Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chicken dum biryani. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken Dum Biryani is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Chicken Dum Biryani is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken dum biryani using 29 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Dum Biryani:

1. Make ready basmati rice (preferably aged rice)
2. Make ready water
3. Get shahi jeera
4. Prepare small bay leaf
5. Get thin cinnamon
6. Make ready green cardamoms
7. Prepare cloves (optional)
8. Get oil
9. Prepare medium onions sliced thinly
10. Prepare star anise / chakri phool
11. Prepare green cardamoms / choti elaichi
12. Prepare black cardamom (optional) / badi elaichi
13. Take cloves / lavang
14. Get cinnamon stick / dalchini
15. Make ready shahi jeera / caraway seeds
16. Take bay leaf / tej patta
17. Prepare ginger garlic paste
18. Make ready chicken (500 to 600 grams)
19. Prepare Salt
20. Take turmeric / haldi
21. Take biryani masala (or chickn masala)
22. Get red chilli powder / lal mirch powder
23. Get 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. Prepare hot milk with pinch of saffron soaked
28. Prepare kewra water
29. Take 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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