Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken dum biryani. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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 well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Chicken dum biryani is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken dum biryani using 21 ingredients and 19 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken dum biryani:

1. Make ready 500 g chicken
2. Make ready 500 g basmati rice
3. Get 1 bunch coriandor
4. Prepare 1 bunch mint
5. Make ready 6 green chillies
6. Prepare 2 tbsp lemon juice
7. Take 1 cup curd
8. Make ready 2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
9. Take to taste salt
10. Prepare 6 green cardamom
11. Take 2 cinnamon sticks
12. Get 6 black pepper corn
13. Prepare 2 Bay leafs
14. Prepare 4 cloves
15. Get 1 tbsp red chili powder
16. Make ready 1/2 tsp turmeric
17. Prepare 2 mace blades
18. Prepare 1/2 cup oil
19. Prepare 1/4 cup fried onions
20. Take 1 tsp cumin powder
21. Take 1 tbsp coriander powder

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. Chicken Dum Biryani Recipe - About Chicken Dum Biryani Recipe: A classic Mughalai dish, Biryani is an aromatic delight loved by all. This dum biryani recipe is a sumptuous chicken biryani that is cooked with utmost precision that you are bound to make this dish again and again to relish the delicate flavours. A quick and easy home made biryani is something you cannot escape.

Steps to make Chicken dum biryani:

1. Wash and drain the chicken nicely.
2. Slice onions and deep fry them and keep aside.
3. Now make a powder of all the whole spices listed above.and marinade the chicken.
4. Now make a fine paste of green chillies,mint and coriandor and apply to chicken, and also add curd lemon juice and oil to it and mix well with your hands making sure every piece is coated nicely.
5. Add some fried onions too and give it a nice mix and keep the marinated chicken in refrigerator for 2 hours.
6. Now take the rice and wash it 2/3 times and sock it for 1 hour.
7. Now heat some water in vessel around 6 cups,and add whole spices to it.
8. 4 cloves,6 green cardamoms,1 cinnamon,2 Bay leafs 1 black cardamom and 1 tsp shahi jeera and salt around 4 tbsp.
9. Once water starts boiling add 1 tsp oil and rice to it.
10. Cook rice till 70 %. and drain the water completely.
11. Now assembling the biryani.
12. Add a layer of marinated chicken,and sprinkles some friend onions, chopped mint and coriandor.
13. Now add the layer of rice and again sprinkle some fried onions chopped mint and coriandor
14. Second layer of rice same as above
15. Add saffron milk on top, u can also add some ghee or clarified butter, it's optional.but if added it enhances the taste
16. Now cover the pot with lid. and seal it with whole wheat dough or u can put some weights on top of the lip.to prevent escape of stem.
17. Now cook the biryani for 5 mints on high flame. after 5 mints. lift the pot. place the girdle and put the pot back on girdle and lower the heat to slow. and cook for about 30 mints.
18. After 30 mints your biryani is ready to serve. but do not hurry to open the lid. switch off the falme and wait for 10 more minutes and then open the lid and enjoy your fresh home made delicious chicken dum biryani..
19. U can garnish it with some fried onions and chopped mint and coriander leaves, serve with curd raita. and a lemon.

Chicken Dum Biryani is a slow cooking process and this process is very essential to bring the perfect flavors out of the dum biryani. It is a Dum method and it is called so as the chicken marinade and the rice is placed inside the cooking pot and is tightly sealed with a chapathi dough and cooked by not letting the steam come out. Chicken Dum Biryani Recipe is one such recipe which is loved by everyone in the family. Biryani is derived from the Farsi word 'birian' originated in Persia, biryani was introduced to India during the British rule. Each of the variation being loyal to its regional history.

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