Madras Mutton Biryani

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Biryani has always been a festive dish at home.  Any kinda occasion, biryani holds the king position.

The madras style of making it involves cooking the mutton and rice together incontrary to the popular way of doing it in layers.  This is the biryani I cooked yesterday and it came out really well.

Ingredients-1
1 kg Mutton
1 tsp Turmeric powder
1 kg Basmati rice
3 nos Onions sliced lengthwise
3 nos Tomato chopped finely
22 nos Green chillies slit lengthwise
1 tbsp Red chilli powder
1 tbsp Coriander /dhania powder
2 cup Sour curd
1 bunch Fresh pudina (only the leaves)
1 no Lemon (extract juice)
pinch Shah jeera (optional)
4 tbsp Ghee
Salt to taste
Oil ( as per need)
Ingredients-2
Make a wet paste of 3 green chillies, 4 tbsp ginger garlic paste, 1 tsp khasa khasa soaked in water, handful of fresh coriander, and one big onion
Ingredients-3
Make a dry powder of 1 star anise, 5cloves, 1 one inch sticks of cinnamon and 4 cardomoms
For temper take 2 bay leaves, 10 cloves, 3 one ich sticks of cinnamon and 3 cardomoms

Instructions

Wash the mutton well and pressure cook till 3/4 done with turmeric and little salt. Drain the water into a cup from the mutton and keep it aside.

In the meantime soak the rice for 5 mins and drain the water. Fry the rice in 2tbsp of ghee in a kadai.

Heat oil in a heavy bottom vessel. Put in the items to temper. Add in the onions and fry till nice golden brown. Mix in the wet paste and fry till the oil seperates and then add the slit green chillies and tomato. Continue frying till the tomatoes are soft and a nice aroma envelopes. Finally add the mutton followed by the dry powder, chilli powder, coriander powder, salt and fry for few minutes.

Add in the Curds, lemon juice and six cups of water(as there is already water left from the curds and the masala). Close the lid and bring it to a boil on high flame. Once the water is boiling, reduce the flame to low and put in the rice evenly alternating with the pudina leaves. Close the lid and let the rice cook.

Open the lid after 5 mins dribble 2 tbsp of ghee over the top and close the lid again. After 1/2 hour take it out from the flame. Now your delicious tasty Madras Mutton Biryani is ready to eat.

Serve with onion raita

madras mutton biryani

Comments

2 responses to “Madras Mutton Biryani”

  1. Sadhanaraveen Avatar
    Sadhanaraveen

    Presentation and explanation is too good..Keep goin!!!

    Sadhana Raveen

  2. seema Avatar
    seema

    Cornstarch, ur recipes r as interesting as ur pics. nice creativity u have. my husb is a lover of mutton biriyani…shall try this soon and let u know the feedback.

    * Tks for reducing the size of ur pics. now they look so very attractive than any other.