Chicken Biryani Recipe | लखनवी चिकन दम बिरयानी मुस्लिम स्टाइल | Kunal Kapur Rice Recipes

Lucknowi Or Awadhi style of #biryani is quite different from any other style of biryani. This style of biryani is possibly closet to what a #pulao is. The key to making a good Lucknow biryani is to strain all the spies, onion and jhol and then wash the meat in milk. Also the addition of kewra water enhances the floral notes in the #lucknowibiryani.

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Ingredients

For chicken

Chicken – 1kg,

Oil – ⅔ cup/150 ml

Pyaz sliced – 2 cups/250 gms

Salt – to taste

Ginger paste – 1 tbsp

Garlic paste (watery) – 2 tbsp,

Cardamom – 4-5no

Cloves – 4-5no

Cinnamon Stick – 1 no

Nutmeg (jaiphal) – ½ no

Chilli powder – 2-3 tsp

Curd – ½ cup /120 gms

Kewra water – 2 tbsp

Milk – ¾ cup/180ml

Mace powder (javitri) – a generous pinch

Cardamom powder – a generous pinch

Saffron dissolved – a generous pinch

Kewra water – 1 tbsp

For rice

Green chilli – 1-2nos

Water – 3 ltr

Salt – 3 tbsp

Cardamom – 3-4nos

Cloves – 3-4 nos

Oil – a dash

Basmati Rice – 500gms

Saffron dissolved – 3 tbsp

Dough for sealing