Chicken Dum Biryani

Instructions

For Chicken Marination:

• Take chicken and wash it really good with water.
• Add ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, salt to taste and lemon juice.
• Mix well and keep it aside for about 10-15 minutes.
• For yogurt marinate, take yogurt into a bowl.
• Add red chili powder, turmeric powder, biryani masala, coriander powder and salt. Mix well.
• Add slit green chillies, mint leaves and coriander leaves. Mix well.
• Add chicken in yogurt marinate. Mix well.
• Cover and transfer the bowl into freeze for marinating over night or for at least 8-10 hours.
• Take the marinated chicken at least an hour before you make biryani.
• Mix marinated chicken well again.

For Rice:

• Boil water in a pan.
• Add bay leaves, black peppercorns, cloves, green and black cardamom, shahi jeera, cinnamon sticks and salt.
• Bring it to boil.
• Take long grin basamati rice and wash it 2-3 times.
• Soak it in enough water for about 30 minutes. Drain all the water and add rice in boiling water.
• Boil until rice gets cooked for about 70-80% Add ghee.
• Cook rice on high heat for about 7-8 minutes.
• Check out the rice grains. These are not fully cooked.

For Layering Biryani:

• Take pan and add a layer of 4-5 tsp ghee at the bottom.
• Add marinated chicken over it and layer it.
• Add water and keep the pan aside.
• Take the pan again. Strain the rice from pan into biryani and layer evenly.
• When rice is layered, add 3-4 tbsp water from boiling rice over it.
• Add ghee again. Sprinkle biryani masala over rice.
• Add fried onion.
• Soak 7-8 saffron strands in hot water for about 30 minutes.
• Add saffron water, kevada water, coriander leaves and mint leaves.
• Cover with lid. If you want you can seat the lid with dough or aluminium foil.
• Cook on medium heat for 10 minutes.
• For induction cook top, medium heat is 130 Deg C or around 800 watts.
• After 10 minutes lower down the heat to 100 Deg C.
• Cook biryani on low to medium heat for next 15 minutes.
• After 15 minutes, lower down the heat to lowest possible temperature i.e. 80 Deg C or 200 watts for my cook top.
• Cook on lowest possible temperature for next 15 minutes.
• After 15 minutes, turn off the gas and give it a standing time of 5 minutes.
• Chicken dum biryani is already.