Chicken dum biryani. 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.

This will help you in getting the perfect dum biryani. 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. You can cook Chicken dum biryani using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken dum biryani

Prepare 2 cup of basmati rice.
You need of Yogurt, lemon juice, red chili, green chili, ginger garlic paste.
Prepare 500 gm of chicken (boneless/bones).
You need of Whole garam masala (spices), salt, coriender powder,.
You need of Rose water, milk, desi ghee, food color (optional).
Prepare of Cilantro leaves, biryani masala, onion.
It's of For 3 servings.
You need of Veg oil.

Each of the variation being loyal to its regional history. Down south in most regions like Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Chicken dum biryani is a ever green classic that needs no introduction in parts of countries like Persia, India and others! Dum biryani is goodness of rice and meat that comes in layers!

Chicken dum biryani instructions

First marinate the chicken. For marination take 2 tb spn yogurt + 1 lemon juice+ 1"ginger+8-9 clove garlic (paste)+ 1tb spn red chili powder+1tb hot spices + 2tb biryani masala + 2tb salt+ (acc to taste)+ 3-4 tb spn veg oil. Keep this mixture in the fridge for overnight or min 8hrs..
Take 1 big size onion. Cut it in thin vertical way and take 4-5 green chili and cut it too in vertical way. Take 3 tb spoon veg oil in a pan and fry onion till the dark pink then add chopped green chili n fry it till the brown color. Take it out in a bowl. This is for autentic smell and flavor of the biryani..
Soak rice for 1 hr in plain water. Take a pan. Add water and add 2-3 green cardamom, 1 bay leaf, 1 pc of mace, 2-3 cloves, 1"pc cinnamon, 4-5 black ground pepper, 1tb spn salt. When water has started boiling add soaked rice. Boil it till 5 mins only.Take out half boiled rice...
Take a pan add 4-5 tb spoon veg oil. After heat of oil add the marinated chicken n cook it for 20 min (medium flame). Take out half cooked chicken in a bowl..
Now we will give dum to it and layer for biryani. Take a pan. Took 1/3 rd of half cooked ckn in it spread across on the surface. Now add the 1/3rd half boiled rice and scatter the some fried onion and green chili. 4-5 drops milk, 4-5 drops rose water, 9-10 drops desi ghee and some chopped cilantro leaves. Again we will repeat the process for layering..
Final we will cover the pan by the lid (vapour shoud not come out). If the lid is loose then we can use dough to fix it and we will cook it for 15 mins (medium flame). Now dum biryani is ready..
We can serve it with green cilantro leaves chutney and onion rayeta (yogurt+chopped onion).

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 biryani in oven is almost similar to the one made in stove top but the only difference is dum should be done in oven. In dum biryani, the arrangement is made in such a way that marinated chicken is placed at the bottom and rice over the chicken. 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.