“A rice dish made with mutton, rice, herbs and aromatic spices. A hearty mutton biryani that will amaze your guests! Biryani is a dish that nobody can ever resist. Be it a dinner party or any celebratory occasion, biryani seems to be an ideal main dish to serve along with a spicy salan or refreshing raita.”
Ingredients
For Mutton:
- 1 kg mutton cleaned and washed well
- salt as per taste
- 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- 1 tbsp red chilli powder
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp garam masala powder
- 1 tsp black pepper powder
- 1 cup beaten yogurt
- 1 cup deep fried onions finely crushed
- 1 bunch freshly chopped coriander leaves
- 2 tbsp oil
- 3 small cinnamon sticks
- 4 cloves
- 3 green cardamoms
- 2 brown cardamoms
- 1 tsp caraway seeds
- 5 green chillies vertically slit
For Cooking Rice:
- water for boiling
- salt to taste
- 1 kg basmati rice
- 3 small cinnamon sticks
- 3 cloves
- 2 green cardamoms
- 2 brown cardamoms
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tbsp lemon extracted juice
For Layering or Seasoning:
- 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
- 2 tbsp chopped mint leaves
- 4 tbsp deep fried onions
- 2 tbsp ghee
- 1/4 cup saffron flavored milk 2 saffron strands dipped in milk
Instructions
For Cooking Mutton:
- Take a large bowl or vessel, into it add mutton pieces, add salt, add ginger garlic paste.
- Add spices such as red chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala powder, black pepper corn powder and mix well.
- Add beaten yogurt, mix well and put it aside.
- Take a pressure cooker, add oil into the cooker and heat it.
- Add cinnamon sticks, add cloves, cardamoms, caraway seeds and saute well.
- Add vertically slit green chillies and saute for few seconds.
- Add the mixed mutton mixture into it.
- Add chopped coriander leaves into it.
- Add deep fried onions into it.
- Mix the whole mixture well, cook for few minutes and pressure cook the mutton mixture by adding a cup of water.
- Reduce the steam, and place the cooked mutton aside.
For Cooking Rice:
- When the mutton is getting tenderized, soak basmati rice in water for 35-40 minutes.
- Meanwhile, take a cooking vessel, add water generously into it.
- Add salt according to taste.
- Add spices such as cinnamon sticks, cardamoms, cloves, bay leaves.
- Add lemon juice extract into it.
- Bring the water to a boil.
- Add the soaked rice into it.
- Cook the rice until it is 80% done.
- Strain the rice completely.
For Layering Of Biryani:
- Take empty cooking vessel, add ghee at the base and coat it well.
- Add a portion of the mutton mixture and spread it evenly.
- Over the mutton add a layer a rice.
- Season the layer with deep fried onions, coriander leaves, mint leaves, saffron flavored milk.
- Again add the remaining cooked mutton mixture over the seasoning.
- Add a layer of rice.
- Season it again with deep fried onions, chopped coriander and mint leaves, lemon juice, saffron flavored milk.
- Also add some ghee and some oil over the top if required and for fragrance.
- Cover the lid of the vessel.
- Switch on the stove.
- Cook the biryani for 15 minutes low flame.
- Biryani is done and ready to be served.
