For our family weekend is always about having chicken. This time it was Chicken Dum Biryani.This form of biryani is little different than the others.
Dum Style cooking involves cooking rice and meat in layers in deep bottomed heavy pan. This style of cooking is called giving DUM.. as both rice and meat is cooked in its own steam.
Preparation time : 30 minutes
Cooking time : 1 hour approx
Ingredients
- Chicken : 1kg
- Onions : 3 large( sliced)
- Curd : 250grams
- Ginger garlic paste : 2 tbsp
- Chilly powder : 2 tbsp
- Basmati rice : 5 cups
- Garam masala : 1tbsp
- Food color
- Cinnamon : 1 stick
- Star anise : 3-4
- Bay leaves : 2
- Kewra : 1 tsp
- Mint leaves : 1/2 cup
- Salt as per taste
Method
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Firstly marinate the chicken with curd, ginger garlic paste, chilly powder and salt. For best results keep it overnight, if you don’t have time then atleast for half and hour.
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Now take water in a vessel. To if add salt and star anise, cinnamon stick and bay leaves. When the water strrts boiling add rice. Cook rice.. Half.
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For this biryani your pan should be bottomed. In oil add onions, saute it nicely. Now add the marinated chicken. Cook until its half done.
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Now finally make layers of rice and chicken. The bottom should be rice then chicken ( atleast 2 layers). In between sprinkle some mint leaves. Add the food color
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Now seal the pan with dough. So that the biryani can be cooked in Dum for atleast 15 minutes at low flame.
Serve hot with chili chill raitaa
Note : mix food color in milk and add little Kewra water.
