Saturday, November 6, 2010

Sindhi Mutton Biryani







Ingredients:

Mutton – 1 to 1 1/2 kg
Onion – 4 thinly sliced
Tomatoes - 4 cut in cubes
Salt – to taste
Rice – 1 kg
Yogurt – 1 bowl
dried lemons - 3
Ginger garlic paste – 2,2 tbs
Dry coriander – 1 tbsp roasted and grounded
Red chilli powder – 2 tbs
Coriander powder – 2 tbs
Turmeric powder -- 1 tsp
whole Garam masala – 3 bay leaves, 4 black cardamom, 4 green cardamom, some cloves, 1 cinnamon stick, 7 whole black pepper
Nutmeg and mace – 1 and 1/2 tsp
Potato – 3 (add orange food colour in water and half boiled )
Kewra essence – few drops
Orange food colour – few drops
Prunes – 6 soaked in water
Cumin seeds – 2 tbs
Oil – 1 cup or as required
Sliced tomato, chopped mint, chopped coriander, chopped green chillies and sliced lemon or layers– as required

Method:
  1. Put ghee in a pan and heat it.
  2. Add onions and fry till they turn brown.
  3. Add tomatoes and fry untill soft.
  4. Then add ginger garlic paste, red chilli powder and all other spices including dreid lemon and mix well
  5. Now cover and cook till meat gets tender.
  6. Boil potato in separate pan.
  7. When meat is done then add fried cumin and coriander seeds and fry till water dries
  8. Now spread prunes, then green chopped masala n fry meat for 2 more  minutes on low heat and put off the heat
  9. Boil the rice with salt, black cumin seeds, black n green cardamom, cinnamon sticks, cloves n bay leaves
  10. Now in a big wok spread rice with some green masala (chopped mint, green coriender leaves, tomato and lemon slices)
  11. Now add some meat qorma, again layer with rice than qorma n then rice and chopped green masala on top
  12. Spread half boil potato.
  13. Mix kewra with food colour and water n spread on top
  14. Fry some onion n spread on top 
  15. Then put on dum for 15 minutes and serve with salad and raita.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

thanks for such a nice and easy recipe..
m lil confused..is it chkn biryani or mutton?

as u wrote mutton in the ingredients but in the method section,u wrote 'add chicken'(point no.4)
and can we cook mutton without giving pressure??it will take lot of time to gt tender,i guess...


thanks...

Anonymous said...

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