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Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani Recipe

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Derek Bowen

Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani
Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, hyderabadi chicken biryani. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook hyderabadi chicken biryani using 27 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani:
  1. Get Chicken and marinate
  2. Take chicken thigh and legs
  3. Make ready yogurt
  4. Get salt
  5. Prepare chili powder (or more as preferred)
  6. Take turmeric powder
  7. Get fresh chilis, slit
  8. Prepare ginger and garlic paste
  9. Prepare cardamon powder
  10. Get biryani masala or garam masala (and a few more to assemble the biryani)
  11. Prepare lemon juice
  12. Take Fried onion and garnish
  13. Make ready large onion, cut into thin slices
  14. Get oil or ghee
  15. Prepare coriander leaves, chopped
  16. Prepare Biryani rice
  17. Take long grain basmati rice
  18. Take salt
  19. Take oil
  20. Take -inch cinnamon stick
  21. Take cloves
  22. Get green cardamon
  23. Get star anise
  24. Make ready caraway seeds (optional)
  25. Take black cardamon (optional)
  26. Make ready Saffron/turmeric milk
  27. Prepare saffron or 1 tsp turmeric powder soaked/mixed with1/4 cup full cream milk
Steps to make Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani:
  1. Mix the ingredients for the marinate. You may want to add a few tablespoon of water if the mixture is too thick. Taste and adjust for salt as needed.
  2. Score the chicken and combine with the marinate mixture. Make sure to have the mixture under the skin and marinate overnight for maximum flavor. This will also make the chicken tender and moist.
  3. Fry the onion until brown and almost crisp. Make sure not to burn or it may become bitter. Set aside.
  4. Wash the basmati rice thrice to remove excess starch. Soak in water for 30 minutes then drain.
  5. In a pot, boil about 1 liter of water and add salt, oil and the whole spices. Let simmer for 5 minutes to release the flavors of the spices.
  6. Add the basmati rice. Cook until 75% done (see packaging direction). The rice has to be undercooked, with the middle still grainy to touch. This will continue to be cooked once we assemble the biryani dish. Drain.
  7. While the rice is draining and still hot, place the chicken in a single layer in a heavy bottom pot. Top with 1/3 of the fried onion, chopped coriander, and 2 tablespoon of the oil used to fry the garlic.
  8. Cover with half of the rice. The rice should not be dripping with water nor too dry. Level the rice then top with 1/3 of the fried onion, coriander and sprinkle with a few pinch of biryani masala or garam masala powder.
  9. Cover with the remaining rice. Level it and too with the remaining fried onion, coriander and sprinkle with a few pinch of biryani masala or garam masala powder.
  10. Put about 2 tablespoon of ghee and the saffron/turmeric milk mixture divided across the top.
  11. Place an aluminum foil or damp cloth to trap the moisture and cover with a heavy lid.
  12. Place a griddle on the stove and set flame at medium high. Place the biryani pot on top of it and cook for 20 minutes. Then lower the heat to very low and cook for another 20 minutes. In the last 10 minutes of the cook, I removed the griddle and let the flame directly touch the biryani pot.
  13. Turn off heat and let rest for at least 20 minutes before opening and serving.
  14. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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