Hyderabadi Chicken Dum Biryani
by Hana Novak
12 servings
Fried Onions (Birista)
- 3large onion
- ¾ cupneutral oil or ghee
Marinated Chicken
- 3.31 lbskinless bone-in chicken thighs and drumsticks
- 2 cupsplain yogurt, not sour
- 2 ¼ tspsalt
- ¾ tspground turmeric
- 1 to 1 ½ tbspred chili powder
- 1 to 1 ½ tbspbiryani masala or garam masala
- ¾ to 1 ½ tspground green cardamom
- 3 to 6green chilies
- 3 ¾ tbspginger garlic paste
- 3 tbsplemon juice
Par-Cooked Rice
- 4 ½ cupsaged basmati rice
- 1 tbspoil
- 3 leavesbay leaf
- 3 stickscinnamon stick (7 cm piece)
- 18whole cloves
- 12 podsgreen cardamom pods
- 3star anise
- 3 podsblack cardamom pod
- 6mace blades
- 1 ½ tspshahi jeera (caraway seeds)
Layering and Dum
- ¾ tspsaffron threads
- 9 tbsphot milk
- ¾ cupmint leaves
- 9 tbspcoriander leaves
- ¾ to 1 ½ tspbiryani masala or garam masala
- 6 tbspghee
- 3 tbspcoriander leaves, to garnish