HYDERABADI BIRYANI

 The ultimate of Nawabi cuisine.Cooked in the tandoori style- a
rich preparation of rice and mutton
INGREDIENTS
Basmati Rice 500 gms.
Mutton cut into small
pieces 1kg.
Garam Masala 2 tsp.
Red chilies 6 nos.
Cashewnuts A handful
Onions (sliced fine and
fried till crisp) 5 nos.
Cloves 2 nos.
Dalchini 2 pieces
Elaichi 3 nos.
Green chilies 6 nos.
Kothmir, chopped 1
small bunch
Pudina chopped 1 small
bunch
Ginger Garlic paste 3
tsp.
Saffron (dissolved in ¾
cup milk) 2 pinches
Curd beaten 1 cup
Lime juice 2 nos.
Eggs boiled 4 nos.
Ghee /Oil 5 tbsp.
Salt to taste
 METHOD
1. Grind the red chilies and cashewnuts to a fine paste.
2. To the mutton apply the ginger - garlic paste and beaten
curd. Set aside.
3. Heat 4 tablespoons ghee and
fry the red chili masala.
4. Add the marinated mutton, ¼ of the fried onion, one
teaspoon garam masala and salt to taste.
5. Keep frying till ghee separates. Add 1½ cups warm water.
Pressure cook till tender.
6. Heat dekchi, add 1 tbsp ghee and fry the sabut masala.
7. Add the rice and fry a little. Add the green chilies and salt
to taste.
8.Add enough warm water. Cook till rice is done, remove
and spread on a thali, discarding the whole masala.
9. Mix together the chopped kothmir, pudina, garam masala
and fried onion.
Set aside.
10.Take a heavy bottlomed dekchi and line it with ghee.
11.Spread a layer of rice and cover it with half of the mutton.
Sprinkle half of the pudina / kothmir mixture and juice of 1
lime.
12.Cover with rice, followed by a mutton layer. Finish with a
rice layer.
13.Sprinkle the rice with saffron milk and dot with ghee.
14.Cover tightly and place over a griddle for dum for 20
minutes. Serve hot, garnished with eggs cut into halves.