While this mutton and rice dish consumes time and effort, the pay-off is a delicious main dish featuring a variety of spices. Try this Mutton Biryani Recipe and don't forget to share your experience with us!!
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour30 minutesminutes
Total Time 2 hourshours
Servings 4
Author Bushrah | Recipestable
Ingredients
1/2kgMutton
2Cupsbasmati rice
Few flakes garlic
3tspCoriander powder
Dried coconut
1Inchstick cinnamon
3Green chillies
1tspChilli powder
1Cuponion
1Inchpiece ginger
1tspPoppy seeds
3Clovespeppercorns and cardamoms
1Cupcurd
1/2Cuponion
2Bay leaf
8tbspFat
Salt to taste
Instructions
Directions
Clean the meat and cut into pieces.
Soak the meat in curd.
Roast cardamom, cinnamon, peppercorns and powder cloves. Make powder.
Grind ginger, red chillies, green chillies, half the onions, garlic and copra.
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.
Chop remaining onions. Fry them 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 to serve.