• • Prep Time
  • 20 Minutes
• • Cook Time
  • 120 Minutes
• • Serving
  • 4
  • 4

Ingredients

For Badshahi Biryani Recipe

Spices to grind

Instructions

1. Clean, wash and drain rice for 20 minutes. Soak saffron in milk in separate bowl.
2. Then fry sliced onions to a golden brown colour. Keep half of fried onion for layering and use half of them for spices.
3. Now grind half of fried onion, ginger, green chillies, garlic and almonds to a smooth paste. Now mix this with curd and salt and marinate the mutton with this mixture.
4. Now take whole red chilli, cumin seeds, cardamoms, cloves, cinnamon, stone flower, black pepper, mace and nutmeg in a grinder jar. Grind the spices in a smooth paste and keep it aside.
5. Heat oil in a pan and add bay leaves and half of the chopped onion in it cook it till brown.
6. Once onion becomes brown then add marinated mutton. Cook it in low flame for sometimes.
7. Add the ground spices paste (keep 1 table spoon for rice) and cook it covered on very low flame for 40- 45 minutes.
8. Now add water and cook on low flame till meat becomes tender and about 1 cup of gravy is left.
9. Put clarified butter in another pan. Add remaining chopped onion and cook it for 5 minutes.
10. Now add rice and the remaining 1 table spoon of spice paste and salt. Cook this for 2-3 minutes and immediately add water.
11. Cook it till rice becomes half cooked. Remove it from flame and let it cool for sometime.

Layering and Dum of Biryani

• 1. Take a heavy bottom big pan (handi) and put little ghee in it.
• 2. Put a layer of rice then sprinkle half of the mutton and then spread a layer of fried onion and then again put a layer of rice. ( If you are making it in large quantity, You can repeat the layering).
• 3. Add the saffron soaked in milk, coriander leaves and lemon juice.
• 4. Now pour some butter and cover the vessel and seal the edges with flour paste.
• 5. Place the pan on very low flame for one hour.
• 6. Serve delicious "Badshahi Biryani" with Raita.

• Recipe Type : Mutton, Non vegetarian, Rice/ biryani