KOLKATA STYLE MUTTON BIRYANI
Kolkata Style Mutton Biryani..... One should also try this taste in this part of the country. Filled with the rich aroma of spices and ghee, the mutton biryani is simply heaven. Juicy, tender pieces of mutton, fried with the biryani on a Tava, this yummy recipe is a must try...!! |
Ingredients:
For the Meat:
- Mutton 500 gm
- Yoghurt 2 cups
- Tomato 2 chopped
- Onion sliced 2 large
- Ginger & Garlic paste 3 tablespoons
- Turmeric powder 1/2 teaspoon
- Red chili powder 1/2 teaspoon (Adjust to your taste)
- Cinnamon stick 1 long
- Cloves 4 to 5
- Green Cardamom pods 5 to 6
- Mace or Javetry 1/4 teaspoon
- Nutmeg or Jaifal 1/4 teaspoon
- Salt and sugar as per taste
- Mustard oil 4 tablespoons
- Potato 2 large halved
For Rice :
- Basmati rice 2 cups washed and soaked for 30 minutes in cold water
- Cinnamon stick 1 long
- Cloves 4 to 5
- Green Cardamom pods 5 to 6
- Black Cardamom pods 2
- Kabab chini or Cubeb 6 to 8
- Ghee 2 to 3 tablespoons
- Saffron 1 pinch dissolve into 1/2 cup water
- Salt
- COOKING MEAT:
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- Marinate the Mutton with all the ingredients except Mustard oil, written under the heading for Meat and keep refrigerated for over night or 8 hours.
- Now take a pan and heat oil and fry the potato and keep aside. Now pour the marinated meat into the pan and cover it for 15 minutes.
- Open the lid, and there will be lots of water which came out from the meat. Higher the oven and evaporate all the water and stir fry the meat with the fried potatoes till oil oozes from the meat.
- Now turn off the oven and take the potatoes out from the meat and keep aside.
- Take a pressure cooker and pour all the Meat along with the gravy into the cooker and add 1 1/2 cup of water and pressure cook up to 2-3 whistle.
- Turn off the heat and leave the cooker for 15-20 minutes. After the certain time open the cooker and again place on oven to evaporate the excess water of the meat.
- Make the mutton dry and keep aside for later use.
Preparing The Rice :- Take pan and boil 4 cups of water, 2 tablespoons of oil, some salt and Cinnamon stick, Cloves, Cardamom pods, Black Cardamom pods, Cubeb.
- When the water will start boiling add the soaked rice and cook till the rice is 70% done. Take a big Pasta Strainer and strain the rice.
- Now take large pan and brush some butter inside it. Spread half of the rice into the pan. Layer the cooked meat and potato & some Khoya or Mawa, and spread rest of the rice on the top of the meat. On the last layer of rice sprinkle some Garam Masala powder, Rose water, Kewda water, Saffron soaked water (you can make a paste of the saffron water) , Fried Onion & Ghee and cover the pan with lid and seal it with atta dough.
- Now take a large flat pan with water , place on the oven and place the biryani pan on the flat pan , turn on the oven on medium and cook the biryani on lower medium heat for 30-40 minutes.
- After 40 minutes turn off the oven but do not cut the seal. Before serving cut the seal and serve hot, yummy Kolkata Style Mutton Biryani.
Yummmmmmyyy😊
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