Recipe Of Lucknowi Biryani

  

     Recipe Of Lucknowi Biryani

             

              

Lakhnowi biryani is something different in taste as well as flavour from other biryani. It does not use much spice but its aroma is very high. 

Serve - 7

Preparation Time - 35 mints 

Cooking Time 1 hour

Ingredients :-----

For Cooking Chicken :---

                                        

  1- Chicken large pieces - 750 gm

  2-  onion - 2 cup sliced

3- salt - to taste 

4- ginger paste - 2 tbsp

5- garlic paste - 2 tbsp

6- cardamom - 5 nos 

7- cloves - 5 nos 

8- cinnamon stick - 1

9- nutmeg ( Jaifal ) - 1

10- red chilli powder - 2 tsp

11- curd - 1 cup 

12- kewra water - 2 tbsp

13- rose water - 1 tbsp

14- milk - 1 cup

15- cardamom powder - 1 pinch 

16- mace ( Javitri Powder) - 1 pinch 

For Rice -----

          

    

1- basmati rice - 450 gm

2- green chilli - 1 ( split) 

3- salt - 4 tbsp

4- oil - 1 tsp

5- water - 4 ltr 

6- cloves - 4

7- lemon juice - 1 tbsp

For Saffron Milk :-----

1- saffron - 1 pinch 

2- milk - 2 tbsp ( hot) 

Other Ingredients :-----

1- Atta dough 

2- rose water 

3- mitha atar 

Method :------

How to make Lucknowi Biryani:-

Making Saffron Milk :---

             

soak 1 pinch of saffron in hot milk for half an hour. 

Cooking Chicken :-----

Step 1 --- 

Take a pan put it on medium flame and add oil. When the oil is hot enough add onion sliced and stir it till the colour turns golden brown. Now add large pieces of chicken ( if you want you can use boneless chicken here) and stir it well then add salt, ginger paste, garlic paste and cook for 6 to 7 mints. Now you have to give cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and cracked nutmeg ( nutmeg is most important ingredient of Lakhnowi Biryani. It smells very strong so you have to take it out after sometime.) Then add salt, red chilli powder and cook for 2 mints. Now add curd and cook it for 10 mints. It needs to be half cooked then add kewra water and turn off the gas. 

Step - 2 ----

Now You have to take it down from the gas and add milk in it. Because of adding milk chicken will be soft and gravy (Curry) will be adequate. Now take the chicken pieces out from the curry and strain the curry, keep the both( chicken pieces and curry)  aside. This is the typical style of Lakhnowi Biryani.

Step - 3 -----

Now separate the oil from the gravy or curry. It is called 'Rogan'.

                                                                       I will use it later. Now in this gravy/curry add one pinch cardamom powder, mace (javitri), saffron milk, rose water kewra water mitha atar and mix it well. It is a flavourfull and smoth curry.Again add separated chickens in it and boil for 2 mints. 

Rice Cooking :-----

Soak basmati rice for 40 mints. 

In a pan on medium flame add 4 ltr water and when the water starts boiling add cardamom, cloves, lemon juice, one green chilli salt 4 tbsp, oil 1 tsp and stir it. Now add soaked rice. After 10 mints strain the spices like cardamom, cloves, green chilli. When the rice is 70 % done strain the excess water and keep it aside. 

Layering :-----

Take a biryani vessel and put on medium heat add oil evenly then spread half amount of rice as a first layer. Now add the cooked chicken with curry ( 1/2 quantity) and then spread rice on it evenly as a second layer. Now add rest quantity  chicken with curry on it as a another layer. At last spread the rest amount of rice evenly then sprinkle Rogan, kewra water, rose water saffron milk then seal the vessel with atta dough and cover the lid tightly. 

Cook On Dum:------

Take a old tawa and heat on high flame, place the biryani vessel on it then reduce the flame and cook it on dum for 20 mints. Now off the gas and rest for 30 mints then open the biryani vessel and serve biryani hot with raita and salad. 

                         

                 

            

      Recipe Of Lucknowi Biryani