Here is the recipe for biriyani in my style. This is the simple way of making biriyani. We can also make biriyani in many styles, pressure cooker biriyani,kabsa ,majboos etc...
I here posting chicken dum biriyani's photo. You can make Mutton biriyani, Beef biriyani in the same way..
Meat Marination
- Meat-1 kg
- Yoghurt-1/2 Cup
- Garam Masala Powder-1tbsp
- Turmeric Powder-1/2 Tsp
- Red Chilli Powder-1 Tsp
- Lemon juice or Vinegar-1 tbsp
Gravy for Biriyani
- Onions Sliced-6 medium sized
- Green Chillies-5-6 no.s according to your spice level
- Ginger Garlic Paste-3 Tsp
- Tomato-2 big chopped
- Yogurt-2 tbsp
- Turmeric Pwd-1 Tsp
- Garam Masala Powder-1 tbsp
- Coriander Pwd-2 tbsp
- Red chilli powder-1 tbsp
- Tomato Sauce-1 tbsp
- Lemon Juice- Juice of 1 lemon
- Coriander leaves-few chopped
- Curry leaves-few chopped
- Oil-As required
- Salt-As required
For Rice
- Basmathi Rice-4 Cups
- Cinnamon-2 inch
- Cardamom-4 no.s
- Cloves-3 no.s
- Salt-as required
- Lemon juice of 1 lemon
Other ingredients for biriyani
- Onion-Very thinly sliced
- Cashew nuts-15-20 no.s
- Raisins-20-25 no.s
- Coriander Leaves-A handful chopped
- Puthina / Mint leaves- A handful chopped.
- Rose Water-2 tablespoons
- Pineapple chopped-1/2 pineapple
- Water -As required.
- Ghee/Oil-As needed
- Take all your ingredients and keep aside.
- Wash the measured rice and soak them for 10 mins.
- Cook the rice with a lot of water, required salt, lemon juice and masalas under "For rice".
- When the rice is partially cooked turn off the flame and drain the water from it.
- Marinate the meet with the ingredients under "Meet Marination" and keep aside for 1 hour.
- After one hour cook the meet with 1/2 a cup of water and set aside.
(You can fry the pieces if you want..It is also tasty and it will help the pieces from breaking)
Step 3
- Let us make the masala gravy for biriyani.
- Heat oil in a pan and add ginger garlic paste, Onion, green chillies and saute until it is cooked well.
- Add the tomato, yoghurt and tomato ketchup and saute well for sometime
- Then add all the leaves listed under the "gravy for biriyani".
- Next, add all the spice powders. Saute for 3 minutes
- Gravy is ready. Mix cooked Meet pieces with this gravy and Set Aside.
- Heat some ghee in a frying pan.
- Fry onion until brown colour.
- Next fry cashews and raisins. and set aside..
- Next is the dum process
- Apply some ghee at the bottom of a heavy bottomed pan.place 1/2 of the gravy and pieces at the bottom and spread it.
- Next put 1/2 of the cooked rice and spread this. Spread some ghee, rose water, pineapple, fried nuts, onions, raisins, coriander leaves and mint leaves. Repeat this layering process for one more time
- Cover it and place it for dum.
- Wait for 25 min... Awesome biriyani is ready
Serve the hot biriyani with salad, pickle and pappadam. Enjoy...
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