Thalassery Chicken Dum Biriyani/Malabar Chicken Biriyani

Marinate Chicken with turmeric powder,salt,lemon juice and chilli powder for minimum 20 minutes

Roast and powder biriyani masala, keep aside

Finely slice onion and Deep fry them and keep them in the strainer

Wash and soak rice for 20 minutes and then drian and keep aside

Heat oil in a kadai

Add sliced onion along with salt and saute till transparent

Then add crushed ginger-garlic-chilli and saute till light brown colour

Then add mint-coriander leaves and turmeric

Saute for few seconds,Now add tomato pieces stir and close ,cook well

When done open the cooker and marinated chicken pieces,mix well

Close and cook for till done in medium flame

When chicken is 3/4th done add fried onion and again cook

Then add 1tsp of biriyani masala to the chicken and mix

Then add lemon juice

Check the salt and adjust if needed,Then keep aside

Boil water and add spices along with salt

Then add ghee and mix

When started boiling ,add rice and allow to boil

Then close the kadai and lower the flame,stir in between

When the water has completely absorbed off the stove keep the rice undisturbed for 20 minutes

After 20 minutes the rice will be perfect

Now we need to dum the biriyani

In a big nonstick kadai add some ghee then add the chicken masala in the bottom

On top of that sprinkle cashew-kissmiss,leaves ,fried onion and biriyani masala

Then layer the rice

In each layer sprinkle everything shown in the video

Finally close the kadai with a foilpaper

then close with the lid Then heat a tawa and place this kadai on the tawa and dum

So after 30 -35 minutes tasty yummy Thalasseri Dum chicken biriyani is ready to serve