Special Degi Chicken Biryani

 

Degi Chicken Biryani

Overall biryani is a popular main course meal dish of the sub-continent. People of all categories across the sub-continent and over the world where said peoples are residing, like this dish very much.

Chicken biryani is a different style of biryani and very popular among rice lovers. Cooking of Degi Chicken Biryani is a lille bit of different style different from routine biryani but taste is unique and delicious too. Let us see its ingredients and procedure that how it is cooked:-

 

Ingredients:

To Cook Biryani Qorma

1. Chicken (چکن): 3~3.5 Kg

2. Onion: 1 Kg

3. Tomato: 3/4 Kg (750 Grams)

4. Garlic (لہسن)+Ginger(ادرک): 4 Table Spoon

5. Oil: 2 Cups (500ml)

6. Curd/Dahi (دہی) : 500 Ml/Grams

7. Lemon: (لیموں)  6X

8. Green Chili (سبز دھنیا): 10~12X

9. Coriander Powder (دحنیا پائوڈر): 3 Table Spoon

10. Spice (گرم مصالحہ) : 1 Table Spoon

11. Red Chili (سرخ مرچ): 3 Table Spoon

12. Red Chili Flakes (دڑا مرچ) : 1.5 Table Spoon

13. Turmeric (ہلدی) : 1 Table Spoon

14. Dry Plum: 8~10X

15. Cumin (زیرہ): 1.5 Table Spoon

16. Salt (نمک): 2 Table Spoon

17. Bay Leaves (تیز پات): 5~6X

18. Black Cardamom (کالی آلائچی) : 4X

19. Green Cardamom (سبز آلائچی) : 6~7X

20. Cinnamon (دار چینی) : 6~7X sticks

21. Star Anise (بادیان کے پھول) : 4~5X

22. Black Pepper (کالی مرچ): 1 Table Spoon

23. Clove (لونگ) : 10~15X

24. Mace (جاوتری) : 3~4X

 

(To boil/Cook the Rice)

1. (چاول)1 Kg

2. Cumin (زیرہ) : 1 Tea Spoon

3. Pepper (کالی مرچ): 10~12

4. Clove (لونگ) : 6~8X

5. Green Cardamom (سبز آلائچی) : 5~6

6. Black Cardamom (کالی آلائچی) : 2X

7. Bay Leaves (تیز پات): 2X

8. Cinnamon (دار چینی) : 2~3 sticks

9. Salt (نمک): 4 Tea Spoon (1 Tea Spoon=250 grams)

10. Star Anise (بادیان کے پھول) : 2 Flowers

 

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Procedure

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Step-1: Pour Oil along with some quantity of Whole Spice and let it fry a little.

Step-2: Add onion initially on high flame in that mixture and let it fried till its colour change into brown.

Step-3: Make a smooth mixture of Coriander, Spices, Red Chili, Chili Flakes, Turmeric, Dry Plum, Cumin in the Curd

 

Step-4: Take out more than half of brown onion out and with the remaining oil pour the paste of ginger and garlic and cook for 1~2 minutes.

 

Step-5: Add salt now, fry a little and then add chicken as well till its colour change into light brown....

Step-6: Now add tomatoes and steam cook for 2~3 minutes....

Step-7: When tomatoes become tender add mixture of curd and fry further.....

Step-8: Add chicken in that mixture and cook further by adding green chili & Coriander leaves, lemon juice mix well and steam cook for 5 minutes and Qorma for Biryani is ready.

Step-9: For Boling of RICE: place pot on stove and add mint leaves, whole spice, salt & Oil (3~4 Table Spoon) in water and let it boil.

 

Step-10: When rice start boiling add 2 table spoon of white vinegar, stir a while and strain for further process.

 

Step-11: Now different layers of ingredients are laid one by one.

 

Step-12: AT last initially steam cook at medium flame until lid of the pot become hot than after that 10~15 minutes at low flame

 

Tips for enhanced cooking:

  • If the chicken is cooked in its own water or mixture of curd then it will be more tasty

  • Use of lemon enhance the taste and preserve the breakage of meat.

  • Use of green ingredients in reasonable quantity like coriander and mint are very useful to enhance the taste.

  • At bottom layer of oil is effective for avoiding rice stickiness with the pot.

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