Dumpokht

Dum Pukht means slow cooking in a sealed container. … It is almost always used to cook meat dishes and almost no water is added, so that the meat cooks in its own juices! Dum Pukht Biryani can be made with lamb, goat meat or chicken

Dum cooking is a way of slow cooking. It is a technique that is more than 400 years old! … Dum signifies steam and many a time the vessel containing the food being slow cooked in its own juices is sealed with atta. When the steam is not allowed to escape it becomes dumpokht (here pukht means choking