How to Prepare Homemade Traditional Kerala Chicken Dum Biriyani

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, traditional kerala chicken dum biriyani. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Traditional Kerala Chicken Dum Biriyani is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Traditional Kerala Chicken Dum Biriyani is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook traditional kerala chicken dum biriyani using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Kerala Chicken Dum Biriyani:

1. Make ready For Rice
2. Make ready 1 kg Basmati Rice
3. Prepare 1 tbsp Whole spices (cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves)
4. Make ready Juice of one large lemon
5. Make ready 1 tbsp Ghee
6. Make ready to taste Salt
7. Make ready For Gravy
8. Get 1 kg Chicken
9. Get 4 onion sliced
10. Make ready 1/2 cup ginger, garlic, green chilli paste
11. Get 2 large Tomato
12. Take 1/2-1 tsp turmeric powder
13. Prepare 1 tsp Garam masala
14. Get Paste of 1/2 cup cashewnut, 1/2cup coconut and 1tbsp curd
15. Make ready 1 cup mint and coriander leaves
16. Take 2 tbsp veg oil
17. Take For Dum
18. Take 3 drops Pineapple essence / fresh grated pineapple
19. Prepare 3 tbsp ghee
20. Get 1 cup mint and coriander leaves
21. Take 1 cup garnishing mix (mentioned below)
22. Prepare For Garnishing
23. Prepare Fry (1 onion, 1tbsp cup cashewnut and 1tbsp Raisins)

Steps to make Traditional Kerala Chicken Dum Biriyani:

1. Wash and Soak the rice for 30 mins. In a large pot boil water and add whole spices, ghee and salt. Add the soaked rice. When the rice is almost cooked add lemon juice. Strain the rice from water. *Important: (Rice should not be completely cooked as it will be cooked again in dum). Keep the cooked rice aside.
2. Now time for Gravy. Heat a large pan. Pour oil saute onion with some salt. When the onion changes colour and becomes soft add ginger,garlic, chilli paste and saute till raw smell goes. Add chopped tomatoes and saute. When tomatoes are well cooked, add turmeric powder and garam masala powder. Saute well. When the masala is cooked add cleaned Chicken. Mix well with masala. Add chopped mint and coriander leaves and cook. When half cooked add coconut cashew paste (mentioned along ingredients).
3. Combine well and cook until the gravy thickens and chicken is well cooked. Now the gravy is Ready.
4. It's time for dum now. Take a large biriyani pot. Heat to make sure there is no presence of water in it. Now take away from flame. Into the pot add 2tsp ghee and grease the base of the pot well.
5. Add a thick layer of rice above the rice add another layer of gravy above that sprinkle some mint and Coriander leaves, ghee, pineapple essence and garnish mix (mentioned along ingredients). Repeat the process until u finish layering complete rice and gravy.
6. When you finish layering add a tbsp of garam masala and close well with a lid such that the steam will not escape.
7. Keep the pot on a low flame for dum upto 30 mins.
8. After 30 mins you perfect chicken Dum biriyani is ready.

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