Kashmiri Biryani Recipe - Easy to Make at Home Recipe

Kashmiri Biryani

Full of flavor as well as fragrance, Kashmiri-Biryani is one of the most coveted Muslim festive dishes, prepared on the occasion of Bakri Id, throughout the sub-continent. The exquisite spices indigenous to the Jammu and Kashmir region of India, used in preparing this particular type of Biryani, provides it with a soul satiating taste and hence explains its name. Though, now a significant par of Indian cuisine, the origins of Biryani can be traced back to Iran, from where with traders and merchants its recipe came the sub-continent. This article elucidates simple steps to make delicious, Kashmiri-Biryani.

Ingredients:

1 Kg Basmati Rice

1 Kg Chicken

750 gms Mutton

150 gms Ghee

200 ml Milk

2 tsp Curds

2 tsp Red Chilli Powder

1 pinch Asafoetida

1 tsp Garam masala powder

1 tsp Dry ginger powder

1/4 tsp Cardamom Powder

2 tsp Fennel seed powder

1/4 tsp Kewra essence

2 gms Saffron

1/4 tsp Sugar

Salt to taste

Preparation:

First and foremost heat ghee in a pan.

Add assafoetida, and mutton pieces, to the preheated ghee.

Then while frying the ingredients, add curd to the mixture and keep frying until the paste turns pinkish in color.

Now, add salt and water to the paste in the heated pan and mix them well.

Next, add bayleaf, chilli powder, ginger powder to the concoction and keep the gas on and then, add about 1/2 lit water.

While stirring, add 1tbsp fennel seeds and 1/2 tbsp garam masala to mixture and keep it simmering, until it is cooked properly.

Next, take out the mutton pieces and place them separately.

Now boil two liters of water and add 2tbsp salt to it.

Take a piece of cloth and tie garam masala along with rest of the fennel seeds and put the small satchel in the boiling water.

Now add rice to the already boiling water and cook on a light flame, till half done.

Drain out the water from the rice and then, take a baking tray, place alternate layers of rice and mutton on top of each other.

Finally add ghee and milk to the baking tray, and then place the dish in a preheated oven, until cooked completely.