Hyderabadi Chicken Dum Biryani

by Hana Novak

2 servings

Fried Onions (Birista)

• ½large onion
• 2 tbspneutral oil or ghee

Marinated Chicken

• 250 gskinless bone-in chicken thighs and drumsticks
• ⅓ cupplain yogurt, not sour
• ⅓ tspsalt
• ⅛ tspground turmeric
• ½ to ¾ tspred chili powder
• ½ to ¾ tspbiryani masala or garam masala
• ⅛ to ¼ tspground green cardamom
• ½ to 1green chilies
• ⅔ tbspginger garlic paste
• ½ tbsplemon juice

Par-Cooked Rice

• ¾ cupaged basmati rice
• ½ tspoil
• ½ leafbay leaf
• ½ stickcinnamon stick (7 cm piece)
• 3whole cloves
• 2 podsgreen cardamom pods
• ½star anise
• ½ podblack cardamom pod
• 1mace blades
• ¼ tspshahi jeera (caraway seeds)

Layering and Dum

• ⅛ tspsaffron threads
• 1 ½ tbsphot milk
• 2 tbspmint leaves
• 1 ½ tbspcoriander leaves
• ⅛ to ¼ tspbiryani masala or garam masala
• 1 tbspghee
• ½ tbspcoriander leaves, to garnish