Recipe: Yummy Kolkata style Chicken Dum Biriyani

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Recipe: Yummy Kolkata style Chicken Dum Biriyani Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Kolkata style Chicken Dum Biriyani. How to put biryani on dum. People use wheat or atta dough to seal the mouth of the biryani pan before placing it on dum. Actually dum pukht style is a traditional method of Awadhi or Oudh cuisine which maintains few conditions like lowest heat, the sealed mouth of biryani pan or handi, and lastly place burning charcoal on the lid of the handi or pan.

Great recipe for Chicken Biryani (Kolkata style). #nonv Kolkata style biriyani includes some potatoes & eggs as well into the biriyani and most of the Bengali people enjoys the biriyani with any type of raita as a side dish Kolkata style Chicken Dum Biriyani is one of the tastiest variety of biriyani recipe, which has awesome flavors and juicy chicken pieces.

You can have it as it is or with Chicken Chaap / Korma / Kosha.

I also have other Biriyani recipes in my blog.

You can have Kolkata style Chicken Dum Biriyani using 21 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Kolkata style Chicken Dum Biriyani

Prepare of chopped chicken.
It’s of long grain basmati rice.
It’s of beaten yogurt(curd).
You need of sliced onions.
Prepare of garlic paste.
Prepare of ginger paste.
You need of ghee.
It’s of cloves.
It’s of cinnamon sticks.
You need of green cardamons.
Prepare of mint leaves.
You need of kewra water.
You need of javitri(mace).
It’s of jayfal(nutmeg).
You need of sahajeera,sahamarich.
It’s of Saffron soaked in milk.
It’s of Red chilli powder.
You need of Turmeric powder.
It’s of oil.
It’s of Salt and sugar to taste.
It’s of Tomato.

Cooking Biriyani is time consuming, also the more you practice the more you will get better at this.

Calcutta or Kolkata style Chicken Biryani is a mixed rice dish inspired by Awadhi cuisine.

Biryani usually cooked with rice, Yogurt, meat and spices.

This Biryani is much lighter on spices and serving potato with meat is the speciality of Kolkata Biryani.

Kolkata style Chicken Dum Biriyani step by step

To prepare this mughlai recipe,take a large bowl mix yogurt with red chilli powder, turmeric powder along with ginger,garlic paste.Mix all the ingredients well & add chopped chicken into the mix & let the chicken marinate for about an hour..
Heat oil in a kadai,add green cardamom, sliced onions.Then add the marinated chicken & saute the chicken well..
Now add tomatoes,red chilli powder,ginger & garlic paste & fried potatoes & saute them again till the oil separated.Cook the chicken on low-medium flame..
Now on another burner boil water in a pan & add the whole spices. Once the water starts boiling add the soaked long grain basmati rice & cook it..
Dry roast the biriyani masala like nutmeg,mace, sahajeera,saha marich(white pepper) green cardamom,cinnamon & then grind them in a grinder..
In a kadai add ghee,salt,sugar,dry rosted & grinded biriyani masala, then the boiled rice. Add kewra water.Saute it for five minutes..
In a copper vessel heat ghee & then layer the fried with biriyani masala rice & then the cooked chicken & then again the rice.Now make a final layer of the garnish with mintleaves,fried onions (beresta), saffron soaked in milk & kewra water..
Make a dough of the whole wheat flour & line the lid with it. Seal the copper vessels & put the vessel in a preheated oven on 180 degree centigrate for 15 to 20 minutes..
Garnish with boiled eggs & serve hot..
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Serve the biriyani with kachumber raita..
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Hello Sharmistha, your recipe is good , but sorry to say. its not awadhi style biryani.

Kolkata has its distinct style of biryani which is on a par with the best biryanis in India—including Lucknow-style biryani and the Hyderabadi biryani.

Kolkata biryani, in spite of the usage of a staggering number of spices, is not spicy..

Set the biryani'r hnari or pan you are using for dum on low heat.

Biryani (/ b ɜːr ˈ j ɑː n i /) is a mixed rice dish with its origins among the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent.