Saturday, October 14, 2006

Mutton Biryani.





Ingredients:

Basmati rice - 6 cups
Mutton - 3 pounds
Curd - 4 tbps
Chilli powder - 1 tps
Ginger & garlic paste - 5 tps
Onion - 2
Oil - 1 cup
Mutton biryani mix - 1 packet
Green chillies - 15
Salt to taste
Tomato - 1 (medium size)
Saffron a pinch
Ghee - 3 tbps
Lemon juice - 1
Milk - 1tbps
Bay leaf - 3
Cilantro chopped finely

Preparation:

Cut the onions into thin slices and fry them to little brown colour, leave the onion in the same oil. Cut the tomato and chillies into small pieces. Soak the saffron in the milk.

Wash the mutton and mix the mutton with biryani mix, ginger & garlic paste, curd, chilli powder. Take a pressure cooker add 1 tbps of oil bay leaf, green chillies, tomatoes and fry them for 2 min. Then add the mutton, dont add salt to it, close it with the lid and cook it till the meat is done and until no water is left.

Cook the rice until half done, add salt to the rice. Once the rice is done, put the soaked saffron over the rice, take a thick bottom dish, put the rice, mutton, lemon juice, cilantro, fried onion in layers, sprinkle little water in between each layer, cover it with a aluminum foil, put it on the stove over a low flame for 15 min, off the stove and leave it for another 10 min.
Remove the foil, mix it well.

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