Kolkata Style Chicken Biriyani
Kolkata Style Chicken Biriyani

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, kolkata style chicken biriyani. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Kolkata Style Chicken Biriyani is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Kolkata Style Chicken Biriyani is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Try this Kolkata restaurant style homemade chicken biryani and don't forget to let me know your valuable feedback about this recipe in the comment section below. Kolkata special chicken biryani - a Bengali style biryani recipe. Calcutta or Kolkata style Chicken Biryani is a mixed rice dish inspired by Awadhi cuisine.

To get started 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 that.

The ingredients needed to make Kolkata Style Chicken Biriyani:
  1. Get For Biriyani Masala:
  2. Make ready 2 tbsp Shahi Jeera
  3. Make ready 2 tbsp Coriander Seeds
  4. Make ready 7/8 Black Peppercorns
  5. Get 8/9 White Peppercorns
  6. Make ready 2/3 Black Cardamom
  7. Make ready 7/8 Green Cardamom
  8. Prepare 1 whole nutmeg (jaifal)
  9. Take 2/3 whole maces (javetri flower)
  10. Make ready 6/7 Cloves, 1/2 Cinnamon Sticks,
  11. Take 2 Star Anise, 2 tbsp Fennel Seeds, half tbsp Kabab Chini
  12. Take For Chicken Marination:
  13. Prepare 500 gms Chicken cut into medium pieces
  14. Prepare 2/3 Big Onions very thin sliced (for beresta)
  15. Take 2 tbsp Ginger-Garlic-green chilli paste
  16. Take 500 gms hung curd
  17. Take 1/2tbsp Red Chilli powder
  18. Prepare to taste Salt, Sugar
  19. Take as needed Vegetable Oil, Ghee
  20. Make ready For Biriyani Rice:
  21. Take 500 gms Basmati Rice
  22. Get 2 tbsp each Rose Water, Kewra water
  23. Make ready 3/4 Potato cut into medium pieces
  24. Get 4/5 Green cardamom, 2/3 Bay leaves, 4/5 Clove, 1 Cinnamon stick
  25. Take as needed Saffron Milk (Saffron soaked in warm milk for 30 minutes)
  26. Get 100 gms Khova
  27. Make ready as needed Boiled Eggs

People in Bengal swear by it. More than the rice and chicken, they swear by the potato. The potato is what differentiates a Kolkata style chicken biryani from the other biryani variants. Now in a kadhai, add refined oil.

Steps to make Kolkata Style Chicken Biriyani:
  1. 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.
  2. Marinate the chicken pieces with curd, red chilli powder, ginger-garlic-green chilli paste, and salt for 45 minutes to 1 hour
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Chicken Biriyani is ready. Serve it with Chicken pieces, potatoes and boiled egg.

Kolkata biryani is much lighter in spices and the rice is being flavored with Kewra, rose water and Mitha Attar. Which makes the biryani even more flavorful than any other states' biryani. Kolkata style mutton biryani is already on blog, today I'm going to share the 'Chicken biryani' recipe with you. The Kolkata Style Chicken Biryani very similar to the Awadhi Style with a small twist - It contains large pieces of Potato - this is unique and not seen in any other style of Biryani. There is a small story behind it.

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