Chicken Dum Pulao

Today I will share a very easy yet tasty meal recipe. That is Chicken Dum Pulao.

 The ingredients are always available in the kitchen and the cooking process is also very simple. I have tried to capture the image of every step so that you do not get confused with the recipe. Here I present the recipe in pictorial format :

Ingredients: 500 gm basmati rice, 12-15 medium peices of chicken, 3 big potatoes cut into 6 pieces, bay leaf, whole garam masala, big elaichi, whole coriander and cumin, saunf, dried red chilli, green chilli, refined oil, lemon, resins, onion, ginger garlic paste, salt, turmeric, curd.

Washed potatoes

Garlic Paste

Ginger paste

Whole cumin

Salt

Turmeric

Washed and soaked Basmati rice

The raw ingredients

The whole spices

 

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Step 1# Take a pan, heat oil and add the whole spices in it. Fry till they start cracking.

First add the cumin and saute for few minutes until it becomes brown. Then add the other whole spices excluding saunf and coriander. 

Step 2# Now add the chopped onions. Fry them till they become pink and tender. This is very important because this will effect the colour of the pulao. 

Step 3# Now as the onion has become pink to brownish and soft as well, add the ginger and garlic paste now. Keep on frying it in a high flame so that all the things mix up well together and the raw smell vanishes.

Step 4# After all the masala has been mixed well and the raw smell has vanished, add the whole coriander and saunf and mix well.

Step 5# Now when you have added all the spices and they all have turned into a nice brown colour, it is the time that you add the curd. Add the curd along with some salt and turmeric powder. Mix them well and add the washed potatoes and chicken pieces in it. Add the resins. Cook them in a high flame and keep on cooking until the oil starts oozing out. The chicken pieces and potatoes will get mixed with the spices and will absorb the aroma into it. All the ingredients will turn into a nice brown colour all over.

Step 6# Now that oil has started oozing out add the soaked rice carefully so that the grains won't break. Mix them slowly and carefully. Do not mix them a lot otherwise they will break. After cooking like this for 1 to 2 minutes, add water EXACTLY THE DOUBLE OF RICE QUANTITY, here 4 cups as I took 2 cups of rice. Add the lemon pieces too. 

Cook it in a medium flame for 5 minutes keeping the lid open. 

Step 7# Now when you see that the rice along with chicken and potatoes have absorbed the rice to a medium level, sprinkel a table spoon of ghee and cover the pan immediately. In the meanwhile, I had preheated my Iron tawa (you can use clay tawa too). Shift the whole pan on the tawa and cook for 5 to 10 minutes in a medium flame covering the lid.

Step 8# Open the lid and see if there is any remaining water in it, if yes cook it in a high flame opening the lid for few more minutes as per needed. Then turn the heat off and keep the whole thing open for few minutes so the moisture gets absorbed by the air.

Your Chicken Dum Pulao is ready to be served hot with anything of your choice such as Kadhai chicken, doi mutton etc.

Chicken Dum Pulao