Recipe: Perfect Kolkata style Chicken Briyani

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Kolkata style Chicken Briyani. Calcutta/Kolkata Chicken Biryani is a mixed rice dish inspired by Awadhi cuisine. Biryani usually cooked with rice, Yogurt, meat and spices. However Diwali is a special occasion, so a little bit more time in kitchen will not hurt anybody.

The Kolkata biryani has a separate traditional biryani recipe.

Also fry the potatoes and keep them aside.

Kolkata Chicken Biryani or Bengali style Chicken Dum Biryani is an epitome of indulgence in delicate delicious food.

You can cook Kolkata style Chicken Briyani using 23 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Kolkata style Chicken Briyani

  1. Prepare 1 kg of chicken.

  2. You need 4 of potatoes.

  3. It’s 500 gm of Basmati rice.

  4. It’s 3 of medium size slice onions.

  5. Prepare as needed of oil for frying the birista and cooking.

  6. It’s 1 cup of curd.

  7. Prepare 2 tsp of ginger and garlic paste.

  8. It’s 1/2 cup of birista (fried onion).

  9. Prepare 1 tsp of Kewra water.

  10. Prepare 1 tsp of rose water.

  11. You need 1 tsp of meetha attar.

  12. You need 1 tsp of garam masala.

  13. You need 1/2 tsp of red chilli powder.

  14. Prepare 1 tsp of Black pepper powder.

  15. Prepare 2 tsp of briyani masala powder.

  16. You need to taste of salt.

  17. It’s 1 tsp of fennel seeds.

  18. It’s 5 piece of alubukhara (dried plums).

  19. Prepare 1/2 cup of grated khoya.

  20. It’s 1 1/4 cuo of milk.

  21. You need pinch of saffron strands.

  22. You need 2 tsp of melted butter.

  23. It’s 4 tsp of melted ghee.

Typical Kolkata biryani which is adopted from Awadhi style Biryani.

Kolkata style mutton biryani is already on blog, today I'm going to share the 'Chicken biryani' recipe with you.

How to make Kolkata Style Chicken Biryani Recipe.

Put chicken pieces in a bowl.

Kolkata style Chicken Briyani instructions

  1. First make birista for deep fry the slices onions till slightly golden in color then fry the potatoes once done keep it aside..

  2. Then marinate the chicken for this in a large mixing bowl mix together curd,ginger garlic paste,red chili powder, birista,kewra water,salt,biryani masala powder,pepper powder then add chicken pieces keep it aside for few hours,soak the rice for 30 minutes..

  3. Then heat a kadhai add some oil then add the marinated chicken pieces add the potatoes cook it on a low medium flame till it done.

  4. Now separate the chicken pieces and little gravy contain in it, set the kadhai grease it with some ghee then boil the rice with whole garam masala parboiled the rice, now assemble everything together..

  5. Some chicken pieces,potatoes,dried plum sprinkle with some biryani masala powder,grated khoya put some rice then soaked saffron milk mixture then again layered with rice sprinkle with biryani masala powder,grated khoya milk essence mixture melted butter ghee mixture and birista..

  6. Cover it with aluminum foil then put the lid on it cook it on very low flame for 35 minutes then turn off the heat keep it aside for 30 minutes then serve hot..

Authentic Indian Bengali Kolkata or Calcutta style Mughlai chicken dum biryani recipe, learn how to make or cook delicious, aromatic chicken dum biryani step by step.

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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.