The ultimate of Nawabi cuisine.Cooked in the tandoori style- a
rich preparation of rice and mutton
Basmati Rice 500 gms.
Mutton cut into small
pieces 1kg.
Garam Masala 2 tsp.
Red chilies 6 nos.
Cashewnuts A handful
Onions (sliced fine and
fried till crisp) 5 nos.
Cloves 2 nos.
Dalchini 2 pieces
Elaichi 3 nos.
Green chilies 6 nos.
Kothmir, chopped 1
small bunch
Pudina chopped 1 small
bunch
Ginger Garlic paste 3
tsp.
Saffron (dissolved in ¾
cup milk) 2 pinches
Curd beaten 1 cup
Lime juice 2 nos.
Eggs boiled 4 nos.
Ghee /Oil 5 tbsp.
Salt to taste
1. Grind the red chilies and cashewnuts to a fine paste.
2. To the mutton apply the ginger - garlic paste and beaten
curd. Set aside.
3. Heat 4 tablespoons ghee and fry the red chili masala.
4. Add the marinated mutton, ¼ of the fried onion, one
teaspoon garam masala and salt to taste.
5. Keep frying till ghee separates. Add 1½ cups warm water.
Pressure cook till tender.
6. Heat dekchi, add 1 tbsp ghee and fry the sabut masala.
7. Add the rice and fry a little. Add the green chilies and salt
to taste.
8.Add enough warm water. Cook till rice is done, remove
and spread on a thali, discarding the whole masala.
9. Mix together the chopped kothmir, pudina, garam masala
and fried onion.
Set aside.
10.Take a heavy bottlomed dekchi and line it with ghee.
11.Spread a layer of rice and cover it with half of the mutton.
Sprinkle half of the pudina / kothmir mixture and juice of 1
lime.
12.Cover with rice, followed by a mutton layer. Finish with a
rice layer.
13.Sprinkle the rice with saffron milk and dot with ghee.
14.Cover tightly and place over a griddle for dum for 20
minutes. Serve hot, garnished with eggs cut into halves.
Normally in biryani the rice is half cooked and then it is cooked along with the mutton. Your reciepe says fully cooked rice. Will not overcook again when we cook with mutton
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Wow!!
How is this different from ordinary biryani?
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