Mutton Biryani

Ingredients:
• 1/2 kg Mutton (cleaned and cut into pieces)

• 2 cups Basmati Rice

• Few flakes garlic

• 3 tsp Coriander Powder

• Dried coconut

• 1 inch stick Cinnamon

• 3 Green Chillies

• 1 tsp Chilli Powder

• 1 cup Onion (chopped)

• 1 inch piece Ginger

• 1 tsp Poppy Seeds

• 3 Peppercorns Cloves

• 3 Cardamoms Cloves

• 1 cup Curd

• 1/2 cup Onion

• 2 Bay leaf

• 8 tbsp Fat

• Salt to taste
Directions:

Marinate the meat in curd taken in a bowl.
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Roast cardamom, cinnamon, peppercorns cloves. Make a fine powder.
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Grind ginger, red chillies, green chillies, half the onions, garlic and dried kernel of the coconut.
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Now heat fat in a pan. Add chopped onions and ground spices.
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Fry until onions turn golden brown.
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Now add meat and fry well. Add poppy seed powder.
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Add salt and remaining curd. Cook till meat becomes tender.
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Add powdered spices to it and remove from the flame.
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Fry remaining onions in fat in a separate pan.
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Add cloves and bay leaf.
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Fry for few minutes and add rice.
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Fry for another few minutes.
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Put salt to taste and make the quantity of water double.
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Remove from the flame when rice gets cooked and no moisture is left.
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Arrange a part of cooked rice in a pan and sprinkle saffron water over it.
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Place the meat over it and cover with rice layer once again.
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Garnish with fried onions and nuts.
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Mutton Biryani is ready.