Mutton Biryani

Recipe Type:	Non Veg.
Difficulty:	Average

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kg Mutton (cleaned and cut into pieces)
• 2 cups Basmati Rice
• Few flakes garlic
• 3 tsp Coriander Powder
• Dried coconut
• 1 inch stick Cinnamon
• 3 Green Chillies
• 1 tsp Chilli Powder
• 1 cup Onion (chopped)
• 1 inch piece Ginger
• 1 tsp Poppy Seeds
• 3 Peppercorns Cloves
• 3 Cardamoms Cloves
• 1 cup Curd
• 1/2 cup Onion
• 2 Bay leaf
• 8 tbsp Fat
• Salt to taste

Cooking Instructions:

• Marinate the meat in curd taken in a bowl.
• Roast cardamom, cinnamon, peppercorns cloves. Make a fine powder.
• Grind ginger, red chillies, green chillies, half the onions, garlic and dried kernel of the coconut.
• Now heat fat in a pan. Add chopped onions and ground spices.
• Fry until onions turn golden brown.
• Now add meat and fry well. Add poppy seed powder.
• Add salt and remaining curd. Cook till meat becomes tender.
• Add powdered spices to it and remove from the flame.
• Fry remaining onions in fat in a separate pan.
• Add cloves and bay leaf.
• Fry for few minutes and add rice.
• Fry for another few minutes.
• Put salt to taste and make the quantity of water double.
• Remove from the flame when rice gets cooked and no moisture is left.
• Arrange a part of cooked rice in a pan and sprinkle saffron water over it.
• Place the meat over it and cover with rice layer once again.
• Garnish with fried onions and nuts.
• Mutton Biryani is ready.