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Hyderabadi Biryani or Dum Biryani or Hyderabadi chicken Biryani is a patent dish that people savor among the auspicious days of Ramadan or Ramazan. It’s very commonly found in these days being served up in high class restaurants to even road side food joints.

Well I just love Biryani it’s a total power packed wholesome dish with it’s with the perfect spices and the juicy chicken. Well don’t you agree with me? So haw about we try to make this at home? Don’t worry it’s not a tough nut to crack, Hyderabadi Biryani has quite a few recipes by which it can be made but today I have simplified the whole process to cook the perfect Hyderabadi Dum Biryani or the Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani.

At times you must have surely worried on how to cook Biryani but be glad I am here with a super easy Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani step by step recipe. And be assured it’s going to taste super amazing. So let’s begin!

Prep time: 15-20mins
Cook time: 50-60mins
Marinating time: 120mins
Serves: 4 people

Ingredients:
1. Chicken: 1kg(washed nicely and drained)
2. Basmati rice: 1/2kg( washed and soaked for at least 10mins)
3. Ginger-garlic paste: 2tbs
4. Fresh coriander leaves: a handful
5. Mint leaves: a handful
6. Onion: 1nos(diced)
7. Green chilies: 2(chopped)
8. Golden brown onion: 4nos(sliced and fried till golden brown)
9. Lemon juice: 2tbs
10. Desi ghee: 4-5tbs
11. Mustard oil: a little
12. Black pepper: 1tbs
13. Cumin seeds: 2tbs
14. Bay leaf: 2pc
15. Cardamom: 4-5nos
16. Cloves: 7-8nos
17. Cinnamon: 1stick
18. Turmeric powder: 1tbs
19. Coriander powder: 1tbs
20. Red chili powder: 1 ½ tbs
21. Biryani Masala: 2tbs
22. Garam masala: 1tbs
23. Salt: 2tbs
24. Fresh Curd: 250gms(For marinating)
25. Kesar: a little mixed with 4tbs of milk(for color)
26. Orange food color: a little mixed with 4tbs of milk
27. Kewra water: ½ tbs

Method:

Step 1: Marinating the chicken
First of all take the chicken and pour fresh curd on it and put 2 tbs of ginger-garlic paste on it as well.
Now put 1tbs of salt, 2 green chilies, turmeric powder, red chili powder, Biryani masala, garam masala, and coriander powder and lemon juice as well. Mix everything well and nice and keep aside for at least 2hours and cover with a plate so that the marinating is done nicely.

Step 2: Preparing the rice
Now take a pan and pour a 3tbs refined oil and heat up. Put 1tbs of cumin seeds, ½ tbs of black pepper, 3-4cardamom, and 2 bayleafs and 4-5 cloves and fry them a little. This will give a nice taste and aroma to the rice.

Now let’s put the rice which we already washed and soaked in water for 10mins and mix with dry spices and cook for 1min.

Now put water onto the rice in sufficient quantity and a little more only and now put 1tbs of salt and mix well.

Let is cook till first boil and now lower the flame as we need to cook the rice till 70-80% only. Cover the lid. As when we will cook the chicken the rice will get cooked with it as well so do not cook the rice entirely.

It’s almost 2hours so let’s prepare the chicken.

Step 3: Preparing the Chicken
Now take a medium pan and pour a little mustard oil and heat up. Now add the dry spices 1tbs cumin seeds, 4-5 cloves, ½ tbs black pepper, cinnamon stick and fry a little (we used half the dry spices in rice as well)

Now put the chopped onion and fry till they turn brown a little.

Now put the chicken in and cook for about 2-3min. Cook the chicken while stirring for 5mins nicely and you can see the gravy coming up. We will not dry up the chicken as this will be cooked with rice and if we dry it up the Biryani will turn out dry as well.

Add fresh mint leaves and coriander leaves. This will give a very nice taste to the Biryani.

Step 4: Layering up the Biryani
Now after the chicken is cooked let’s layer up rice.

Now put fried onion on top and a little mint leaves as well and golden fried onion as well and this will give it a nice taste.

Now the coloring part, the color in Biryani is very important so let’s add the kesar we mixed with milk on it and the orange food color similarly as well. Now put the Kewra water as well as this will enhance the taste of Biryani to a whole new level.

Now put Desi ghee as well and cover and cook.

Step 5: Cooking with Dum
Now cover the Biryani with lid and lower the flame. Seal the hole with dough. We haven’t sealed the entire utensil with dough as our lid is very tight but you do seal the edges with dough to get the perfect Biryani Dum and cook for 20mins.

Now after 20mins turn the gas off but don’t open the lid and let it be for more 20mins so that the Dum is nicely intact.

Now after 20mins open the lid and Voila, the Biryani is ready and perfectly cooked. It just smells heavenly!

Step 6: Serve up
Now serve the Biryani well and enjoy its perfect taste. Enjoy!

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