Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani — Evergreen Recipe

Simply delicious

Simply awesome, and the best authentic biryani can also be made at home. This food is a very famous recipe in India. What makes it characteristically different from others is its aroma, taste, delicious meat, and the Zaffran.

All together everything gives it a different taste and mouth licking appearance.

Today's recipe is Hyderabadi chicken dum biryani, also known as " Kachi Yakhni Biryani" as the chicken is not cooked but placed for dum style cooking on low heat.

This is the world’s best one-pot meal which could give supreme joy and comfort to the family in festive seasons.

Ingredients

A. For Chicken Marination

11/ 2 kg chicken (cut into large pieces safely) 2 tbsp ginger and garlic paste Few bunches of coriander leaves 1 bunch of mint leaves ¾ tbsp turmeric powder Salt as per taste 8 green chilies 4 cloves 1 tbsp caraway seeds 2 cup golden brown fried onions 1 tbsp lemon juice 2 cup yogurt 4 black peppercorns 1 cinnamon stick 2 tbsp red chili powder 1 tbsp garam masala powder

B. For Rice

Water as required for boiling 1 kg basmati rice 3 cloves 1 cinnamon stick 3 cardamoms 1 tbsp caraway seeds Salt as per taste 1 tbsp lemon juice 3 black peppercorns

C. For Dum Seasoning

2 tbsp oil required Coriander leaves Mint leaves 1 cup fried onions 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 cup saffron flavored milk 1 cup of water

Instructions

For Chicken Marination

1. Chicken pieces should be washed properly with lemon juice and water and properly strained. Ginger garlic paste should be added to it.
2. After this, add red chili powder, turmeric powder, and salt into it and mix well.
3. Add a bunch of coriander leaves, mint leaves, salt, and green chilies into a blender and make a thick paste out of it.
4. Add this paste to the chicken and then marinade.
5. Add whole garam masala into it and mix it properly.
6. Crush onions and add into the marinade.
7. Add beaten yogurt and oil into it and mix it well.
8. Add garam masala powder and lemon juice and mix well.
9. Add extra salt if required.
10. Now rest the marinade in the refrigerator for about 45 minutes to 1 hour.

To Cook Rice

1. Firstly basmati rice should be washed properly and soaked for about 35 minutes.
2. Add water generously into a cooking pot.
3. Now add caraway seeds, salt as per taste, cinnamon stick, cloves, and black peppercorns into water.
4. Boil the water, and when it starts boiling, add soaked rice into it. Cook rice for about 6 - 7 minutes until it is a bit more than half cooked.
5. Strain the rice properly and keep it aside

To Give The Dum

1. In the cooking pot, add oil and spill it all over the base.
2. Add chicken marinade into it and spread evenly.
3. After that, add cooked basmati rice into it.
4. Rice should be spread all over the marinade and seasoned with coriander leaves, mint leaves, and fried onions.
5. Lemon juice should be added over the rice.
6. Now add saffron flavored milk. Add ghee into it and a little water. Make a chapati dough and seal the lid and the cooking pot tightly.
7. Now dum Biryani (cook Biryani over low flame) for about 45 minutes.

Take the Biryani out and serve this lip-smacking dish with raita.