LAMB BIRYANI

Biryani is a rich and flavorful rice dish layered with a thick gravy of lamb. It is a simple, one-pot meal which is served with curd chutney.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 kg Lamb

• 3/4 kg basmati or any good quality rice

• 4 tbsp Ginger garlic paste

• 2 tsp Chilly pd

• 4-5 Green chilly

• 1/2 tsp Turmeric pd

• 4 Cloves

• 1 inch Cinnamon

• 4 Cardamom

• 2 Bay leaves

• 1 cup Oil

• 1 cup Curd

• 6 Onions

• 2 Potatoes ( optional )

• 1 Lime medium

• water

• 1/2 cup milk

• Saffron few strands ( optional )

• Handful Coriander leaves

• Handful Mint / pudina leaves

Curd chutney

• 1 cup curd

• Few coriander leaves

• Mint leaves

• Salt

• 1 green chilly ( optional )

Method

1. Heat oil golden fry onions remove and keep aside

2. In the remaining oil add cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, whole green chillies, ginger garlic paste fry it  well .

3. Add chilly pd and turmeric pd .

4. Add mutton and roast it well with the spices.

5. Add curd and potatoes cut into halves .

6. Pressure cook for 10 minutes.

7. Dry the liquid in the meat .

8. Add golden fried onions, coriander and mint leaves.

9. Squeeze lime in the gravy and give it a good mix

10. Remove little flavoured oil in a bowl.

11. Mix saffron in hot milk.

12. Parboil rice with 5-6 spoons of salt and lime peels in 8 cups of water till 3/4 done.

13. Pass the rice through a strainer and drain excess water.

14. Remove the lime peels from the parboiled rice.

15. In a vessel layer the rice, lamb gravy and rice.

16. Make a well in the midddle and add 1/2 cup of water

17. Add saffron milk and flavoured oil from  the mutton gravy.

18. Garnish  with few fried onions coriander and mint leaves.

19. Seal tightly with a lid and cook on low heat for half an hour.

20. Serve hot with curd chutney and enjoy