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Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani Recipe

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Jay Nelson

Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani
Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, hyderabadi chicken biryani. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have hyderabadi chicken biryani using 27 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani:
  1. Take Chicken and marinate
  2. Get 500 g chicken thigh and legs
  3. Prepare 2/3 cup yogurt
  4. Take 3/4 tsp salt
  5. Prepare 1 tsp chili powder (or more as preferred)
  6. Prepare 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
  7. Prepare 2 fresh chilis, slit
  8. Prepare 1 1/4 tbsp ginger and garlic paste
  9. Make ready 1/2 tsp cardamon powder
  10. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp biryani masala or garam masala (and a few more to assemble the biryani)
  11. Prepare 1 tbsp lemon juice
  12. Take Fried onion and garnish
  13. Make ready 1 large onion, cut into thin slices
  14. Take 1/4 cup oil or ghee
  15. Prepare 1/4 cup coriander leaves, chopped
  16. Make ready Biryani rice
  17. Make ready 1 1/2 cups long grain basmati rice
  18. Take 1 1/2 tsp salt
  19. Prepare 1 tsp oil
  20. Prepare 3 -inch cinnamon stick
  21. Take 6 cloves
  22. Take 4 green cardamon
  23. Take 1 star anise
  24. Take 1/2 tsp caraway seeds (optional)
  25. Prepare 1 black cardamon (optional)
  26. Prepare Saffron/turmeric milk
  27. Make ready 1 pinch saffron or 1 tsp turmeric powder soaked/mixed with1/4 cup full cream milk
Steps to make Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani:
  1. Mix the ingredients for the marinate. You may want to add a few tablespoon of water if the mixture is too thick. Taste and adjust for salt as needed.
  2. Score the chicken and combine with the marinate mixture. Make sure to have the mixture under the skin and marinate overnight for maximum flavor. This will also make the chicken tender and moist.
  3. Fry the onion until brown and almost crisp. Make sure not to burn or it may become bitter. Set aside.
  4. Wash the basmati rice thrice to remove excess starch. Soak in water for 30 minutes then drain.
  5. In a pot, boil about 1 liter of water and add salt, oil and the whole spices. Let simmer for 5 minutes to release the flavors of the spices.
  6. Add the basmati rice. Cook until 75% done (see packaging direction). The rice has to be undercooked, with the middle still grainy to touch. This will continue to be cooked once we assemble the biryani dish. Drain.
  7. While the rice is draining and still hot, place the chicken in a single layer in a heavy bottom pot. Top with 1/3 of the fried onion, chopped coriander, and 2 tablespoon of the oil used to fry the garlic.
  8. Cover with half of the rice. The rice should not be dripping with water nor too dry. Level the rice then top with 1/3 of the fried onion, coriander and sprinkle with a few pinch of biryani masala or garam masala powder.
  9. Cover with the remaining rice. Level it and too with the remaining fried onion, coriander and sprinkle with a few pinch of biryani masala or garam masala powder.
  10. Put about 2 tablespoon of ghee and the saffron/turmeric milk mixture divided across the top.
  11. Place an aluminum foil or damp cloth to trap the moisture and cover with a heavy lid.
  12. Place a griddle on the stove and set flame at medium high. Place the biryani pot on top of it and cook for 20 minutes. Then lower the heat to very low and cook for another 20 minutes. In the last 10 minutes of the cook, I removed the griddle and let the flame directly touch the biryani pot.
  13. Turn off heat and let rest for at least 20 minutes before opening and serving.
  14. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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