How to Prepare Chicken Dum Biryani in Telugu
Ingredients
- Chicken –250 grams
- Red chili powder – 2 table spoons
- Salt – to taste
- Turmeric – one pinch
- Ginger garlic paste – 2 table spoons
- Curd -1/4 liter
- Biryani spices – few
- Biryani masala – 1 table spoon
- Cardamom -2 or 3 cloves
- Mint leaves – 2 bunches
- Onions -2 or 3
- Green chillie-4
- Lemon -1
- Shajira – ½ tea spoon
- Tasting salt – 1 pinch
- Drinking water – sufficient quantity
- Coriander leaves -1 bunch
- Rice- ¼ kg
Preparation method
- Wash chicken thoroughly
- Keep Curd, washed mint leaves in reach
- Soak masala spices and drain the water
- Keep Washed coriander, ginger garlic paste, lemon, salt , red chili powder and biryani masala in reach .
- Now add salt as per taste and two table spoon of chili powder in chicken bowl.
- You can add more spice powder if you want a pungent taste in biryani
- Now add biryani masala and ginger garlic paste to bowl of chicken.
- Now add readily available soaked biryani spices.
- Gently mix the entire mixture so that all the ingredients blend well
- Now add ¼ liter of curd to the mixture.
- Mix well again.
- Now add the bunch of washed coriander and
- Add bunch of washed mint leaves
- Mix it well again
- Now squeeze lemon juice into mixture without seeds.
- Generally one lemon juice would be sufficient, if you like more sour taste, you can add more.
- While squeezing the lemon into the mixture, make sure there are no lemon seeds, otherwise, it will cause bitter taste.
- Now add a pinch of turmeric, shajira and tasting salt to the mixture.’
- Make sure you add only little tasting salt and shajira to the chicken mixture, otherwise, it will differ in the taste.
- Now switch on the stove to fry onions
- Place a frying pan and add oil enough to fry onions.
- Once the oil heats up, add cleanly washed and thinly sliced onions (lengthwise).
- Keep string the onions in the pain so that they cook well.
- Keep the flame low if you feel necessary.
- Otherwise keep the flame high and keep stirring.
- After the onions turn into brown color, switch of the stove
- Take them into separate plate.
- Keeping them in the same pan will leave them burned.
- We are going to use the left over oil in the frying pan for Dum biryani so, keep it aside.
- To prepare rice, switch on the stove and place two glasses water in a vessel.
- After the water boils up, add washed ¼ kg rice to the water.
- Take a hand spoon and mix the rice well.
- After 5 minutes, you will observe the rice partially cooked.
- Switch off the stove Close the lid on the rice.
- Dain the leftover water in partially cooked to another bowl
- Now take deep frying pan and spread chicken mixture at the bottom of the vessel.
- Add sliced green chilies on the mixture
- now add fried onion
- Now add left over oil while frying onions.
- If you love ghee taste, add two table spoons of ghee or else, you can add oil.
- Mix the mixture well and spread over entire pan.
- Add partially boiled rice to the mixture
- Spread it evenly so that entire chicken mixture is covered
- Sprinkle left over fried onions over rice
- Add little leftover water(while cooking rice) to the mixture
- Switch on the stove and place the vessel on it.
- Close the pan with the lid and cover the lid with neat and clean cloth.
- Place a weight on the lid so that the vapor does not escape.
- Keep the flame low for after 5 minutes
- After 10 minutes, check if the Dum biryani is ready
- Take the lid off and check if the rice is soft
- Now biryani is ready.
- Mix the entire rice and chicken mixture so that it blends well with each other.
- Delicious chicken dum biryani is ready to serve
