Recipe: Tasty Kolkata style Chicken Dum Biriyani

Kolkata style Chicken Dum Biriyani.

You can cook Kolkata style Chicken Dum Biriyani using 23 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Kolkata style Chicken Dum Biriyani

1. You need 1 kg of chopped chicken.
2. It's 500 gm of long grain basmati rice.
3. It's 250 gm of beaten yogurt(curd).
4. Prepare 200 gm of ghee.
5. You need 50 gm of sliced onions.
6. It's 25 gm of ginger paste.
7. It's 25 gm of garlic paste.
8. Prepare 10 gm of cloves.
9. Prepare 10 gm of cinnamon stick.
10. It's 10 gm of javitri(mace).
11. It's 10 gm of Shahi jeera.
12. You need 10 gm of White pepper.
13. Prepare 5 gm of jayfal(nutmeg).
14. You need 4-5 of Saffrons string soaked in milk.
15. You need 5 ml of kewra water.
16. Prepare 50 gm of mint leaves.
17. You need to taste of Red chilli powder.
18. Prepare 2 tbsp of oil.
19. Prepare of Salt & sugar to taste.
20. Prepare 1 tsp of Turmeric powder.
21. You need 2 pinch of Black pepper.
22. Prepare 1 cup of Beresta(fried onions).
23. Prepare 2 of Tomato.

Kolkata style Chicken Dum Biriyani instructions

1. To prepare this mughlai recipe take a large bowl,mix yogurt(curd) with red chilli powder,turmeric powder along with ginger & garlic paste..
2. Mix all the ingredients well & add chopped chicken, salt to the mix & let the chicken marinate for about an hour..
3. Heat oil in a kadai,add green cardamom, sliced onions.Then add the marinated chicken & saute the chicken well..
4. Now add tomatoes, red chilli powder, ginger & garlic paste,fried potatoes & sautev them again till the oil separated..
5. Cook the chicken on low-medium flame..
6. Now on another burner boil water in a pan & add the whole spices.Once the water starts boiling add the soaked long grain basmati rice & cook it..
7. Dry roast the biriyani masala like nutmeg, mace, sahajeera,saha marich (white pepper), green cardamom, cinnamon stick, cloves,black pepper & then grind them in a grinder..
8. In a kadai heat ghee,then add salt,sugar, roated & grinded biriyani masala.Then add the boiled rice.Add kewra water..
9. In a copper vessel heat ghee & then layer the cooked & fried rice,then the cooked chicken & then again the cooked biriyani masala rice..
10. Now make a final layer of the garnish with mint leaves,saffon soaked in milk, kewra water & beresta (fried onions)..
11. Make a dough of the wheat flour & line the lid with it.Seal the copper vessel & put the vessel in a preheated oven on 180 degree centigrate for 15 to 20 minutes..
12. Garnish the biriyani with boiled eggs & serve hot..
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14. Serve the biriyani with kachumber raita..
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