Mutton Biryani

Mutton Biryani

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kg Mutton (cleaned and cut into pieces)
• 2 cups Basmati Rice
• Few flakes garlic
• 3 tsp Coriander Powder
• Dried coconut
• 1 inch stick Cinnamon
• 3 Green Chillies
• 1 tsp Chilli Powder
• 1 cup Onion (chopped)
• 1 inch piece Ginger
• 1 tsp Poppy Seeds
• 3 Peppercorns Cloves
• 3 Cardamoms Cloves
• 1 cup Curd
• 1/2 cup Onion
• 2 Bay leaf
• 8 tbsp Fat
• Salt to taste

How to make Mutton Biryani:

• Marinate the meat in curd taken in a bowl.

• Roast cardamom, cinnamon, peppercorns cloves. Make a fine powder.

• Grind ginger, red chillies, green chillies, half the onions, garlic and dried kernel of the coconut.

• Now heat fat in a pan. Add chopped onions and ground spices.

• Fry until onions turn golden brown.

• Now add meat and fry well. Add poppy seed powder.

• Add salt and remaining curd. Cook till meat becomes tender.

• Add powdered spices to it and remove from the flame.

• Fry remaining onions in fat in a separate pan.

• Add cloves and bay leaf.

• Fry for few minutes and add rice.

• Fry for another few minutes.

• Put salt to taste and make the quantity of water double.

• Remove from the flame when rice gets cooked and no moisture is left.

• Arrange a part of cooked rice in a pan and sprinkle saffron water over it.

• Place the meat over it and cover with rice layer once again.

• Garnish with fried onions and nuts.

• Mutton Biryani is ready.