Hyderabadi Dum Biryaniحیدرآبادی بریانی
⏱ Prep 40m🍳 Cook 45m🍽 Serves 6🌿 Non-veg
Video: Vismai Food (YouTube)
Hyderabadi dum biryani is the princely dish of the Nizams — marinated meat and half-cooked basmati layered raw and sealed to cook on slow dum, so the rice steams in the meat’s spiced juices, saffron and fried onions. Every grain separate, every layer perfumed.
📍 Make it in Plano
This recipe is the same everywhere — but where you buy the ingredients and eat the dish is local to you.
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Ingredients
- ▪Basmati rice3 cups
- ▪Goat/mutton or chicken750 g
- ▪Yogurt1 cup
- ▪Fried onions (birista)1.5 cups
- ▪Ginger-garlic paste2 tbsp
- ▪Green chillies5
- ▪Mint and coriander leaves1 cup each
- ▪Red chilli powder1.5 tbsp
- ▪Biryani whole spices (bay, cinnamon, clove, cardamom, shahi jeera)1 set
- ▪Saffron soaked in warm milka pinch
- ▪Ghee4 tbsp
- ▪Lemon juice, saltto taste
🌍 Cooking abroad? Substitutions
- Chicken needs only ~20 min dum; mutton benefits from overnight marination and longer dum.
- Buy ready fried onions (birista) at any Indian store to save time — they are central to the flavour.
- Aged basmati that cooks fluffy and separate is worth seeking out; rinse and soak well.
Method
- 1Marinate the meat with yogurt, ginger-garlic paste, red chilli, half the fried onions, half the mint/coriander, slit chillies, a little garam masala, lemon and salt — at least 1 hour (overnight for mutton).
- 2Soak the rice 30 minutes. Boil plenty of salted water with the whole spices, add the rice and cook to just 70% done; drain.
- 3In a heavy pot, spread the marinated meat, layer the drained rice over it, and scatter the rest of the fried onions, mint, coriander, saffron milk and ghee on top.
- 4Seal the pot with a tight lid (or dough). Cook on high 3–4 minutes, then on the lowest heat (dum) for 25–30 minutes (place a tawa under the pot). Do not open early.
- 5Rest 10 minutes, then gently fold from the sides to lift the layers. Serve with mirchi ka salan and raita.
A Desi.Net original recipe · part of our Indian Cuisine library. Confirm details and adjust to taste.