Hyderabadi Biryani

Description

Hyderabadi biryani is a traditional food. It is a traditional celebration meal made using goat meat or chicken with rice and is a staple of Hyderabai  cuisine. This variety is very popular in the city of Hyderabad, India. The blending of Mughlai and Telangana  style of  kitchens of the Nizam, ruler of the historic Hyderabad State, resulted in the creation of Hyderabadi Biryani. I tried out this biryani using vegetables and served withBoiled  egg fry and onion raita . there  are many style of preparing thishyderabad biryani and i followed this style of preparation. Try out and enjoy ..

Ingredients-1
1 cup Basmathi rice
1 cup Curd
1 cup Water
2 cup Mixed vegetables(potato,carrot, beans, tomato, etc)
3 T Oil
1 tsp Ginger and garlic paste
2 nos Onion medium ( chopped finely)
6 clove Garlic flakes
1 no Lemon
Corriander and mint leaves ( chopped hand full)
Ingredients-2
1½ T Cashewnuts
7 nos Shallots (sambar onions )
½ inch Ginger
8 nos Green chilli
1 inch Cinnamon
2 no Cloves / karambu
2 no Cardomen (green)
1 tsp Red chilli powder
½ bunch Corriander leaves

Instructions

Fry the ingrediant 2  in little oil and grind it with half a bunch of corriander. grind it in to a smooth paste.
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Wash and soak rice for 10 minutes. Drain water and fry for 2 minutes in half teaspoon of ghee.
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Heat oil in  a heavy bottem pan and fry garlic , onion till transparent. Mix ginger garlic paste and vegetables. Fry in medium flame  till the vegetables are cooked well. Add ground masala paste, fry till the raw smell goes.
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Beat curd and add it along with the one cup of water. When it starts boiling, add rice and salt. Cover with lid and reduce the flame completely.
cook till rice is half cooked and keep in dum for 10 min.
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Then add the lemon juice and cut mint leaves,corriander. Mix well and serve hot with fried boiled egg and kathirikkai chutney or with onion raita.
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Notes

I did not use pressure cooker for doing this biryani. If using pressure cooker keep for 2 whistle and switch off.
When using chicken or mutton instead of vegetables, fry them well with masala till the oil leaves the mass and add the water and curd, then add rice.
Actually in this recipe i added red chilli powder just for the colour.
In the traditional recipe there was no red chilli powder and the biriyani will be in slight greenish colour. We can try it out in both the ways there was no difference in taste. For colour we can use saffron which will give light yellow colour in the biriyani.

Comments

15 responses to “Hyderabadi Biryani”

  1. MasterChef Avatar

    It may taste good since all the ingredients are there, but, Come on maan this is not Hyderabadi Biryani, this is a different type of Pullau but definitely not Biryani… I am from Hyderabad and please do not disgrace our favorite dish…

    Regards,
    MC

    1. janu Avatar
      janu

      If you cannot encourage ppl atleast dont discouage them by finding faults Mr .Master chef !!

  2. seema Avatar
    seema

    tried this sterday Divs, wonderful taste, v all loved. tks for the nice recipe.

    1. M Divya Avatar
      M Divya

      Thank u seema……Divya Mubarak

  3. S.Priya Avatar
    S.Priya

    Divya tried ur hyderbadi biriyani for sterday lunch..we really enjoyed a lot..as u told i got a slight greenish colour of biriyani,as i didnt add red chilly powder..

    1. M Divya Avatar
      M Divya

      Divya Mubarak
      Thanks priya….i think u enjoyed it…..really feeling happy….thanks again…biriyani looks ggr8…

  4. ammbi Avatar
    ammbi

    This is an awesome recipe. I tried it out with a slight twist to the recipe by replacing curd with cream and it added more richness to the briyani.It is the finest briyani I had ever tasted.Thanks a lot Divya.

    1. M Divya Avatar
      M Divya
      Thanks ammbi, yeah modification gives always a good result.. thanks again…
      Divya Mubarak
  5. abhimuthu Avatar
    abhimuthu

    Divya,
    Nice biriyani. Thanks for detailed step pictures and procedure. I want to try you way. Will let you know.

  6. M Divya Avatar
    M Divya

    Thank u viji , seema and priya….Divya Mubarak

  7. m.viji Avatar
    m.viji

    looking nice divya

  8. m.viji Avatar
    m.viji

    looking nice divya

  9. m.viji Avatar
    m.viji

    looking nice divya

  10. S.Priya Avatar
    S.Priya

    Tempting biriyani Divya..nice colour..

  11. seema Avatar
    seema

    Nice traditional dish Divs….i like hyderabad chicken biriyani. here in chennai therez a shop named hyderabadi biriyani. hope ur recipe tastes as good as that one….shall try once and let u know