Hyderabadi Mutton Biryani

HYDERABADI MUTTON BIRYANI

The ultimate of Nawabi cuisine.Cooked in the tandoori style- a
rich preparation of rice and mutton.

Ingredients:
Basmati Rice 500 gms.
Mutton cut into small pieces 1kg.
Garam Masala 2 tsp.
Red chilies 6 nos.
Cashewnuts A handful
Onions (sliced fine and fried till crisp) 5 nos.
Cloves 2 nos.
Dalchini 2 pieces
Elaichi 3 nos.
Green chilies 6 nos.
Kothmir, chopped 1small bunch
Pudina chopped 1 small bunch
Ginger Garlic paste 3 tsp.
Saffron (dissolved in ¾ cup milk) 2 pinches
Curd beaten 1 cup
Lime juice 2 nos.
Eggs boiled 4 nos.
Ghee /Oil 5 tbsp.
Salt to taste

Method:

• Grind the red chilies and cashewnuts to a fine paste.
• To the mutton apply the ginger - garlic paste and beaten curd. Set aside.
• Heat 4 tablespoons ghee and fry the red chili masala.
• Add the marinated mutton, ¼ of the fried onion, one teaspoon garam masala and salt to taste.
• Keep frying till ghee separates. Add 1½ cups warm water.
• Pressure cook till tender.
• Heat dekchi, add 1 tbsp ghee and fry the sabut masala.
• Add the rice and fry a little. Add the green chilies and salt to taste.
• Add enough warm water. Cook till rice is done, remove and spread on a thali, discarding the whole masala.
• Mix together the chopped kothmir, pudina, garam masala and fried onion.
• Set aside.
• Take a heavy bottlomed dekchi and line it with ghee.
• Spread a layer of rice and cover it with half of the mutton.
• Sprinkle half of the pudina / kothmir mixture and juice of 1 lime.
• Cover with rice, followed by a mutton layer. Finish with a rice layer.
• Sprinkle the rice with saffron milk and dot with ghee.
• Cover tightly and place over a griddle for dum for 20 minutes. 
• Serve hot, garnished with eggs cut into halves.