Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken dum biryani. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken Dum Biryani is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Chicken Dum Biryani is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken dum biryani using 45 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Dum Biryani:

1. Prepare For Marination:
2. Make ready 750 gms chicken
3. Prepare 1/2 cup yogurt
4. Take 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
5. Make ready 2 green chillies
6. Take 1 tsp turmeric powder
7. Prepare 1 tsp salt
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp chilli power
9. Take 1 tsp coriander powder
10. Make ready 1/2 tsp garam masala
11. Get 1 bay leaf,
12. Prepare 2 black cardamoms,
13. Make ready 1 green cardamom, 4-5 black pepper corns, 3-4 cloves, 2 star anise, ,
14. Prepare 1 tsp jeera
15. Prepare 1 cinnamon stick
16. Make ready 1/2 cup mint leaves
17. Get 1/2 cup coriander leaves
18. Get 2 tsp vegetable oil
19. Make ready 1/2 cup fried onions
20. Prepare For Masala:
21. Prepare 3 tbsp oil
22. Get 1 tsp jeera
23. Prepare 3 large onions, sliced
24. Take 1 tsp freshly made ginger garlic paste
25. Prepare 2 tomatoes, cut lengthwise
26. Make ready as needed Little salt
27. Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
28. Prepare 1/2 tsp chilli powder
29. Get 1 tsp coriander powder
30. Make ready 1/2 cup water
31. Make ready For Rice:
32. Make ready 2 1/2 cups basmati rice, washed and soaked in water for about 30-40 mins
33. Make ready 1 tsp oil
34. Prepare 2 tbsp salt
35. Take as needed Few mint leaves
36. Get as needed Few coriander leaves
37. Prepare All the mentioned whole garam masala's above, but wrapped in a muslin cloth
38. Make ready For Dum:
39. Prepare 1 cup chopped mint and coriander leaves(together
40. Make ready 1 cup fried onions
41. Prepare 1 tbsp ghee/clarified butter
42. Make ready 1 tsp biriyani masala (I have used Everest)
43. Take 2 tbsp milk (room temperature)
44. Make ready as needed Juice of 1 lemon
45. Get as needed Red food colour (optional)

Instructions to make Chicken Dum Biryani:

1. For the marination, clean the chicken and all the mentioned ingredients. Mix well, cover and refrigerate it overnight or for min 3-4 hrs.
2. In a rice pot, add 3/4th water and all other ingredients. Cover and let it come to a boil. Then add the soaked rice and cook till 3/4th done. Strain and keep aside.
3. In a pressure cooker, add oil and let it heat. Now,add zeera and then the sliced onions. Fry till golden brown.
4. Add ginger garlic paste and fry for a min or so in medium flame.
5. Add the sliced tomatoes, salt, turmeric powder, coriander powder, chilli powder, and mix well. Cook till the tomatoes turns mushy.
6. Now it's time to add the marinated chicken. Give it a good mix and on high flame cook till the water separates. Then, lower the flame and pressure cook it for 1 whistle.
7. Take a thick bottomed nonstick pan/biriyani handi and grease it with few drops of oil. Add the first layer of chicken and then rice. Add few chopped mint and coriander leaves, few fried onions. Again layer it with chicken and rice. Finally, add the remaining fried onions,mint and coriander leaves. Sprinkle the biriyani masala all over the top layer.Add the food colour to the lemon juice, mix well and add few drops here and there. Add few drops of milk here and there too. Add the clarified ghee.
8. For Dum: I use an aluminum foil and cover the pan entirely, nicely seal it and cover the lid. You can also use the authentic method of dum i.e sealing the pan along with the lid with wheat dough so that the air shouldn't pass.
9. Note: 1) Adjust the spice level as per your taste. 2) If you don't want 4 layers of biriyani, add all the chicken in one layer and then top it up with the cooked rice. 3) After you pressure cook the chicken and if you see the gravy is too thin, on high flame, let it cook for few more mins(uncovered). 4) When it comes to using food colour, you can definitely play with as many or as less colors you want. You also have a choice to skip this step completely.
10. Note: For fried onions,I have just sliced the onions and fried it in vegetable oil till they turned brown. You can also use store bought one if you want to avoid this step and save some time.

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