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Chicken Dum Biryani
The main flavouring for this comes from tomatoes, chicken, baharat spice mix and the rice. So use a good quality rice and cook the chicken as mentioned. I used my homemade baharat spice mix. You can either make it your own or buy from shop. I have given the recipe for that spice mix in this post too, even though i have shared it as a separate post..
Preparation Time : 15 mins
Cooking Time : 1 1/2 hour to 2 hours
Serves : 6
Basmati Rice – 3 cups
Chicken – 1 whole chicken cut into 8 pieces with skin on
Oil – 1/4 cup
Onion – 2 large chopped finely
Garlic – 3 tblspn finely chopped
Tomatoes – 4 large chopped finely
Baharat Spice Mix – 4 to 6 tblspn (Recipe Here )
Tomato paste – 3 tblspn (Recipe here)
Orange Zest – 2 tblspn
Ghee – 2 tblspn
Carrot – 1 medium size grated
Salt to taste
Water – 4.5 cups
Whole Spices:
Cinnamon / Pattai – 4 cm piece
Bay Leaf – 3
Cardamom / Yelakai – 6
Cloves / Krambu – 6
Dried Lime – 1
For Topping:
Ghee – 4 tblspn
Almonds – 1/2 cup
Kishmish / Sultanas – 1/4 cup
For Baharat Spice Mix:
Dry Red Chilli – 8
Kashmiri Dry Red Chilli – 8
Cardamom / Yelakai – 10
Cloves / Krambu – 10
Whole Coriander Seeds / Malli – 1 tblspn
Whole Black Pepper – 2 tblspn
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tblspn
Dry Ginger Powder / Chukku Podi – 1 tblspn
Method:
For Baharat Spice Mix:
Take all the ingredients except ginger powder in a pan and roast on low heat till golden.Add in ginger powder and saute for 20 more sec.Now let them cool a bit, add it in a blender and powder it finely.Spread on a paper and let them cool a bit.Store in a air tight container.
For Kabsa:
Wash and soak basmati rice for 1 hour. Soak almonds in hot water till use.
Heat a large pan with oil. Add in onions, garlic and salt. Saute for 2 mins or so.
Now add in chicken skin side down and sear it for 10 mins on each side..
Add in tomatoes, baharat, tomato puree, whole spices, orange zest and mix well. Now add in water and mix well. Bring it to a boil, cover and simmer for 30 to 40 mins till the chicken is cooked completely.
Now preheat oven to 250 degree C. Set oven to grill or broil mode.Line a baking tray with foil and grease it well with oil.
Now remove the cooked chicken from the mix and arrange it skin side up on a baking tray. Sprinkle the top with some more baharat and drizzle some oil over it and pop it into the oven and grill for 5 mins or so till the skin is crispy.
Heat some 2 tblspn ghee in a pan, add in carrots and saute it for 5 mins.
Now add the drained basmati rice into the liquid, Add in sauted carrots and mix well. Cook on high heat till everything comes to a boil. Now cover with a tight lid or a foil and a lid and simmer it for 20 to 30 mins till the rice has absorbed all the liquid,
Now peel off the almonds and slice it. heat some ghee in a pan, add in almonds and fry till golden. Add in kishmish and saute till golden.
Once the rice is cooked, Fluff it with a fork. Cover and set aside for 30 mins.
Spoon rice onto a serving plate, cover with broiled chicken and sprinkle with nuts.
Serve.
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Soak rice for 1 hour |
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| Take almonds in a bowl |
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| cover with hot water and let it soak |
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| Heat oil in a big pot |
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| add in onions |
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| garlic |
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| season with some salt |
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| saute lightly |
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| now it has turned light golden |
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| place chicken skin side down. |
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| Sear it and flip over |
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| add in tomatoes |
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| mix well |
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| add in baharat |
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| tomato paste |
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| add in whole spices |
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| add in orange zest |
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| mix well and cook for few more mins |
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| Add in water |
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| Mix well.. |
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| Bring it to a boil |
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| cover and simmer for 30 to 40 mins till chicken is done |
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| While chicken is cooking, i peeled almonds |
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| Sliced it like this |
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| Now the chicken is done |
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| remove it from the pot |
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| arrange it in a foil lined baking tray..I greased the foil with some oil |
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| sprinkle the top of chicken with baharat spice mix |
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| drizzle top with oil |
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| Put it under broil mode and grill it for few mins till golden |
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| Heat ghee in a pan |
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| add in carrots |
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| saute till golden |
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| add in drained rice |
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| add in grated carrots |
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| Mix well.. |
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| cover with foil |
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| place a plate on top and cook on a low heat till it is done |
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| Now heat ghee in a pan, add almonds in |
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| fry till golden |
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| once it gets golden, add sultanas in |
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| fry lightly |
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| Now the chicken is well browned as well |
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| now the rice is cooked |
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| Take a serving plate |
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| spoon the rice in it |
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| place chicken |
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| scatter with nuts |
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| Serve |
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The original recipe has the chicken skin on and very less spice as they eat it with raw green chili . Haven't you added the dried lime..
@Subi i didn't have dried lime so i didn't add it. but i have mentioned dried lime in the written part/
Made this and it came out really good. Thanks for the recipe
any alternAtive for grilling???
you can pan fry it.
In which stage should we add dried lime ??
In which stage should we add dries lime ?
what is orange zest is it must?
Hi arthi sister,
Please can u teach me the achari chicken recipe
How can we do the same in vegetarian way? Can we use Paneer?
you can try, but not sure of the taste.
So delicious I love it, I have an doubt which mutton curry is good in your website please suggest me
It is so delicious, I have one doubt which mutton curry is so tasty in your website. Please suggest me*
Try mutton chops and mutton masala
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I tried this recipe today and it came out so perfectly. We live in the gulf and it’s the exact taste as they make it in Arabic homes.. Thank you so much for this detailed explanation.