Most of the people like to eat rice items especially biryani recipes.Now a days many like to prefer biryanies in any occasion.Plain biryani recipe taste is normal if you compare with mutton or chicken biryani... because of rice is cooking with mutton that gives nice smell and tasty to the rice.
Many people think that preparing biryani is very difficult and only experienced persons should do it.That is not correct.This is very simple and easy preparation of mutton biryani.Very famous in south india especially in andhra....
Ingredients
| Mutton | 1 kg |
| Basmati rice | 1 kg |
| oil | 5 spoons |
| ghee | 5 spoons |
| cloves | 8 |
| elaichi | 2 |
| cinnamon | 1 inch stick |
| star anise | 1 |
| mace | 1 |
| bay leaf | 3 |
| waillong | 2 |
| onion | 2 |
| green chilles | 5 |
| ginger garlic paste | 2 spoons |
| tomato | 1 |
| salt | to taste |
| For Mutton Marination | |
| salt | to taste or 1 spoon |
| red chill powder | 1/2 spoon |
| turmeric | 1/4 spoon |
| ginger garlic paste | 2 spoons |
| creamy curd | 1 cup |
| garam masala | 1 spoons |
| mint leaves | few |
| coriander leaves | few |
| lemon juice | 2 spoons |
Preparation
Wash basmati rice with water and soak in the water for 30 minutes.
Wash the mutton pieces with plenty of water and drain completely.
Wash coriander leaves and mint leaves.Cut coriander leaves into small pieces.
Take a big mixing bowl.Add all marination masalas and mix all well.Apply all masala to mutton pieces and put on the lid and marinate for 45 minutes (at least).
Soak bay leaves in the water.
Make ginger garlic paste.
Make garam masala powder.
Wash the onion and green chillies and cut into long sliced pieces.
Method
1.Take a big thickened bottom vessel and put on the flame.
2.Add oil when vessel is heated.
3.Add ghee when oil is heated.
4.Add cloves,elachi,cinnamon,star anise,mace and waillong.Fry for 2 minutes.Add soaked bay leaves.and stir .
5.Add long sliced onion pieces and green chillies and fry till onions become to transparent.
6.Add ginger garlic paste and fry till raw smell from the paste gone out.
7.Then add tomato pieces and cook for 2 minutes.
8.Add marinated mutton pieces with masala and mix all well.Cook for 30 to 40 minutes in low flame and cover with the lid.
9.When mutton pieces cooked well add water (1 and 1/2 liter water per 1 kg rice).Add salt and stir it.
10.When salt is completely dissolved in the water then taste the water .
11.Water should be salty that means salt is enough for that rice.
12.Water is not salty then add some more salt and stir well.cover the lid.
13.When water is starting to boil add soaked basmathi rice(completely drained).and mix well.Cover with lid.
14.Cook till basmati rice cooked well.
15.Finally add finely chopped coriander leaves and put off the flame.
Serve this Mutton biryani with chicken kurma.....Enjoy!.....
Keep in the mind
Soaked bay leaf gives good aroma to the recipe.
Adding ghee is optional.
Mutton should be cut into medium size or big size pieces.Do not cut into small pieces like curry.
Adding tomato also optional.
Curd should be add.Creamy curd is preferable.
