Hydrabadi Chicken Dum Biryani Food

HYDERABADI CHICKEN DUM BIRYANI RECIPE

Steps:

• Wash the chicken and let the water drain out
• Prepare a paste of ginger, garlic, green chillies
• Take a bowl and prepare a marinade with the ginger, garlic, green chilly paste prepared in the previous step, curd, turmeric powder, salt, biryani masala, and oil
• Ensure that the marinade is consistent and there is no lump
• Pour the marinade over the chicken pieces and massage properly to ensure that marinade is evenly spread.
• Cover and refrigerate overnight or a minimum of 4 hours
• Thinly slice the onions
• In a wok or kadai, pour oil and once the oil is hot, drop the onions
• Fry till the onion is golden brown
• Keep aside in a bowl
• In a pot, add water along with all the whole spices, oil and salt and allow the water to come to a boil
• Once the water boils, check if the water is salty. If not, add more salt to ensure that the water is seasoned properly. It should taste like sea water
• Drain and add the rice. Keep a careful eye as the rice cooks faster
• Drain the rice and keep aside once it is 70% cooked
• In a biryani pot, brush some ghee at the bottom. You may use oil as well
• Add the marinaded chicken and ensure that part of every chicken piece touches the bottom of the pot
• Add some brown onions, chopped coriander and mint leaves on top
• Carefully toss half of the rice on top of this
• Repeat by adding some brown onions, chopped coriander and mint leaves
• Toss rest of the rice
• Add the remaining brown onions, chopped coriander and mint leaves
• Soak the saffron strands in milk and pour over the biryani
• Add ghee, rose water and kewra water
• Close the lid and seal the pot
• Cook on high for 10 minutes
• Cook on low flame for around 20 minutes
• Switch off the flame
• Allow the covered pot to rest for another 10 to 15 minutes
• Carefully lift the lid and serve hot with raita and salad

HYDERABADI CHICKEN BIRYANI

Steps:

• Heat oil at medium high in a wide frying pan. If you place your palm about 3 inches over the surface of oil, you should feel the heat. Or use a candy/fry thermometer.
• Fry onions in batches. Do not crowd the pan. Fry until crisp light golden brown. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine chicken with all marinade ingredients and 1/3 of fried onions. Tip: Add yogurt, starting with 1/2 cup and increase as needed to 3/4 cup. The mixture should be thick and not runny.
• Grind biryani spices in a spice grinder. Add to chicken marinade and combine. Marinate for about 3 to 5 hours.
• Rinse rice 4 to 5 times in lots of water until it is clear. Drain well. Soak 1/3 cup basmati rice in water for one hour. Save the rest.
• Below is the rice cooker method. For alternative traditional cooking method check our lamb biryani recipe.
• Bring 2¼ cups of water to a rolling boil in a rice cooker. Add 3/4 teaspoon salt, 1½ tablespoons olive oil and whole spices (see note). Then add remaining 1⅔ cups basmati rice and stir. Let it cook just until all the water is absorbed (see notes).
• It is important to NOT let the rice steam until it is fully done. Just when all the water is well absorbed, transfer cooked rice immediately to another wide open pan. In my rice cooker the whole process takes about 15 to 20 minutes.
• Transfer chicken with marinade to a 5-quart, wide, thick-bottomed and oven-proof cooking pot (9 to 10 inch diameter). Make sure there is not too much marinade around chicken pieces and that it is not runny.
• Scatter cilantro, mint, half the lemon juice and 1/2 tablespoon olive oil over the chicken and marinade. Then scatter most of the fried onions.
• Drain the soaked basmati rice very well and spread it over the fried onion layer. (This raw soaked rice will get cooked with the juices from chicken).
• Next, layer all the cooked rice. Top with remaining lemon juice, saffron water, fried onions and ghee.Tip: If you prefer, you may pick out the whole spices from cooked rice before steaming.
• Oven Method: Place one sheet of parchment paper, followed by one to two sheets of aluminum foil over the cooking pot. Place the lid tight over it. Bake biryani in a preheated oven at 350ºF for one hour, until steam builds up well.
• Stove-Top Method (Alternative): Heat the biryani at medium high for about 10 to 15 minutes and then reduce to low and cook for one hour until steam builds up well.
• Remove from oven or stove. Let it cool five minutes and gently mix rice and chicken. Using a spatula, mound the biryani on a serving plate, making sure to present the rice in various colors - white, yellow, orange and brown. Place some chicken pieces on the top. Scatter fried onions, herbs and extra saffron rice on top.
• Serve it with mirchi ka salan or Hyderabadi tomato egg curry and raita.

HYDERABADI CHICKEN DUM BIRYANI RECIPE

Steps:

• Add salt to the chicken, red chili powder, turmeric powder, ginger garlic paste, cinnamon sticks, cloves.
• Also, add cardamom powder, shahi zeera, garam masala powder, yogurt, green chili paste, mix well
• Add crushed fried onions and mix everything well.
• Add black pepper powder, oil, chopped mint leaves, lemon extracted juice, coriander leaves, mix well.
• Cover and Marinate in refrigerator for at least 1 to 2 hours.
• Add good amount of water in a cooking pot.
• Add whole spices such as cinnamon stick, cloves, shahi jeera, cardamoms, black peppercorns, salt to taste, oil.
• Bring the water to a boil.
• Add soaked basmati rice into the boiling water.
• Stir in between and cook the rice until 75% done or for about 10 minutes.
• Strain the rice.
• Place a tawa.
• Place a cooking pot on the tawa.
• Add little oil at the base, add the marianated chicken, spread evenly.
• Add the strained rice.
• Spread evenly.
• Top it with crushed fried onions, chopped coriander and mint leaves, saffron strands soaked in milk, saffron food color, clarified butter/ ghee
• Cover tightly with an aluminium foil.
• Cover with a lid.
• Dum on high flame for 10 minutes and on low flame for 30 minutes.
• Biryani is ready to serve.

HYDERABADI CHICKEN BIRYANI

Steps:

• hyderabadi chicken biryani gravy.
• Marinate chicken overnight with yogurt, salt, lemon, and red chilli powder.
• Slice onions thin and length-wise. Fry in oil until brown and crispy. Remove and set aside by soaking in paper towels.
• Use the remainder oil to add the following spices: (cloves, cardomom, bay leaf, anise, black cardomom, mase, shah jeera, cumin seeds, cinnamon sticks).
• Once fragrant, add in the tomatoes, chillies and girnger/garlic paste.
• Now, add in the garam masala.
• After stirring a few mins, add in the marinated chicken.
• Now, add in the Shan Biryani Masala.
• Stir and cover with a lid over medium-low heat. This will need to cook for an hr or so. The longer it cooks, the more tender the meat will be.
• Soak the basmati rice in cool water after flushing about 3-4 times.
• Boil around 6 cups of water for the 4 cups of rice, Add in the rice. Heat uncovered until the first boil appears within the first 10-15 minutes.
• Use the tray and line the first layer with gravy and chicken from earlier. Now add a layer on top with the semi- cooked rice. Top with garnish of mint and the fried onion from earlier.
• Continue with step 11 until the tray is full.
• Soak the saffron layers in warm milk for a couple minutes Garnish this dilution over the top of the biryani.
• Cover the tray with aluminum foil and bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
• Enjoy!