Awadhi/ Lucknow biriyani
A biriyani of west up
Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 2 hours hrs
Course Main Course
Cuisine Indian, North indian
Ingredients
- 500 gram mutton biriyani cut, curry cut, bone in no offals
- 230 gram basmathi long grain
Aromatic spice powder-
- 1 and 1/2 tsp fennel seed
- 12 green cardomomn
- 2 black cardomomn
- 1/2 tsp royal cummin/ black cumin
- 1/2 tsp clove
- 1/2 and 1/4 mace
- 1/4 nutmeg
- 1 star anise
- 3 stick cinamon 2 inch
- 1/2 tsp blackpeppercorn
Aromatic fragrance powder-
- 1/2 tsp dry rose petal
- 1 pinch sandalwood powder organic
Stock-
- 20 gram ginger chopped
- 25-30 gram garlic
- 3 green chillies
- 100 grams onion sliced
- 1 bayleaf large
- 15 gram yogurt
- 1 and 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
- 1 tsp kashmiri chilli powder
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp Raakshas special garama masala see blog
To cook the rice-
- 1/4 tsp aromatic spice powder
- 2 bayleaf medium
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tbsp ghee cow
Flavoured milk-
- 500` ml milk full fat buffalo milk
- 150 ml left over rice water after cooking the rice
- 1/2 tsp aromatic spice powder
- Prepared aromatic fragrance powder
- 15-20 strands saffron
- 2 tsp ghee cow
- 2-3 drop rose water
- 2 drop mitha attar
- 2-3 drop screwpine water
Oil +ghee mix-
- 3 tbsp sunflower oil
- 2 tbsp ghee cow
Garnish-
- 30 gram raisin
- 25-30 gram cashew split
Instructions
- Wash and soak the basmathi rice.
- Heat the oil and ghee mix and fry the garnish untill golden.
- Take out and in the remaining oil- ghee mix, add everything for the stock except the mutton, yogurt, and powdered spices.
- Saute everyting untill golden on hight to medium heat.
- Add the mutton and fry until slight golden.
- Lower the heat add the yogurt,powdered spices and salt.
- Stir and cook on low heat making sure the yogurt doesnt split, for 5-10 minutes.
- Then add 1 liter of of hot water, simmer on a low heat with lid on for one hour or untill the meat is 80% done.
- Mean while in a pot add water and the ingridients for the rice.
- When the water comes to a boil, add the soaaked rice and let it boil back up again.
- Let it boil untill the rice is 80%- 90% done. Strain the rice and keep it aside.
- Take some of that starchy rice water and save it.
- Add all the ingridients for the flavoured milk except mitha attar, rose water and screwpine water in a pot and let it simmer without boiling over.
- When the milk is slightly thickened and changed its color slightly due to saffron, turn the heat off
- Add the 3 remaining ingridients. Be carefull not to add too much of each of those. Those are pretty strong and can ruin the dish if added more than required.
- Take 25-50ml of the flavoured milk and keep it aside.
- Strain the mutton stock into the hot milk using a strainer lined with cloth.
- Add the mutton pieces back into the milk and stock mixture. Let it simmer on low heat for 1 minute. Never put a lid while the liquid is simmering.
- The milk wont curdle as the starch from the rice water prevents it.
- The total liquid should be 1/4 of the milk and stock combined in this case not more than 400ml.
- Layer the cooked rice on top of the meat and liquid. Pour the flavoured milk saved earlier on top of the rice.
- Then put the fried garnish and seal the pot tightly so as to not let any steam escape.
- Put a tawa or a gridle under the pot. First 2-5 minutes keep the flame on high then on low for 15- 20 minutes.
- Turn the heat off open the pot and serve.
Notes
- Awadhi/Lucknow biriyani is enriched with milk.
- Its mild and has a sweet smell due to the saffron and other essences being used.
Keyword Awadhi biriyani, Bihari Mutton, Doodh ki biriyani, Lucknow biriyani