Kerala Style Chicken Dum Biriyani

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:-

·         Add cooked biriyani rice on the top of chicken gravy and pieces

·         Add a little turmeric into milk and sprinkle that turmeric milk into the rice

·         Add Coriander leaves

·         Add fried cashew nuts and raisins

·         Add a little garam masala

·         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

Cheers!!!

Minu