Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chicken dum biryani. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chicken Dum Biryani is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Chicken Dum Biryani is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken dum biryani using 29 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Dum Biryani:

1. Get basmati rice (preferably aged rice)
2. Make ready water
3. Take shahi jeera
4. Get small bay leaf
5. Get thin cinnamon
6. Make ready green cardamoms
7. Prepare cloves (optional)
8. Get oil
9. Take medium onions sliced thinly
10. Take star anise / chakri phool
11. Prepare green cardamoms / choti elaichi
12. Take black cardamom (optional) / badi elaichi
13. Get cloves / lavang
14. Prepare cinnamon stick / dalchini
15. Get shahi jeera / caraway seeds
16. Take bay leaf / tej patta
17. Prepare ginger garlic paste
18. Take chicken (500 to 600 grams)
19. Make ready Salt
20. Make ready turmeric / haldi
21. Make ready biryani masala (or chickn masala)
22. Take red chilli powder / lal mirch powder
23. Make ready green chilies slit (adjust as needed)
24. Make ready thick fresh curd / dahi / yogurt (do not use sour curd)
25. Prepare mint finely chopped
26. Take coriander leaves finely chopped
27. Make ready hot milk with pinch of saffron soaked
28. Get kewra water
29. Prepare ghee / clarified butter

Instructions to make Chicken Dum Biryani:

1. Cooking Biryani Rice: :point_down: Wash rice few times until the water runs clear. Soak for 30 mins. Drain the water.
2. Bring 8 to 10 cups of water to a boil in a large pot. Add bay leaf and shahi jeera. You can also add cinnamon stick, cardamoms and cloves. You can also tie these spices in a muslin cloth and add to the pot. It can be discarded later
3. When the water comes to a boil, add salt and drained rice.
4. Cook until it is done al dente. Rice should be firm, grainy and you must feel the bite into the grain when you bite it. Drain it off to a colander.
5. Making chicken biryani gravy: :point_down: While the rice cooks, Saute onions in hot oil to make fried onions. When they are golden and evenly done, set aside 1/4 of them aside on a kitchen towel.
6. Lower the flame and saute bay leaf, star anise, shahi jeera, cloves, cardamom.
7. Add ginger garlic paste and fry until the raw smell has gone completely.
8. Add chicken and fry on a medium heat until it turns pale or white.
9. Sprinkle salt, biriyani masala, red chilli powder, slit green chilies and turmeric. Mix well and fry for 3 mins.
10. Cover and cook on a low to medium flame for 3 to 4 mins to let the moisture out from the meat.
11. Pour yogurt and mix well. Cover and cook on a medium heat until the meat is completely cooked and the gravy thickens. At this stage a thick gravy is left for the dum process. Taste and adjust salt as needed.
12. Lower the flame, sprinkle some mint and coriander leaves. Stir well.
13. Layer the rice evenly. Sprinkle fried onions, mint, coriander leaves, saffron soaked milk, kewra water & ghee. You can also skip using saffron, ghee and kewra water but these give an authentic touch.
14. Cover the pot with a foil or a moist kitchen cloth. Place a tight lid to trap the steam or dum. If the lid is not tight then you can place a heavy pot on top of the lid.
15. To make multilayer hyderabadi chicken dum biryani: Use a small pot. Just before layering the rice, set aside half of the chicken curry. Layer half the rice. Then layer the rest of the curry. Repeat layering rice then ghee, kewra, mint coriander and fried onions.
16. Dum process on stove top Heat a old tawa or a pan, place this biryani pot and dum cook for 12 to 15 mins on a medium heat. If using a induction stovetop, you can directly place the pot at 3 No for 15 to 20 mins.
17. Serve chicken dum biryani with salan and raita

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