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Calcutta/Kolkata Chicken Biryani is a mixed rice dish inspired by Awadhi cuisine. Biryani usually cooked with rice, Yogurt, meat and spices. Easy to make Kolkata Style Chicken Biryani recipe by Sanjeev Kapoor Log on to www.daawat.com for more!
Kolkata Style Chicken Biriyani is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Kolkata Style Chicken Biriyani is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have kolkata style chicken biriyani using 27 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Kolkata Style Chicken Biriyani:
- Take For Biriyani Masala:
- Get Shahi Jeera
- Make ready Coriander Seeds
- Get Black Peppercorns
- Get White Peppercorns
- Take Black Cardamom
- Get Green Cardamom
- Get whole nutmeg (jaifal)
- Get whole maces (javetri flower)
- Make ready Cloves, 1/2 Cinnamon Sticks,
- Prepare Star Anise, 2 tbsp Fennel Seeds, half tbsp Kabab Chini
- Make ready For Chicken Marination:
- Take Chicken cut into medium pieces
- Make ready Big Onions very thin sliced (for beresta)
- Get Ginger-Garlic-green chilli paste
- Take hung curd
- Make ready Red Chilli powder
- Make ready Salt, Sugar
- Make ready Vegetable Oil, Ghee
- Take For Biriyani Rice:
- Take Basmati Rice
- Take each Rose Water, Kewra water
- Take Potato cut into medium pieces
- Make ready Green cardamom, 2/3 Bay leaves, 4/5 Clove, 1 Cinnamon stick
- Prepare Saffron Milk (Saffron soaked in warm milk for 30 minutes)
- Take Khova
- Make ready Boiled Eggs
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Instructions to make Kolkata Style Chicken Biriyani:
- Dry roast all the whole spices in a hot tawa for 3-4 mins (make sure they don't get burnt). Take them off the heat and let them cool a little. Put all the spices in blender and make fine powder…keep it aside.
- Marinate the chicken pieces with curd, red chilli powder, ginger-garlic-green chilli paste, and salt for 45 minutes to 1 hour
- Wash Basmati Rice very well and soak in water for 30 mins. Take a clean piece of cotton cloth, put the whole spices in it and tie a knot. Now heat the water and put the cloth in it. Once the water comes to boil add the soaked rice. Add little salt. Cook for 3-4 mins and drain the water. Remove the spices.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of ghee/oil in a deep & heavy bottomed pan.fry potato pieces and keep aside. Add chopped onions and very little sugar (for caramelise) fry till soft and lightly browned….this is called beresta. Keep it aside.
- Now again heat oil/ghee in pan, add chopped onions. Add the marinated chicken once the onion is translucent. Sprinkle 1 tbsp of prepared Biriyani Masala and cook for 10-12 mins covered with lid on low flame. Add little water if required.
- Take a heavy bottomed pan grease well with ghee or oil. First put the potatoes, chicken legs at the bottom, top it up with 2 tbs of gravy, add a layer of rice, beresta, sprinkle biriyani masala, sprinkle shredded khova, few drops of rose and kewra water, 2 tbsp saffron milk. Prepare several layers like this. Finish it with a dollop of ghee.
- Seal the mouth of the pot with wheat flour dough to tighten the lid. Cook this on low heat for 10 to 15 minutes and let it stand for another 30 minutes before opening.
- Chicken Biriyani is ready. Serve it with Chicken pieces, potatoes and boiled egg.
I am madly in love with this. The Kolkata biryani has a separate traditional biryani recipe. Also fry the potatoes and keep them aside. Kolkata style Chicken Biryani is much lighter on spices and serving potato with meat is the speciality of Kolkata Biryani. Calcutta or Kolkata style Chicken Biryani is a mixed rice dish inspired by Awadhi cuisine.
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