Hyderabadi Biriyani
world famous biriyani from hyderbad
Prep Time 6 hours hrs
Cook Time 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins
Total Time 7 hours hrs 10 minutes mins
Course Main Course, Maincourse
Cuisine hyderabadi, Indian
Servings 6
Ingredients
- 1 kg mutton Biriyani cut/ Curry cut
- 450 gram basmathi rice long grain
- 8 eggs hard boiled
- 200 grams onion sliced
- 1 tsp ghee cow
Escence-
- 100 ml water hot (80 to 90℃)
- 15-20 strands saffron
- 2-3 drop screwpine water
- 2-3 drop rose water
Oil and ghee mix-
- 4 tbsp sunflower oil
- 1 tbsp ghee cow
Garnish-
- 30 gram raisin
- 30 gram cashew
- 10 gram coriander leaf chopped
- 5-10 gram mint leaf chopped
- 50-55 gram onion sliced, fried in oil and ghee mix
Marination-
- 12 gram mint leaf
- 15 grams coriander leaf
- 15 gram pineapple
- 20 grams ginger
- 60-65 gram garlic
- 4 green chillies mild
- 50 grams onion fried in oil and ghee mix
- 1/2 lime/lemon juiced
- 3-4 tbsp oil and ghee mix after frying the onions
- 15 gram yogurt thick
- 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
- 1 tsp kashmiri chilli powder
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 and 1/2 tsp All in one hyderabadi shahi biriyani masala see blogpost
- 1 and 1/2 tsp salt
To cook rice-
- 2 bayleaf large
- 1/2 tsp blackpeppercorn
- 1/2 tsp cubbeb pepper
- 4 sticks cinamon 2 inch each
- 8 green cardomomn crushed
- 2 black cardomomn crushed
- 1/2 tsp fennel seed
- 1/4 tsp clove
- 2 star anise
- 1 tsp salt
- 2-3 tsp Oil ghee mix remaining after frying onions
- 1/2 lemon without seed
Instructions
- Heat the oil and ghee mix.
- Fry the onion slices at a medium- low heat untill golden.
- Take out and dry. Reserve the oil mix for later use.
- Grind all the ingridients listed under marination except the lemon/ lime juice and the remaining oil and ghee mix after the frying..
- Now mix the prepared paste and rest of the ingridients listed under marination into the meat and marinate for a maximum of over night or minimum of 6 hours.
- Meanwhile prepare the escence by mix all the ingridients listed under essence and keeping the liquid in a closed container and let it cool gradualy in the fridge for at least 4 hours after comming to room temp.
- Soak the boiled eggs in a mix of water and 50ml essence for over night in the fridge.
- Wash and soak the rice for 30 minutes.
- In a big, wide pot of water put all the ingridients listed for the rice.
- Let it boil for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Strain out all the whole spices and lemon when the color of the water has changed and turned a bit dark.
- Reheat the strained liquid and let it come to a boil. Add the soaked rice.
- Let the rice boil untill its 50- 75% done.
- Layer the half cooked rice on top of the marinated meat.
- Add 1 tsp of ghee to the remaining oil and ghee mix and spread it on top of the rice.
- Now spread the remaining essence on top.
- Mix the ingridients for the garnish and spread on top.
- Seal the pot tightly by using a lid and dough or aluminium foil.
- Put the pot under a tawa.
- Keep it on medium to high heat for 10 minutes and on low for an hour.
- Turn the heat off and let it rest for 10-15 minutes.
- Serve it with the saffronised eggs.
Notes
- This is a kachi biriyani where raw marinated meat is layered with half cooked rice. Then its further cooked in a sealed pot on low heat for a long time.
- Serve it wit raitha and mirchi ka salan.
Keyword Biriyani, hyderabadi Biriyani