Hyderabadi Chicken Dum Biryani

by Hana Novak

4 servings

Fried Onions (Birista)

• 1large onion
• 4 tbspneutral oil or ghee

Marinated Chicken

• 500 gskinless bone-in chicken thighs and drumsticks
• ⅔ cupplain yogurt, not sour
• ¾ tspsalt
• ¼ tspground turmeric
• 1 to 1 ½ tspred chili powder
• 1 to 1 ½ tspbiryani masala or garam masala
• ¼ to ½ tspground green cardamom
• 1 to 2green chilies
• 1 ¼ tbspginger garlic paste
• 1 tbsplemon juice

Par-Cooked Rice

• 1 ½ cupsaged basmati rice
• 1 tspoil
• 1 leafbay leaf
• 1 stickcinnamon stick (7 cm piece)
• 6whole cloves
• 4 podsgreen cardamom pods
• 1star anise
• 1 podblack cardamom pod
• 2mace blades
• ½ tspshahi jeera (caraway seeds)

Layering and Dum

• ¼ tspsaffron threads
• 3 tbsphot milk
• 4 tbspmint leaves
• 3 tbspcoriander leaves
• ¼ to ½ tspbiryani masala or garam masala
• 2 tbspghee
• 1 tbspcoriander leaves, to garnish