Course Main dish
Marination 1/2 hour
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
1/2 kg rice
1/2 kg chicken
3 onions
7 glasses water
1 lemon
4 cloves
4 small cinnamon sticks
1 teaspoon shahi jeera
4 cardamom
4 teaspoons ghee
Oil for deep frying (onions)
Salt as per taste
For Marination
1 onion
1/2 cup coriander
1/2 cup pudina (mint leaves)
4 green chillies
1 1/2 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
1 teaspoon chilli powder
1 teaspoon garam masala powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
400 ml curd
4 cloves
10 peppercorns
4 small cinnamon sticks
1 teaspoon shahi jeera
4 cardamoms
Salt as per taste
Method
- Take a grinding jar add 1 onion, coriander, mint leaves and green chillies and grind them into a fine paste.
- Take chicken in a bowl add salt, ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, chilli powder, garam masala powder and curd. Mix everything well and let the chicken marinate for 1/2 hour.
- Heat oil and deep fry sliced onion to golden brown.
- Mix half of the fried onions with chicken.
- Heat a pressure cooker and add marinated chicken and 4 cloves, 10 peppercorns, 4 small cinnamon sticks, 1 teaspoon shahi jeera and 4 cardamoms. Mix everything well close lid and pressure cook for 2 whistles.
- Wash 1/2 kg rice and soak them for 15 minutes.
- Then boil water in a large vessel add soaked rice, lemon juice, 4 cloves, 4 small cinnamon sticks, 1 teaspoon shahi jeera, 4 cardamoms, 2 teaspoons ghee, Salt as per taste.
- Let rice cook until half done, then strain water and keep aside.
- Once pressure reduces open pressure cooker and switch on the flame.
- Take out some of the gravy into one cup using a ladle.
- Add rice to cooked chicken and sprinkle fried onions on top.
- Add some chopped mint and coriander leaves, 2 teaspoons ghee (clarified butter) and the gravy which we took out.
- Here I am not using saffron or any other food colours.Now close lid and dum biryani on low flame for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Once the pressure reduces open cooker and take out the biryani from side serve hot...

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