Thalassery Chicken Dum Biriyani | Thalassery Kozhi Biriyani

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Updated with new pictures on May 22, 2020: Is it a coincidence that I chose this date to update the pictures on this post? SubhanAllah… Today Rasha is 13. A threshold age that is very dicey, and a nightmare to many parents… 🙂 I was just reading through the post and I had a little smile on my face. It’s been 7 years since this post, and even though I cooked and clicked this sometime back, I somehow sat to update this post only today. 🙂

If there is a biriyani that has been tried a lot from this blog, then it is this one. As I look at this post, I do feel it does need an update on the recipe as well. Agreed, that you make the neychor and then cook the biriyani, but even the neychor can be simplified it you wish to. This is one recipe that I have seen being prepared so many times in HD’s home, after actually posting on the blog. Sometimes you tend to be more careful about food, when you slowly get interested in it. 🙂 So with an update to the pictures, I am rewriting the recipe as well. It is always an evergreen recipe… Every Thalasserian or anyone in that vicinity makes it in their own way, and that too deliciously! This along with the Alsa has to be a part of their food table. Anytime I go blank, then either it is the Majboos or this biriyani, there is no other way out of it. 🙂 Hope you like this update to this post!

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And keeping the old picture, as I do, to know where I am heading to, as I move forward with this blog… 🙂

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Thalassery Chicken Dum Biriyani

Course Rice

Cuisine Malabar

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 1 hour hour

Total Time 1 hour hour 10 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Author Rafeeda

Ingredients

• FOR THE RICE:
• 2 cup jeerakashala rice
• 1 tbsp ghee
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 small pc cinnamon
• 4-6 black peppercorns
• 2 cloves
• 3 cardamoms
• 1 onion thinly sliced
• 1 tsp ginger paste
• Salt to taste
• 4 cups of water
• FOR THE CHICKEN:
• 750 gm chicken
• 1 tsp Kashmiri chilli powder
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
• Salt to taste
• FOR THE MASALA:
• 3 tbsp ghee/ oil
• 3 large onions sliced
• 4 green chillies slit
• 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
• 2 to matoes sliced
• 1/2 tsp garam masala
• Juice of 1/2 lemon
• FOR THE DUM:
• 2 tbsp ghee
• 1 onion sliced
• 6-8 cashews
• 5-6 raisins
• 3 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
• 3 tbsp chopped mint leaves
• 1 tbsp garam masala
• 1 tsp rose water optional

Instructions

• Marinate the chicken along with the masalas in a pressure cooker for an hour. Pressure cook the chicken for one whistle, switch off and allow the pressure to go on its own. (refer notes)
• In a large saucepan, heat ghee. Add the onion and slit green chillies along with salt and cook till the onion turns transparent.
• Add in the ginger and garlic paste and cook for 5 minutes.
• Add the chopped tomatoes and cook on low flame with a tight lid till the tomatoes get completely mashed and incorporated into the onion.
• Literally you would not be able to make out the onion or the tomato - it needs to get that mashed up. The more you cook the onion tomato masala, the tastier the biriyani turns out to be!
• Once the masala is well cooked, add the garam masala and lime juice. Give it a mix.
• Finally dump in the cooked chicken along with all its stock and cook till the masala becomes slightly dry. Ensure not to dry it up too much, or else your biriyani will not be moist.
• Cook the rice. Heat ghee, splutter the whole masalas. Fry the onion and ginger. Add the water, bring to a boil. Add the salt and the rice, and cook till done.
• Now let's prepare the dum ingredients. In a small kadai, heat the ghee.
• Add in the onion and fry till it browns. Sprinkle some salt to ensure that the onion stays crisp.
• Drain the browned onions onto a kitchen towel.
• Fry the cashews till brown and drain. Fry the raisins till puffed up and drain.
• For the dum, take a large saucepan which is dry. Spread a thin layer of Neychoru on the bottom.
• Now dump in the prepared chicken masala and spread to make it even.
• Sprinkle half of the garam masala, chopped coriander and mint leaves and fried dum ingredients.
• Add all the remaining rice on the top and spread at the top to level.
• Sprinkle the remaining dum ingredients on the top. Finally sprinkle the rose water.
• Wrap up the top with aluminium foil, close the lid tightly and leave on the lowest flame possible for 30 to 45 minutes till a lovely aroma spreads across your kitchen!!!

Notes

To serve, there are two ways:
1. You can mix up the whole biriyani till well mixed and serve into plates.
2. Separate the rice into a large saucepan and the masala and the last layer rice together into another saucepan. When it is served on the plate, you can take how much ever masala and rice you require, ie. the person being served can adjust their level of masala and rice.
The second method is more authentic as far as Thalassery Biriyani serving method is concerned. But then to ensure that I do not run short of the masala or rice, I always mix it up and serve!!! 😉

Yum, slurpy Thalassery Chicken Dum Biriyani is ready. Serve hot with raita, pappad and chammanthi, along with some pickle as well...
The original recipe says to cook the chicken in the pressure cooker and then fry the chicken till brown. So if you want to fry, you can do that, and add the fried oil into the masala - gives an awesome taste!