Mutton Biriyani made in oven
This recipe was shared by a friend long time back. This has been tried, tested and tasted many times since and it has always stood the test of time and passed with flying colours.
Ingredients
- Rice- 5 cups
- Mutton- 1 kg
- Fried onion-1 cup
- yogurt- 6 Tablespoon
- cilantro
- pudina (mint leaves)
- tomato- 1 chopped
- vegetable Oil- 1 cup (heat it up and then cool it down)
- ginger- 2tsp
- garlic-2tsp
- butter
- milk
- kesar (saffron)
- lime juice
- rose essence
- cashews (optional)
Dry Masala ( Dry grind these)
- Elaichi (Green cardamom)-15
- cook elaichi (cardamom)-1
- Dalchini (cinnamon)- 8″
- cloves-10
- Nutmeg-1
- Mace- 1tsp
- Shahi jeera (black cumin)- 2 Table spoon
Preparation
- Marinate the mutton with salt and ginger garlic paste, leave it for 2 hrs and then add the dry masala, chopped tomato, cilantro, pudina, yogurt and crushed fried onion
- Leave it to marinate overnight
- Cook rice by adding salt, cilantro, butter, shahi jeera whole (1 tsp), some elaichi and dalchini and cloves (cook rice in ur own way like using a pressure, cooker, rice cooker, or seiving through the starch but do add all the above mentioned stuffs and see that the rice is just a pinch away from not done, so cool down the rice as soon as possible)
- Take a covered metal vessel, grease the vessel with butter generously.
- Spread the mutton at the bottom and then add the cooked rice on the top.
- Sprinkle kesar and milk(1/2cup) lime juice, and rose esence on the top.
- Bake at 350F for 1hr- 1hr10min
- You can also add roasted cashews on the top
- Check after 40min and turn it a bit and again cover for the rest of the time