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Chicken Dum Biryani Recipe

Crave Biryani every now and then? Then, here's a quick and easy recipe to satiate your cravings. It is such a versatile dish that various kinds of biryanis can be prepared using different vegetables and meats. Whichever part of Pakistan you are in, there is an amazing chicken dum biryani recipe waiting to be enjoyed! Here, is the step-by-step method of a mouth-watering dum biryani that you must try at home. Chicken Dum Biryani Recipe is one of the best ways to make biryani and mind you, it is full of very distinct flavours. The most important of which comes from the very many spices like cardamom, cinnamon, cloves that are added to it. These spices give the chicken biryani a tempting aroma that can be smelt from metres away. One of the major aspects of cooking dum biryani recipe is that meat should be marinated well. The more you will marinate the meat, the more it will get tender, juicy and soft to eat. The chicken biryani is everything that royalty is made of! It makes for a wonderful dish whenever you feel like showing off your cooking skills. The rice is nicely cooked separately from the chicken. Once the masala and chicken are prepared, the rice is added to the chicken to form beautiful alternate layers. It looks like a dream and also tastes like one. The Dum part of this Chicken Biryani is extremely important. That is where all the flavours of the biryani come together and develop. Chicken Dum Biryani is best served with some raita and salad. It makes for a royal dinner and one can never have enough. So, if you are planning on surprising your loved ones with a celebration of flavours then here is the chicken biryani recipe that you need to make! Follow this one-pot meal recipe and your Chicken Dum Biryani Recipe would be ready for you to relish

INGREDIENTS OF CHICKEN DUM BIRYANI
2 Servings
350 grams chopped chicken
300 grams boiled basmati rice
20 grams garam masala powder
30 mililitre ghee
10 mililitre water
1 cup wheat flour
For Marination
60 grams beaten yoghurt (curd)
15 grams garlic paste
15 grams ginger paste
salt as required
1 grams mint leaves
10 grams thinly sliced onion
1 tablespoon coriander leaves
7 grams red chilli powder
For Garnishing
2 dashes saffron
2 tablespoon onion
5 mililitre ghee
3 tablespoon water

HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN DUM BIRYANI
Step 1 / 4 Prepare The Marinade And Let The Chicken Marinate For An Hour
To prepare this Mughlai recipe, take a large bowl mix chicken with yoghurt (curd), fried onion, red chilli powder, salt, coriander leaves, mint leaves, ginger and garlic paste. Mix all the ingredients well and let the chicken marinate for about 2 hours. When the chicken is marinated, add garam masala in it

Step 2 / 4 Cook The Marinated Chicken In Ghee
Once the chicken is marinated, melt ghee in a handi over medium flame. When ghee is melted, add marinated chicken in it and fry for 2-3 minutes. Then, add water to it and cook the chicken on a low-medium flame. Put the lid on the vessel once the chicken is cooked.

Step 3 / 4 Make The Layers For Biryani
Now, add 70 per cent cooked basmati rice in it. Above the rice layer, add brown or fried onion, ghee and saffron water (saffron soaked in 2 tbsp water) and a little water.

Step 4 / 4 Cover The Pan With The Dough And Seal It
Knead a quick dough with wheat flour and seal the handi with this dough, and then cover with a lid. Let the biryani stay like this for 20 minutes. This will give the perfect dum to the biryani. Serve it hot with raita.

Tips
For making Chicken Dum Biryani when applying dum, make sure it is air-tight, else the biryani will not have a great taste.
You can also put a foil paper over the dough, and then cover the lid. This will help you in getting the perfect dum biryani.
Marinate the chicken for 1-2 hours for juicier meat.
To make sure that the meat doesnt have impurities, you can wash the meat with a pinch of salt in warm water.