Ingredients for Tender Chicken Dum Biryani:
1. Biryani rice – 3.5 cups
2. Ghee – ½ cup
3. Cinnamon – 1 piece
Cloves – 6
Cardamom – 6
4. Salt – As required
5. Hot water – 7 cups
For chicken masala:
6. Tender Chicken – 1 kg, cut into 2-inch pieces
7. Oil – ½ cup
8. Ginger-garlic paste – 4 big spoons
9. Onions – 2 big, sliced thin
Green chillies split – 10
Tomato – 2, cut into small pieces
10. Chilli powder – 1.5 small spoons
Turmeric powder – ½ small spoon
Garam masala powder – 1 small spoon
11. Coriander leaves – 100 gm, chopped
Mint leaves – 50 gms, chopped
Curd – ¼ cup
Salt – As required
To set biryani:
12. Ghee – A little
13. Garam masala powder – 1 small spoon
Onions – 2, small sliced and fried till golden brown
How to prepare Tender Chicken Dum Biryani?
1. Wash rice and drain off excess water.
2. Heat ghee and splutter ingredients no: 3.
3. Add rice and fry for 5 minutes.
4. Add salt and hot water and allow to boil.
5. Close the lid and cook in low flame.
6. When rice is cooked well, the water content should be fully absorbed.
7. Heat oil in a pressure cooker and sauté ginger-garlic paste.
8. Add ingredients no: 9 and sauté well the contents.
9. When it’s done, mix with ingredients no: 10.
10. When a pleasant aroma comes out, add ingredients no: 11 and sauté for a while.
11. Add chicken to it along with sufficient water.
12. Cook the ingredients in a pressure cooker.
13. Wait till pressure drops to zero.
14. Open the lid and if water is found in excess, cook on high flame till the water content is fully absorbed and the chicken turns dry.
15. Take a thick-bottomed vessel to set the biryani and apply a thin coat of ghee.
16. Spread half the amount of the meat mixture in the vessel as one layer.
17. Spread half the amount of cooked rice as layer two.
18. Spread half the quantity of ingredients no: 13.
19. Then layer the remaining chicken and rice as the next layers, respectively.
20. Spread garam masala and remaining fried onions.
21. Close the lid and cook for 5 more minutes.
Recipe Source: Vanitha Magazine February 15-29, 2012
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