How to Make Biryani at Home Step by Step | Hinz Cooking - Hinz Cooking - A Food Blog with Simple and Easy Dinner Recipes (2024)

Published: Oct 4, 2019 · Modified: Dec 15, 2020 by Hina

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How to Make Biryani at Home Step by Step | Hinz Cooking - In rice recipes, Biryani is one of the most popular recipe in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. If you are looking to make biryani in your lunch and dinner then watch step by step recipe direction to prepare biryani.

Here I am sharing an easy and simple method that will help you to make perfect biryani to share with your family and friends so if you are a beginner or bachelor looking to make tasty biryani then follow the recipe instruction and watch recipe video to note each and every step.

By following the same method, you can prepare biryani with chicken, mutton, potatoes, and vegetables. So if you are veg or nonveg, you can follow this simple recipe to make your biryani.

I am making this biryani with chicken as most of the people like chicken biryani but if you want to change the meat with mutton or veg then you can still follow the method.

Before I started making biryani, I had the feeling that its a lengthy method of cooking and lot of steps making me scared to make biryani so if you are a beginner and have the same thought then just skip. Biryani making is simple and easy! In fact, it's fun to make at home! I swear 🙂 I always enjoy it!

Easy Tips to Make Perfect Biryani

Before starting, I wanted to share 10 tips to make tasty biryani that you eat in restaurants. Some basic hacks will help you to create perfect taste:

1. Thinly slice the onion. Thick onion slices will not make tasty curry.
2. Always use fresh ginger garlic paste.
3. Be accurate in using spices
4. Fully cook your meat.
5. Use Basmati rice to make presentable and aromatic.
6. Be careful, when you soak biryani rice. (Don't soak more than 15 minutes if you are using basmati rice)
7. Fully drain the water from boil rice before making the biryani layer.
8. Rice should be boiled 90% before making the layer. (Never fully boil biryani rice before making layer)
9. When making the layer, make sure the curry should not be watery. If it is then cooked on high heat.
10. Make sure when biryani get ready, then don't run the spoon from the middle. Alway run spoon from sides to avoid rice break.

How To Make Biryani At Home - Recipe Video

Ingredients for Biryani:

A proper quantity of ingredients is always important to make perfect biryani. Here I broke down the steps to make it easy for you to note ingredients for all steps.

Biryani Curry Ingredients
Chicken – 800 Gms
Oil – 1 ½ Tbsp
Whole Garam Masala:
Cumin Seeds: 1 Tsp, Cloves: 10, Green Cardamom: 6
Cinnamon: 3 inches, Black Pepper: 15
Ginger Garlic Paste – 3 Tsp
Salt – 1 Tsp
Red Chilli Powder – 1.5 Tsp
Turmeric Powder – 1 Tsp
Coriander Powder – 1 Tsp
Garam Masala Powder – 1.5 Tsp
Yogurt – 2 Tbsp
Brown Onion – 1 Tbsp
Tomatoes – 1 Cup (Without skin)
Water – 200 ml (for curry)

Rice Boil Ingredients
Rice 2 Cups
Garam Masala for Rice:
Bay Leaves: 2, Cloves: 5, Cinnamon: 2″
Cumin Seeds: 1 Tsp, Aniseed: 1
Salt – 2 teaspoon (For Rice)

Layering Ingredients
Green Masala: Coriander and Green Chilies (for Rice layering)
Yellow food color: 2 Pinches
Fresh lemon: ½
Saffron milk – 3 Tsp
Biryani Essence – ⅓ Tsp

Step 1: Marination

• In a bowl, add ginger garlic paste, salt, red chili powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder.
• Also, add garam masala powder and yogurt.
• Add crushed brown onion and mix well to make a blended paste of all spices.
• Place chicken in a bowl and give it a good mix.
• Marinate Chicken for 60 minutes.

Step 2: Making Curry

• Now in a pan, add oil and heat it up.
• Add whole garam masala. As it starts popping up, place marinated chicken and cook on high heat.
• As the chicken starts releasing water then add peeled tomatoes and cook on high heat.
• When oil starts to float on the surface then add 200 ml water and cover for 25 minutes to tender chicken on low/medium heat.

Step 3: Boiling Rice

• Soak basmati rice for ½ an hour.
• In a spacious pan, add 500 ml water.
• And add whole garam masala and salt.
• Cover for 10 minutes to make the water steamy and aromatic with gram masala flavor.
• Add rice in hot water and cook until it cooks 80%.
• Drain water from rice and start the layering process.

Step 4: Layering

• Generously brush oil in biryani pan on the bottom to avoid rice sticking.
• Now place a layer of rice and pour the chicken curry over it.
• At the same time, sprinkle fresh coriander and green chilies at the top of the curry layer.
• Now add 2nd layer of rice.
• Make another layer of chicken curry.
• Now again sprinkle green coriander.
• Cover the chicken top with remaining rice.
• Sprinkle red food color and mix well with the help of a spoon.
• Now squeeze fresh lemon.
• Sprinkle crushed brown onion.
• Pour a few drops of biryani essence.
• To make it more tempting and aromatic, pour saffron milk (In lukewarm milk (3 tsp), add saffron petals and leave it for 1 hour).
• Cover the pan and keep on high heat for 2 minutes.
• After 2 minutes, turn the heat to low to make it steamy. (Dum)
• Keep on dum for 20 minutes.
• After 20 minutes the Hyderabadi biryani will be ready to serve.

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Try this recipe and let us know how it comes up at your end. If you have any question then you can definitely ask with us in the comment section. You can also make a variation in this recipe by adding potatoes as per your taste. If you are making with mutton then cooking time will increase.

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