Kerala Style Chicken Dum Biriyani
Ingredients for
Chicken Marination:-
Chicken – 500 gm
Salt – as required
Turmeric Powder – ½ Tsp
Chilli Powder – ½ Tsp
Coriander powder – 1 Tsp
Pepper Powder – ½ Tsp
Ingredients for preparing
Biriyani Rice:-
Biriyani Rice – 2 Cup/Glass (Around 230 ml)
Oil – 1 Tsp
Ghee – 1 Tsp
Cloves - 8
Star Anise - 1
Cinnamon – one Stick
Cardamom - 5
Dry pepper - 10
Fennel Seeds – ¼ Tsp
Water – 3 ½ Cup (1 ½ Cup water for 1 Cup rice and ½ cup
extra)
Preparation:-
- Cut and clean the Chicken and take that into a vessel for marination
- Add Salt, Turmeric powder, Chilli powder, Coriander powder, Pepper powder and mix well and keep it aside for some time
- Take 2 cup (230 ml) biriyani rice and wash it well, make sure to drain the rice well
- Keep one big vessel to prepare the biriyani in a stove and add oil and ghee. Once it become hot add all the spices (Cloves, Star Anise, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Dry pepper, Fennel Seeds) into it and sauté well
- Add rice into this and stir well until the rice starts cracking. Keep the flame in medium
- Add 3 ½ cup water into the rice. Keep the flame high
- Add salt into it
- Add lemon juice (squeezed from half portion of the lemon) into the water
- Add 1/2 Tsp ghee into the water
- Once it starts boil closed with a lid and place a weight on the top of the vessel
- Keep the flame into high for 1 to 1 ½ min
- After one min reduce the flame to medium for 5 min
- Open the lid, reduce the flame to low and mix the rice well
- Again close the lid, place a weight and keep the flame into, medium for one min
- After one min switch off the stove and keep the vessel aside
- Take a cooker and add oil -1 ½ tbsp into it. Add cut onion (5 Medium size) into it. Add a little salt into it and stir well until it become transparent
- Add 4 ½ Tsp ginger garlic paste prepared by using Garlic – 20 pods, Green Chilli- 4, Ginger medium size) and sauté well
- Add Turmeric powder - ½ Tsp, Chilli powder - ¼ Tsp, Coriander powder - 1 ½ Tsp, Pepper powder - ¼ Tsp, Chicken masala – ½ Tsp and sauté well
- Add Tomato 3 medium size into the mixture
- Add marinated chicken into the cooker and mix well. Add 2 Tbsp water and close the lid. Cook the chicken for 1 whistle and then switch off the stove
- Heat a pan and add ghee into it. Fry cashew nuts and raisins and keep it aside
- Open the cooker and check whether the chicken is cooked.
- Switch on the stove and cook till the gravy become thicken
- Add garam masala and coriander leaves into the chicken. Switch off the stove
- Keep 3 or 4 pieces and gravy into the cooker and transfer remaining chicken pieces into another vessel
- Mix the cooked biriyani rice from the vessel
Layering:-
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Add cooked biriyani rice on the top of chicken
gravy and pieces
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Add a little turmeric into milk and sprinkle
that turmeric milk into the rice
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Add Coriander leaves
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Add fried cashew nuts and raisins
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Add a little garam masala
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Continue the process
- Heat a dosa pan. Place the cooker on the top of the pan. Keep the flame into medium for 10 min
- Biriyani is ready to serve