Hyderabadi Chicken Dum Biryani

Ingredients:

For Marination:

• Chicken - 500 gms
• Bay Leaf - 1 (small)
• Cloves - 3
• Cinnamon - 2 strips (small ones)
• Cumin Seeds - 1/4 tsp
• Green Cardamom - 1
• Mint Leaves - handfull of leaves
• Corriander Leaves - few sprigs
• Thick Curd - 2 to 3 tbsp
• Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tbsp
• Green Chilli - 1 (big)
• Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
• Red Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
• Corriander Powder - 1 tsp
• Cumin Powder - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - as required (for the gravy alone)

Method:

• Take a deep bottomed vessel and add all the items given in to marinate.
• Leave it to marinate for 1-2 hours.
• Heat Oil and cook the marinated meat in a medium flame for 20 min.

For Rice :

• Basmathi Rice - 2 cups (Good brand, thin long rice)
• Water - 4 cups
• Oil - 1 tbsp
• Salt - as required (for Rice alone)
• Cardamom - 1
• Bat leaf - 1
• Cinnamon - 1
• Clove - 1

Method:

• Soak the rice for 20 mins.
• Drain the water from rice in a big, wide vessel.
• Add oil and salt to the boiling water.
• Now add Cardamom, Clove,Cinnamon and bay leaf to it.
• Once bubbles are seen, add the drained rice.
• Cook the rice till its 75% done.

For frying:

• Onions - 1 (Big, Thin slices)
  
• Corn flour - 2 tbsp
• Oil to fry

Method:

• Take a bowl and mix the onions with dry corn flour powder
• Deep fry the corn flour coated onions till dark brown(see to it that you dont get them black).

Final arrangement :

• Take a deep-bottomed vessel and pour the half cooked Chicken gravy.
• Take a spoon and spread it evenly.
• Add a layer of deep fried onions.
• Then add a layer of mint leaves.
• Add the half-cooked basmathi rice as the next layer.
• Add a layer of deep fried onions.
• Now add a layer of mint leaves.
• Add Orange food color.


• Heat a old dosa tawa in a high flame for 5 to 10 min.
• Cover the multi-layered deep-bottomed vessel with a v
• 
  ery tight lid.
• Place it on the hot tawa in a high flame for 5 min.
• Reduce the flame to medium and put it for 5 min.
• Now reduce the flame to low and put it for another 10 min.
• Put off the flame and allow it to cool.
• Open the lid and mix the rice with care.

Serve Hot with Raitha .

Sending this to Chicken feast.