How to Prepare Homemade Traditional Kerala Chicken Dum Biriyani

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Traditional Kerala Chicken Dum Biriyani is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Traditional Kerala Chicken Dum Biriyani is something which I have loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Kerala Chicken Dum Biriyani:

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

Instructions 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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