Again sprinkle 2- a tablespoon of saffron milk, fried onion, and few mint leaves.
Now spread the remaining rice on the top.
Put 1 cup of milk and 1 cup of water in the pot where we cooked the chicken. A lot of spices remain in the pot. We don't want to throw them. - To that add in 1 tablespoon of ghee, a little salt, few mint leaves, 1/2 teaspoon of biryani masala, and the remaining saffron milk.
Mix well and pour over the rice.
Finally sprinkle some more fried onions, mint leaves, biryani essence, and kewra water.
Cover the vessel 1st with aluminum foil and then with a lid. The vessel should cover tightly.
Place the vessel on to stovetop. - Cook in high heat for 3-4 minutes and then simmer the flame and cook in dum for 20-25 minutes.
After cooking, remove from heat, set aside for 10 minutes, and then remove the lid and foil. Wow.Done
Very carefully, with a flat spatula, release the biryani from sides to serve.
Serve hot with some raita and salad. It's really aromatic, mildly spiced biryani.
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