Hyderabadi Chicken Dum Biryani

by Hana Novak

8 servings

Fried Onions (Birista)

• 2large onion
• ½ cupneutral oil or ghee

Marinated Chicken

• 2.2 lbskinless bone-in chicken thighs and drumsticks
• 1 ⅓ cupsplain yogurt, not sour
• 1 ½ tspsalt
• ½ tspground turmeric
• 2 tsp to 1 tbspred chili powder
• 2 tsp to 1 tbspbiryani masala or garam masala
• ½ to 1 tspground green cardamom
• 2 to 4green chilies
• 2 ½ tbspginger garlic paste
• 2 tbsplemon juice

Par-Cooked Rice

• 3 cupsaged basmati rice
• 2 tspoil
• 2 leavesbay leaf
• 2 stickscinnamon stick (7 cm piece)
• 12whole cloves
• 8 podsgreen cardamom pods
• 2star anise
• 2 podsblack cardamom pod
• 4mace blades
• 1 tspshahi jeera (caraway seeds)

Layering and Dum

• ½ tspsaffron threads
• 6 tbsphot milk
• ½ cupmint leaves
• 6 tbspcoriander leaves
• ½ to 1 tspbiryani masala or garam masala
• ¼ cupghee
• 2 tbspcoriander leaves, to garnish