Easiest Way to Prepare Chicken Dum Biryani in 18 Minutes for Mom

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken dum biryani. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna 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 meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Chicken Dum Biryani is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook chicken dum biryani using 25 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Dum Biryani:

1. Take chicken marination–
2. Make ready chicken
3. Take curd
4. Get onions finely chopped
5. Get tomatoes finely chopped
6. Get ginger garlic paste
7. Prepare green chillies (paste)
8. Get red chilli powder
9. Make ready lemon juice
10. Get chicken biryani masala
11. Take Salt
12. Take Steamed Rice
13. Take basmati rice
14. Take water
15. Get bay leaf
16. Make ready cinnamon stick
17. Take cardamons
18. Take black pepper corns
19. Prepare Salt
20. Make ready Dum Seasoning-
21. Prepare pure ghee
22. Prepare fried onions
23. Make ready finely chopped coriander
24. Make ready finely chopped mint leaves
25. Get saffron flavored milk

You can also put a foil paper over the dough, and then cover the lid. This will help you in getting the perfect dum biryani. Chicken dum biryani is a ever green classic that needs no introduction in parts of countries like Persia, India and others! Dum biryani is goodness of rice and meat that comes in layers!

Steps to make Chicken Dum Biryani:

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.

Layers of rice and meat cooked with rich and finger licking good masala in it's own steam pressure until rice is fluffy and meat cooked just to perfection. Cooking the Chicken Masala for making Hyderabadi style chicken dum biryani Heat ghee in a heavy pan. 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.

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