Hyderabadi biryani is one of the most popular biryani recipe. Create it at home to make a mark at your dinner party! Half boiled rice layered with fried onions, mint, cooked chicken, slow cooked 'dum' style.
Coupled with flavors of spices delicately combined with rice and chicken makes an aromatic combination that is hard to resist. How to make this Biryani recipe? This rice dish has two major ingredients – chicken and basmati rice.
The rest is playing around with ingredients and spice mix to create this flavorful Chicken Biryani.
Ingredients
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Chicken (pieces)
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1 kg
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Rice (soaked)
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1 kg
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Yogurt
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1 cup
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Black peppercorns
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8
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Black cumin seeds
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1 tsp
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Cloves
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4
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Green cardamoms
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8
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Red chili powder
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1 tbsp
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Yellow food color
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Little
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White vinegar
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1 tbsp
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Raw papaya (paste)
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2 tbsp
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Garlic/ginger paste
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1 ½ tbsp
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Mint leaves (cut finely)
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1 bunch
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Onions (cut finely)
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4
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Lemons
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6
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Green chilies
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6
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Milk (hot)
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1 cup
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Salt
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To taste
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Clarified butter
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1 cup
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Method
Marinate chicken with papaya, red chilies, garlic/ginger, juice from 2 lemons, cardamoms, 1/2 mint, green chilies, black pepper and cloves; set aside for hour.
Cook over low flame until meat is tender and water dries.
Heat oil in a separate pot; fry onions and remove.
Add chicken to same pot and fry.
Par-boil rice with remaining mint, 6 green chilies, remaining cardamoms, black cumin, vinegar and salt in a separate pot.
Grease the bottom of a pot; layer it with 1/2 rice, followed by chicken, 1/2 onions, juice from 2 lemons, and remaining rice.
Sprinkle food color resolved in milk over rice.
Add remaining onions and juice from remaining lemons; put on dum.
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