Our home traditional Donne biryani. Mutton cooked in woody Indian spices along with fluffy and flavorful jeera samba rice/basmati rice.
Preparation and cooking time:1 and 1/2 hr
Serving: 4
Ingredients:
- 1/2 kg Jeera samba/Basmati rice
- 1/2 kg mutton
- 1 small onion(cut into vertical pieces)
- 1 cup mint leaves
- 1 cup chopped coriander leaves
- 1/2 lime/ lemon juice (optional)
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Ginger (ginger shud be half the qty of garlic)
- 2 small garlic
- 8 to 12 spicy green chilli
Biryani masala:
- 1 small piece Cinnamon
- 10 Cloves
- 5 Cardamom
- 4 Star seed
- 1/2 tsp Dagad phool
- 1/2 tsp Fennel seed
- 5 Bay leaves
- 5 Marathi moggu(dried kapok buds)
- 1/2 tsp Kasturi methi
- Salt as needed
Preparation and cooking method:
Soak the rice in water for 10 to 15mins
Wash mutton in clean water.
Grind ginger, garlic, green chilli, 4 to 5 cloves, small piece cinnamon into a paste.
Heat oil in a cooker.
Add Biryani masala (specified in ingredients list) along onions, mint leaves, saute for awhile.
Then add masala paste, and saute 5 to 10 mins.
Add mutton, turmeric powder and salt, mix well and fry for another 10 minutes or untill water released from mutton evaporates completely.
Now add lime/ lemon juice(optional) and Add 2 and 1/2 glasses of water and Pressure cook mutton upto 1 or 2 whistles.
Turn off heat and wait untill cooker cool down.
Later add soaked jeera samba/basmati rice and coriander leaves.
Pressure cook upto 1 whistles and turn off heat.
Once pressure is off then remove lid, mix gently. Garnish with coriander leaves.
Serve hot biryani with onion cucumber raita 🙂
Enjoy😊
Happy cooking!
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