Back to 4 servings 2 lb mutton 1 teaspoon ginger paste 2 teaspoon garlic paste 3.5 dry red chili, 3-4 2.5 cinnamon sticks, 2-3 sticks, half inches each 4.5 green cardamom, 4-5 1 teaspoon cumin 0.5 teaspoon cloves 0.5 teaspoon mace 0.125 teaspoon nutmeg 7 allspice, 6-8, optional 0.5 teaspoon caraway seed, optional 3 tablespoon yogurt 0.75 cup ghee or butter 5 medium potato 1 pinch orange food color, optional 0.5 cup onion, thinly sliced 4 cups basmati or kalijeera rice, I use a 160ml cup to measure my rice. Adjust accordingly. 6 cups water 0.5 cup condensed milk 2 tablespoon milk 1 pinch saffron 11 alubokhara (pitted prunes), 10-12 4 eggs, hard boiled Salt, according to taste
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1 Step 1: Sprinkle some salt on the meat and let stand for 15-20 minutes. Wash the meat and drain all water.2 Step 2: Take all the spice from red chili to caraway seed, grind.3 Step 3: Take the pot where biryani will be cooked. Add the meat and yogurt, ground spice mix, garlic and ginger paste and salt. Marinate for anywhere between 30 minutes to overnight (see notes).4 Step 4: Add about 3 tablespoon of butter/ghee on a frying pan on medium heat.5 Step 5: Add very thinly sliced onion and sautee until fragrant and golden brown.6 Step 6: Wash, peel and cut the potato in big chinks. Usually into 3 pieces for a medium Idaho potato.7 Step 7: If using, rub some orange food color to the potato.8 Step 8: Sprinkle some salt.9 Step 9: Fry the potatoes until slightly golden on the same pan used for the onion.10 Step 10: Wash rice and drain all water.11 Step 11: Boil 6 cups of water. Add salt.12 Step 12: Add the rice.13 Step 13: Turn off the stove at the first sight of water boiling again (bubble forming on the water) after adding the rice. Rice will be uncooked at this point.14 Step 14: Drain the rice completely saving the drained hot water in another clean pot.15 Step 15: Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.16 Step 16: Soak the saffron to the milk.17 Step 17: Add butter/ghee to 1 cup of hot water that was set aside in the rice preparing step.18 Step 18: Add the prepared potatoes on top of the marinated meat.19 Step 19: Sprinkle some fried onion.20 Step 20: Add the alubokhara (prunes), if using.21 Step 21: Add half the water-butter mixture.22 Step 22: Layer in the prepared rice.23 Step 23: Sprinkle the saffron milk.24 Step 24: Make 4-5 indentations from the rice layer through the potato till the meat.25 Step 25: Add the condensed milk through the indentations.26 Step 26: Sprinkle the remaining water-butter mixture.27 Step 27: Sprinkle the remaining fried onion.28 Step 28: Add the remaining hot water in a way that water doesn't go above the rice layer. You may not need to use all of the hot water.29 Step 29: Cook in the oven for 1.5 hours.30 Step 30: Add the hard boiled eggs.31 Step 31: Serve with salad, kabab and chutney.getsaucepan.com/r/600aa44c-fb27-4844-9ca1-fcd9ed6195a7 · Original: https://withaspin.com/2013/03/29/kachchi-biryani/
