Hyderabadi Chicken Dum Biriyani

Ingredients

• 2 cup Basmati rice
• 1/2 chicken
• as required Whole spices (cinnamon clove, bay leaves, cardamom, mace)
• Handful Mint & coriander leaves
• 1 sliced onion
• 1 chopped tomato
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
• as per taste Salt
• as required Orange food color(optional)
• For Marination-
• 1/4 cup thick curd
• 1 tbsp chilli powder
• 1 tbsp Biryani masala
• 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
• as per taste Salt
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 2 tbsp fried onions
• 3 slit,green chillies
• 2 tbsp oil

Steps

1. Wash,clean the chicken nicely. Then marinate the chicken with marination ingredients and keep it in fridge for 1 hour to over night.
2. Soak the Basmati rice for 20 mins. In a big vessel, add 6 cups of water,1 tbsp oil,salt, few whole spices and let it boil well.
3. Add Basmati rice, cook for only 60% and strain the water. Keep it aside.
4. Meanwhile In a big heavy bottomed vessel, add 2 tbsp oil, 1 tbsp ghee, few whole spices,mint leaves,green chili and let it splutter.
5. Then add sliced onion,1 tsp ginger garlic paste and saute for 3 mins. Add tomato and cook until it turns mushy.
6. Mix the marinated once again and put the chicken in the vessel. Cook it for few mins on one side and another side for 4-5 mins.
7. Spread the cooked basmati rice gently on top of the cooked chicken. Add little fried onions, finely chopped coriander and mint leaves, little orange food color water, or saffron milk(optional).
8. Sprinkle 3 tbsp rice cooked water on top and close the vessel without ant gap using aluminum foil or chapathi dough and close it with lid tightly.
9. You can place a clean kitchen towel if you feel that air is coming out from the vessel as we need to cook in dum process.
10. Cook the biriyani on medium to high flame on 15 mins and low flame on 20 mins. Switch off the flame and do not disturb for 10 mins. Then open the lid and mix gently,serve the tasty, hot Dum biriyani with raitha or gravy 😋😋