LUCKNOW BIRYANI

INGREDIENTS: 

Mutton: 1kg 

Basmathi Rice: 1/2kg 

Onions: 2 

Ginger garlic: 50gm 

Red chili powder: 1tsp 

Curd: 1cup 

Cloves: 5 

Ghee: 50gm 

Elaichi: 5 

Almonds (badam pappu): 50gm 

Cinnamon: 2inch piece 

Saffron: 1tsp 

Rose water: 1tsp 

Salt 

Coriander leaves

METHOD:

1. Cut onions into small pieces.
2. Make ginger garlic paste.
3. Make masala powder with elaichi, cloves, cinnamon.
4. Clean rice and soak it for 1hr
5. Take a thick pan. Heat half of the ghee and fry onion pieces. Once fried, take them into a plate.
6. Now, add mutton pieces, ginger garlic juice, red chili powder, salt, masala powder, curd mix well and fry.
7. After frying mutton for some time add 4cups of water and cook it on low flame.
8. Once the mutton pieces are softened then, separate water (mutton stock) and mutton pieces.
9. Take a pan and add ghee. Add, mutton pieces and fry until brown.
10. Heat remained ghee in the pan and add rice. Fry rice for 5mins on medium flame.
11. Take half of the rice and make layer on it with mutton and again with rice.
12. mix saffron with rose water. Pour this water on rice.
13. Now, add Mutton stock and cover it with plate and cook (Dum) for 30mins in sim.
14. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.