How to make Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani Recipe Authentic, Step by Step Dum Method.

 Chicken Biryani (homemade) Hyderabadi.

Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani is a highly iconic product of India that is known because of its amazing taste, smell, and the unique process of making each grain of rice fragrant, called dum. Cooking this biryani at home can appear fancy, yet, with the right guidelines, anyone can cook a restaurant-dining type of Hyderabadi biryani. The stepwise recipe presents every step in a clear way and thus even a novice can be sure of doing the process correctly.

Introduction

The Hyderabadi biryani is special as chicken is cooked uncooked with a part of cooked basmati rice. This process is known as kacchi biryani and this enables the chicken juices, spices, herbs and fried onions to mix deep into the rice giving the marqueterie taste. This is what makes this dish a world-renowned product of spice, richness, aroma, and texture.

Home type Hyderabadi biryani is relatively light when compared to restaurant varieties, though it is also rich, aromatic and very satisfying. The secret is in slow cooking, correct soaking of rice, excessive use of mint and coriander and fried onions (birista). Here is a step-by-step guide which is detailed below.

Ingredients

For Marinating the Chicken

Chicken - 1kg (bone-in will be preferred)

Thick yogurt – 1 cup

Ginger -garlic paste -2 tablespoons

Red chilli powder- 1 tablespoon.

Turmeric powder – ½ teaspoon

Garam masala spice- 1 teaspoon.

Green chillies – 3 to 4 (slit)

Lemon juice – 1 tablespoon

Mint leaves – ½ cup (chopped)

Coriander leaves- 1/2 cup (chopped)

Fried onions (birista) – 1 cup

Salt – as needed

Oil or ghee – 3 tablespoons

For Rice

Basmati rice – 3 cups

Whole spices:

Bay leaves – 2

Cinnamon stick – 1 inch

Cardamom – 3

Cloves – 4

Salt – to taste

Water – for boiling

For Dum Layer

Saffron -pinch (wet in 3 tablespoons warm milk)

Ghee – 2 tablespoons

Fried onions (additional) - to be layered on top

dissolved in mint and coriander.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Step 1: Marinate the Chicken

The main ingredient in Hyderabadi biryani is marination. It makes the chicken tender, taste and moist in the long dum preparation.

1. Rinse and scrub the pieces of chicken. Blot them to get the additional moisture out.

2. Put yogurt, ginger-garlic paste, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala, salt, green chillies, lemon juice, chopped mint, chopped coriander, fried onions, and oil/ ghee in a large bowl.

3. Put the pieces of chicken in this mixture and coat them thoroughly.

4. Cover with the bowl and marinate minimum of 1 hour. Marinate: To obtain optimum results, marinate 4hours or up to 1 night in fridge.

The longer the chicken is marinated, the faster it will cook under dum and the more flavors it would have absorbed.

Step 2: Preparing the Rice

The rice that is used in Hyderabadi biryani has to be long-grain basmati, and only half-cooked (less than 70%), which completes cooking in the dum.

1. Rinse the basmati rice 2-3 times until it is clear.

2. Soak the rice for 30 minutes. This assists the grains to swell up beautifully.

3. Bring to the boil a huge pot of water, sprinkle with salt (as in pasta water), and put in the entire spices.

4. Once the water starts boiling aggressively, put the drained and soaked rice.

5. Cook the rice until it is 70% done. At the middle, the grain is supposed to split with resistance.

6. drain at once and set aside.

It is important to cook the rice correctly. At this point, in case the rice is over cooked then the biryani will become mushy during dum.

Step 3: Biryani (Dum Style) Layering.

The bottom of hyderabadi biryani is cooked with raw chicken and the top is the semi-cooked rice.

1. Take a heavy bottomed biryani pot (handi or thick steel/iron pot).

2. Marinated chicken: distribute the chicken at the bottom.

3. Sprinkle half of the 70 percent cooked rice on top of the chicken.

4. Add some fried onion, chopped mint, chopped coriander and a drizzle of ghee.

5. Add rest of the rice and repeat the garnishing.

6. Sprinkle the saffron milk on the top layer to have a beautiful color and smell.

This is the result of the layering technique that ensures that chicken cooks flawlessly and the rice gathers all the flavors.

Step 4: Dum Cooking

Hyderabadi biryani has a distinctive texture that is attributed by the dum or slow-steaming process.

Method 1: Stovetop Dum (Traditional Method)

1. Seal the lid tightly. A strip of wheat dough round the rim will help to seal better.

2. Cook the pot on full flame of 10 minutes. This activates steam inside.

3. Once more it should be cooked on low after 10 minutes and lasting 35- 40 minutes.

4. You can put a tawa (griddle) on the pot of biryani so as to avoid burning.

Method 2: Oven Dum

Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F).

Bake the covered biryani dish in 40 minutes.

At dum, the chicken is roasted in its own juices and the rice fluffy, aromatic and full of spices.

Step 5: Resting & Serving

Once the dum is complete:

1. Turn off the heat and allow the biryani to rest at 10 minutes and then open.

2. Fluff the sides of the rice very carefully without disintegrating the grains.

3. Accompanied with hot onion raita, cucumber salad, boiled eggs or mirchi ka salan.

How to make the most perfect homemade hyderabadi biryani.

The rice that should be used is always the basmati rice which has got long grains.

You should not over cook the rice prior to layer.

The longer the chicken is marinated the better and tender the meat will be.

Fried onions are to be used liberally- they are sweet and rich.

Do not be mixed up during dum, it ruins the rice.

Heavy pot will be used to prevent being burned at the bottom.

Conclusion

The preparation of Homemade Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani can be described as very time consuming but the result is truly worth it. The strata of taste, the pleasant fragrance of spices and herbs, and tender and juicy chicken make it a meal that can delight any table. Either you cook it at a family dinner, you are at a festival, or you are having a weekend meal, this recipe will make every one impressed with the authentic Hyderabadi flavor

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