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Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani Recipe, Indian chicken Biryani
Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
1 hr
 
Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani is a flavourful and delicious combination of juicy tender chicken and aromatic rice with fresh Indian spices. Hyderabadi chicken biryani is so well-known in India that it doesn't need any introduction. It is popular not only in Hyderabad but all over the country.
Course: Main
Cuisine: Hyderabadi, Indian
Servings: 4 Servings
Author: Rachna's Kitchen
Ingredients
  • 450 grams or 1 lb bone-in-chicken
For buttermilk brine solution
  • 3 tablespoon yogurt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • water as required
For chicken marination
  • 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
  • 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
  • 1 tablespoon kashmiri red chili powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon white pepper powder
  • 1 teaspoon biryani masala
  • 1/4 teaspoon green cardamom powder
  • 1 green chili adjust as per taste
  • 3 tablespoon yogurt
  • 1 tablespoon mint sauce or crushed mint leaves
  • salt to taste
For rice preparation
  • 2 cups long grain basmati rice soaked for 20 minutes, drain and set aside
  • 4 cups water
  • 1 teaspoon oil
  • 1 aniseed
  • 2 strands of mace
  • 2 black cardamom
  • 4 green cardamom
  • 2 ” cinnamon stick
  • 8 cloves
  • 2 bay leaf
  • ½ teaspoon pepper corn
  • 1 teaspoon shahi jeera / caraway seeds
For assembling biryani
  • 2 tablespoon oil
  • Shallow fried onions from 3 medium sized onions
  • 2 tablespoon finely chopped coriander leaves
  • 2 tablespoon of finely chopped mint leaves or mint sauce
  • 2 teaspoon ghee
  • 1/4 cup boiled warm milk
  • 1 teaspoon kewra essence
  • 1 teaspoon biryani masala powder
  • 8-10 cashew nuts
  • 1 cup all purpose flour dough to seal the pot
Instructions
Brining the chicken

  1. Brining the chicken is the most important step in any biryani recipe. It makes chicken juicy and tender.

  2. Wash and clean chicken.
  3. Prepare buttermilk brine solution. To make buttermilk, add curd/ yogurt to a bowl, whisk it. Then add 2 cup water, baking soda and salt.
  4. Add chicken to the butter milk brine solution. Let it rest for at least 2 hours at room temperature.

  5. After 2 hours, drain the chicken. Now marinate chicken, add spices ginger garlic paste, lemon juice, turmeric powder, nutmeg powder, cumin powder, kashmiri red chili powder, white pepper powder, biryani masala, green cardamom powder, 1 green chili ( adjust as per taste), yogurt, mint sauce or crushed mint leaves and salt to taste.

  6. In this step I have used mint sauce as mint leaves were not available, you can use chopped mint leaves if available.
  7. Mix the whole mixture well. Let the chicken rest on kitchen counter for 1 to 2 hour.
Preparing Rice

  1.  Place a heavy bottom sauce pan over high heat. Add oil, mace, aniseed, black cardamom, green cardamom, cinnamon stick, cloves, bay leaf, pepper corn and shahi jeera (black cumin).

  2. Add rice and cook uncovered.
  3. With in 3-4 minutes rice will start bouncing in water.
  4. Cook the rice for about 5 minutes or until it is 60 % done. Be sure that rice are not over cooked.
  5. Drain the rice and add cold water to prevent further cooking.
Preparing brown onion

  1.  Heat a heavy bottom sauce pan in which biryani will be cooked. Add 2 tablespoon of oil. Once oil is hot enough, add sliced onions. Cook them on medium high flame, stirring constantly.

  2. After 6-7 minutes, onion will caramelize. Switch off the gas and keep them aside.

  3. In the same pan in which onions were cooked, add 1 teaspoon ghee or oil.

  4. Add marinated chicken and spread it into a layer. Sprinkle biryani masala, half of coriander leaves, mint leaves (mint sauce) and half of fried onions.
  5. Layer the rice all over.
  6. Spread it uniformly. Save 1/2 cup of rice and colour them yellow with turmeric powder.

  7. Sprinkle yellow coloured rice and pour 1/4rth cup of milk all over the rice.

  8. Layer the left fried onions and coriander leaves. Pour melted ghee.
  9. Sprinkle the biryani masala, kewra water and cashew nuts. You can also use rose-water instead of kewra water.

  10. Fold a kitchen cloth into square and cover the rice. It will soak all extra moisture.

  11. Cover the pot with a silver foil and put the lid on.
  12. Fold extra silver foil towards the lid and seal the pot with all purpose flour dough all around. I have used silver foil because it not only seal the steam but also make little easier to remove dough.

  13. Now cook the biryani on low heat for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes of slow cooking, dough should have become hard to touch. Then place a skillet (tawa) on low heat and place the biryani pot on it. Cook for another 15 - 20 minutes. This is called dum process. Switch off flame and let it rest for another 20 minutes.

  14.  Cut the seal with knife. Garnish the delicious Hyderabadi chicken biryani with coriander leaves and onions and serve hot.