Mutton Biryani – Easy Recipe

Mutton Biryani

You know what I've got today? I've got Mutton Biryani recipe. This is for the meat lovers. Vegetarians have to wait for the next post again. By the way this is not according to the recipe given on Indian Cuisines iPad and iPhone application but is written according to how one would prepare without the help of the application. Here it goes.

Necessary Ingredients

• 2 cups Basmati Rice
• 1/2 kg mutton
• 2 medium red onion (sliced)
• 2 teaspoon Ginger-Garlic-green chilli paste
• 1/2 teaspoon red chilli powder
• 4 teaspoon ghee (as is traditionally) otherwise vegetable oil can also be used
• 1/2 teaspoon kewra or mitha antar
• 1 teaspoon black pepper (whole)
• 5 green cardamom
• 2 black cardamom
• 1 inch cinnamon
• 1 star anise
• 2 mace
• 1 nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon sahi jeera
• 1/2 teaspoon Whole White pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon clove
• 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric
• Salt to taste

Method of Preparation

Even though this method differs from what is given in the iPhone application but it will be of great help for those who don't have an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

To begin with, wash the rice, drain it and marinate it with green cardamom, black cardamom, cinnamon, anise, mace, nutmeg, sahi jeera, white pepper, clove, turmeric and a teaspoon of ghee. Mix them well and keep marinate it for one to two hours.

Cook the mutton in a pressure cooker with with water, preferred amount of salt and whole black pepper and make the cooker whistle once.

Take a thick bottomed pan, put a teaspoon of ghee and fry the sliced onion until the color changes to golden brown. Then, take half of the fried onions and keep it aside.

Add a teaspoon of ghee, ginger-garlic-green chilli paste and red chilli powder fry the mixture and add the cooked mutton which is already strained in the mixture. Fry it until ghee separates. The stock is also kept aside.

Now remove the mutton from the pan then add the marinated rice and mutton stock. In case the mutton stock is less for the rice to be properly cooked, add water. Cook the rice until it is perfectly cooked.

When the rice is cooked, mixed it with the cooked mutton, a teaspoon of ghee and kewra, mix well, garnish with the fried onions.

Mutton Biryani

Now, your Mutton Biryani is ready to be served. For more easy and visual aid to the recipe, download Indian Cuisines from iTunes.

*Image herein depicted may differ from the original dish.