Hyderabadi Mutton Biryani

Hyderabadi Mutton Biryani:

Recipe:

For Marination:

·   2kg - lamb, cubed with bone

·   1/2 kg - Curd

·   6 tsp - Ginger Garlic paste

·   5 deep fried, onions, sliced

·   2 bunches - deep fried, Mint leaves

·   3 bunches - Coriander leaves

·   5 deep fried, green chillies, sliced

·   2 tsp - Garam Masala powder

·   Raw spices: 5 - Bay Leaves

·   5 - Cloves

·   5 - Cinnamon sticks

·   5 - Cardamom

·   1 tsp - Fennel seeds

·   3 tsp - Red Chilli powder

·   1/2 cup - Lime juice

·   3 tsp - Ghee

·   A pinch of Saffron

·   1 cup - Milk

·   3 sliced Green chillies for using in boiling Rice

·   Salt to taste

·   1/2 cup - oil; you can use the same oil in which you have fried Onions

·         1 cup - Mutton bones stock

·         Raw papaya paste to tenderise mutton

For Cooking Rice:

• ·         Good quality Basmati rice 1 kg
• ·         Spices
• ·         Oil
• ·         Salt to taste

Prepetaion:

            Marinade Mutton with above mentioned ingredients for atleast 4 hours (preferable overnight) so that the flavours of the spices will get into the mutton and mutton will get juice and soft.

            To prepare rice soak the good quality basmati rice in water for atleast ½ hour to 1 hour so that you will get long and soft rice while cooking.

            Now pour water into a vessel and pour oil and add some amount of salt for rice to cook and wait till the water comes to boiling then add rice into the boiling water and add spices into the water.Do not stir the rice more often so that the rice will not break.

            When the rice is 75% cooked drain the water and layer the rice on the marinated mutton and on top of that add some ghee,brown onions,mint and coriander and pour saffron milk on top  and seal the vessel with wheat or maida dough on the lid.

            Cook the biryani on high flame for 5 minutes and put a tawa on the flame and keep the biryani vessel on top of it and cook it in low flame for 30 to 45 mins till you get the steam outside.Then switch off the flame.

            Then open the lid and you will see the mouth watering Mutton biryani smiling at you!!!. Goes well with Mirchi ka salan and Raitha.