Kachi Biryani is one of the very popular and delicious of all Biryanis. It is cooked using slow cooking Dum method. Below is a very special recipe of Kachi Biryani or Hyderabadi Dum Biryani recipe:
Ingredients:
- Rice 4 cups or 1 kg
- One chicken 12 - 16 pieces or 1 kg mutton
- Curd - half cup
- red chili powder 2 tsp
- Onion 3 - sliced into thin pieces
- Ginger/Garlic paste 1 tbsp
- oil one cup
- salt 1 1/2 tsp or to taste
- cinnamon stick - 1
- green cardamoms 4 - 6
- cloves 4
- saffron one pinch or as desired
- yellow food color one pich or as desired
- fresh mint
- fresh coriander
- Lemon juice 2 - 3 tbsp
- green chilies (small) around 6 - 8
For boiling the basmati rice:
- black caraway seeds (kala zeera) 1 tsp
- cinnamon one stick
- salt 1 tbsp
- Bay leaf one or two leaves
Cooking Method:
- Fry onion slices in a wok in one cup of oil until golden brown and take out.
- Take a bowl and marinate chicken or lamb with ginger/garlic paste, red chili powder, salt, half of the fried onions, 1/2 cup oil (which was used to fry onions), cinnamon, cloves, green cardamoms, curd, lemon juice, chopped mixture of green chilies, fresh coriander and mint leaves.
- Now mix all the ingredients in the bowl and let the chicken marinate for two to three hours.
- Boil soaked basmati rice with salt, black caraway seeds (kala zeera), bay leaves, cinnamon and green cardamoms.
- Drain the water from rice when they are 1/3 rd done and set them aside.
- Now take a bigger cooking pot and add layer of marinated chicken or lamb, then rice.
- Pour 2 - 3 tbsp oil on rice (from left over oil which we used for frying the onions).
- Sprinkle brown onions, chopped fresh coriander and mint.
- Add saffron and yellow food color mixed in water.
- Now seal the cooking pot lid tightly and turn the heat on.
- Start from flame on high heat for first couple of minutes, once you hear some noise from the pot as it starts cooking, set the flame to low.
- Cook on low flame/heat for around 15 minutes it you are cooking chicken, if its mutton cook it for around 30 - 35 minutes.
- This special Nawabi Kachi Biryani is served with raita.
