Ingredients
- 1 kg mutton , pieces
- Basmati rice - 3 cups
- Onions - 4 (chopped)
- Tomatoes - 3 (chopped)
- Ginger garlic paste - ½ tbsp
- Fresh yogurt - ½ cup
- Cumin powder - 1 tbsp
- Red chili powder - 1 tbsp
- Mutton masala powder - 2 tbsp
- Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
- Ghee - 3 tbsp
- Cinnamon - 1 stick
- Cloves - 5
- Bay leaves - 3
- Green chilies - 3
- Salt
- Oil - ¼ cup
- Coriander leaves
Preparation
- Wash and drain the Basmathi rice for one hour before cooking.
- Pour oil/ghee in a skillet.
- Fry the onions until pink in color and crisp and keep aside..Add cinnamon, cloves, peppercorns, bay leaves.
- Add ginger-garlic pastes and fry for 3 minutes.
- Add in the washed mutton pieces.
- Saute until the mutton gives out its own juices.
- Add the green chillies, turmeric, chilli powder, cumin powder, mutton masala powder and yogurt and saute.
- Simmer until the mutton is cooked.Add salt.Continue to cook until the oil separates from the meat.
- Add finely chopped corriander leaves.
- In a separate pot,boil rice until the grains are half cooked.
- Strain the rice. Spread out the mutton mixture in a heavy bottom pan.
- Add the rice on top and sprinkle crisp fried onions on top.
- Cover the platter with a lid and cook for 20 more mins.
Mutton biriyani is done. Best served with raitha and chicken curry.
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