Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chicken dum biriyani kolkata style. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Kolkata Chicken Biryani or Bengali style Chicken Dum Biryani is an epitome of indulgence in delicate delicious food. Typical Kolkata biryani which is adopted from Awadhi style Biryani. Authentic Indian Bengali Kolkata or Calcutta style Mughlai chicken dum biryani recipe, learn how to make or cook delicious, aromatic chicken dum biryani step by step.
Chicken dum Biriyani kolkata style is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Chicken dum Biriyani kolkata style is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken dum biriyani kolkata style using 44 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken dum Biriyani kolkata style:
- Make ready For marination chicken
- Get 500-600 gm Chicken skinout biriyani cut
- Prepare 1 cup yougart/ curd
- Make ready 2 tsp onion paste
- Prepare 1 tsp ginger paste
- Get 1 tsp garlic paste
- Take 1 tsp green chilli paste
- Get For cooking rice
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups long grains basmati rice/biriyani rice
- Make ready 3-4 green cardamoms
- Get 2-3 bay leaves
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Prepare For chicken cooking tempering
- Take 2 bay leaves
- Prepare 2 red chillies
- Prepare 1 " cinnamon stick
- Prepare 2-3 green cardamoms
- Take 3-4 cloves
- Get biriyani masala(all ingredients powdered)
- Get 1 mace/ javitri
- Make ready 1/2 nutmeg/ jaifal
- Prepare 4-5 green cardamoms
- Make ready 2 red chillies
- Prepare 8-10 black pepper
- Take 3 " cinnamon sticks
- Get 6-7 cloves
- Make ready Other ingredients for chicken cooking
- Get 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp corriender powder
- Make ready 1 tsp ginger paste
- Take 1/2 tsp garlic paste
- Prepare 3 medium onions chopped
- Get 5-6 tsp ghee
- Get For layering
- Get 2-3 medium potatoes cuts into half 80 percent boiled
- Make ready 3-4 onions birista/crisp fried onion
- Make ready 1 tsp Kewra water
- Get 1/2 tsp rose water optional
- Prepare 2-3 drops meetha atar
- Get 5-6 string saffrons
- Get 1 cup milk
- Prepare 2 tsp ghee
- Prepare Salt as required
- Take Sugar as required
Whenever I had an opportunity I used to visit Bangalore and try Kolkata style Biryani at Lazeez in Commercial Street. Kolkata Style Chicken Dum Biryani is light and fragrant with aromatic biryani masala. Succulent chicken pieces with sweet-scented long grain basmati rice is a combination to die for. Be it Hyderabadi biryani or Awadhi biryani or Kolkata style Biryani , it makes me weak in the knees.
Steps to make Chicken dum Biriyani kolkata style:
- Marinate the chicken with all ingredients and keep it for atleast 1 hr.
- Put ghee, pinch of sugar,and fry marinated chicken in medium flame untill chicken start becoming golden. Keep aside.
- In same pan add ghee give tempering, wait for aroma of spices then add chopped onions, fry till golden brown, then add ginger garlic paste, salt followed by other masala. Put chicken pieces and cook low to medium heat untill it cooked. Keep aside it for layering.
- For cooking rice take 41/2 cup water, put into boil add spices to boiling water, add rice. Cook rice upto 70-80 percent done. Keep aside the rice for cooking.
- Boiled potatoes fry medium heat with ghee and pinch of sugar. If you want to add boiled eggs so same way you can fry eggs. Keep aside potatoes for layering.
- Put saffrons into milk for nice colour and keep aside for layering.
- Kewra water and mitha atar keep aside for layering.
- Grease a deep thick bottomed kadai/pan with ghee. Add rice in the first layer.Now add a layer of potatoes and some birista. sprinkle some biriyani masala.
- Again layer of rice then put layer of chicken with gravy. Don't put chicken and gravy in one place, spread it equally on that layer. Then put another layer of rice. On top rest of birista. Put kewra water, rose water,drop of mittha atar, sprinkle of biriyani masala and saffron milk. All spread equally not in one place. At last put ghee and seal with lid.
- Either you can use dough or alluminium foil for sealing or anything else. Put on sim/ low heat for 15-20 mins. Then another 3-4 mins put flame high. Open the seal and give a gentle mix every layer to side.
- Serve hot with onion salad, raita or chicken chaap.
- Note: everything prepared first, then start cooking. Timming is very important. While layering rice should be hot-warm then good. Prepared saffron milk at starting point of biriyani making then it get enough time for nice colour. Ghee is main ingredient for this biriyani so try to put generous amount. You can skip ghee to white oil too but taste will differ. For dum thick bottom pan is required otherwise it will burn to bottom.
Biryani ranks at the top of my favourite food list. Whenever there is a special occasion in my house, the very first dish comes to my mind is Biryani. It is a very well known Mughlai dish, cooked with meat and rice in dum. Calcutta Style Chicken Biryani is quite distinct in flavour among the other famous regional biryani recipes and stands out with the use of potato in Now take a heavy bottomed non-stick Biryani pot or earthen pot and grease it with ghee. Spread one layer of rice and top it with a layer of chicken gravy.
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