Hyderabadi Dum Chicken Biryani

It was my husband's birthday this past times week. Being that it was a week-day, I didn't brand anything elaborate.I made his favorite Hyderabadi dum chicken biryani this weekend!

By whatever account, Hyderabadi Dum Biryani is the virile mortal monarch of all kinds of biryanis! Whoa!! What am I talking about?? Does this audio similar jargon?? Okay, allow me start at the real beginning, thence that I tin brand this comprehensible to all readers! Biryani is a means of cooking rice alongside spices together with some sort of meat.. Lamb, mutton, chicken. It tin also live on made using fish or eggs.. There is of course of teaching a vegetarian version too.. But that is pretty much similar the pulao( pilaf). Now what is the departure betwixt pulao together with biryani?? Yes, both are dishes which comprise rice mixed alongside chicken/fish/vegetables. The departure is that inward pulao, the rice together with the meat/fish/vegetable is cooked together. Whereas inward biryani, the rice is pre-cooked until half-done, thence layered alongside meat/chicken/fish which has also been separately cooked until half-done together with thence the 2 are arranged inward alternate layers; cooked nether dum together with garnished alongside fried onions together with cashew halves on top. What is dum? Dum is pretty much deadening cooking either inward the oven or on the stove-top on hit of a shape atomic release 26 pan, without bringing the pot inward instantly contact alongside the fire.

Mmmm... My oral fissure is watering already. Biryani is 1 of the hit dishes offered inward India. It is to a greater extent than oftentimes than non made on exceptional celebratory occasions. There are several kinds of Biryani.. Mumbai Biryani, Hyderabadi biryani, thence on together with thence forth.. Hyderabadi Biryani is considered hit notch together with the best tasting.. Hyderabad is the uppercase of the nation of Andhra Pradesh inward India.  This biryani manifestly originated inward the royal kitchen of the Nizam Shahs  who ruled the part at the time.

Every Indian who likes Biryani prides themselves on making a skilful one. I get got come upward across several recipes out in that place that are either also tedious alongside hundreds of steps to it or it only didn't gustation right. Me existence me.. I get got neither the fourth dimension nor the patience for long-drawn recipes that get got all 24-hour interval to make. Therefore I was thrilled when my beloved friend Phani( who is from Andhra Pradesh) shared this quick together with slowly recipe for Hyderabadi Dum Biryani. I get got been making this for a few years at nowadays together with I must say, it is absolutely fool-proof! I am yet to uncovering a mortal who didn't similar this Biryani! The improver of boiled egg halves earlier serving is non purpose of the master copy recipe.It is my change every bit sometimes the Biryani is also spicy for me together with this helps cutting the spice level.

Whenever I brand this Biryani, I brand a huge batch inward my Dutch oven every bit my hubby looks frontwards to leftovers. I must tell that this is the entirely non-vegetarian dish whose leftovers he eats!!! I intend he secretly looks frontwards to every fourth dimension I brand this dish!;)

Servings: 6-8

Ingredients:

Basmati rice: iii cups
Water : 8 cups
Chicken alongside bones : 2 lbs, cleaned, chopped into medium pieces.
Red Onions: iii medium, chopped lengthwise.
Cashew halves: 2 tbsp
Sour yogurt: 1 cup
Ginger garlic paste: 1 tbsp
Lemon juice: 1 tsp
Haldi: 1 tsp
Chilli powder: 1/2 tsp
Green chillies: 6, chopped fine.
Bay leaves: 2
Cloves:4-6
Cardamom pods: 4-6
Cinnamon stick: 2 nos
Shah jeera: 2 pods
Kalajeera: 1 tsp
Ghee: 2 tbsp ( optional)( you lot could exercise only fossil oil instead of ghee)
Coconut oil: 2 tbsp( whatever cooking fossil oil tin live on used)
Mint leaves: 1 cup, cleaned
Saffron:3-4 strands
Warm milk: 1 tbsp
Hard boiled eggs: 4, sliced into 2( optional), for garnishing.
Salt: every bit per taste.

Method:

Marinate the chicken pieces alongside a lilliputian salt, lemon juice, haldi powder, blood-red Chilli pulverisation together with continue aside for atleast thirty mins.

Fry sliced onions inward ghee-oil mixture until golden together with crispy . Drain on newspaper towels.

Fry cashew halves inward the same fossil oil together with continue aside.

Now sauté cinnamon, clove, cardamom, bay leaves, kala jeera, shahi jeera inward the same fossil oil for 1-2 mins together with continue aside.

Soak basmati rice inward H2O for thirty minutes. Drain together with allow it dry out for some other thirty mins.

Boil H2O alongside 1/2 tsp common salt . When the H2O comes to a boil, add together the basmati rice. Cook it entirely until the rice crackles( half-done, takes around 10 minutes). Drain using a colander. Keep aside.

Cook the chicken until half-cooked. Let it cool down.

Once cooled, add together to it ginger garlic paste, yogurt, salt, the fried whole spices, one-half of the fried onions together with cashew halves, greenish chillies, mint leaves. Mix well.

Soak the saffron strands inward warm milk for 10 mins. Mix this into the warm rice.

Preheat the oven to 400 deg F.

Take the chicken inward a oven-safe pot( I exercise a Dutch oven). Spread it along the entire bottom of the pot. 

Now layer the half-cooked rice on hit of this.

Cover the pot tightly alongside aluminum foil.

Close the lid together with house it inward the oven for 45minutes to 1 hour, checking inward between.

When done, garnish alongside the removing fried onions/ cashew halves together with boiled egg halves.

Mix good earlier serving.

Serve hot alongside onion raita and/or chopped onions dressed alongside lemon juice together with salt.

Enjoy!

I am bringing this to Angie's Fiesta Friday! I know it is a lilliputian belatedly inward the 24-hour interval to select it but I am certain the wonder ful together with Angie together with her co-hosts Jhuls together with Margy wouldn't demand heed together with would non desire to immature lady out on this delicious dish!
I am also bringing this to Super elementary Tuesdays past times Hun whats for dinner?.

Cooking made easy:

If you lot don't get got an oven, you lot could even thence brand Dum Biryani past times heating a shape atomic release 26 frying pan/griddle on depression flame together with keeping the pot on hit of the pan.

There is an fifty-fifty easier way, but if course of teaching is non the authentic Dum Biryani. This is past times layering it inward the rice cooker together with letting it fix there. Though I get got never personally used this method, I get got seen my friend exercise it. It comes out perfect!

Tip for salubrious living:

For those who are wellness conscious, most recipes that telephone band for ghee tin live on substituted alongside a 50:50 ghee:oil mixture. This means you lot tin relish the season together with odor of ghee also piece existence depression inward calories/fat content.

Food for thought:

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