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Easy Mutton Dum Biryani Recipe | Lamb Biryani Recipe

Easy Mutton Dum Biryani Recipe with step by step pictures. This is made with Mutton, Basmathi Rice and Whole Spices.
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings: 6 servings

Ingredients

  • 250 grams Basmati Rice
  • 5 tblspn Oil / Ghee
  • 2 large sliced thinly Onions
  • 5 to 6 Green Chillies
  • 1 tblspn Ginger Garlic Paste
  • ½ cup chopped Mint Leaves
  • ½ cup chopped Coriander Leaves
  • a pinch Saffron
  • a pinch Yellow Food Colour optional
  • 3 tblspn Warm Milk
  • For Mutton:
  • 250 grams Mutton
  • 1 cup Water
  • ½ cup Curd / Yogurt
  • Salt to taste
  • 2 to 3 Green Chillies
  • Whole Spices:
  • 1 tsp Fennel Seeds / Sombu / Saunf
  • 1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam
  • 2 cm piece Cinnamon / Pattai
  • 3 Cardamom / Yelakai
  • 3 Cloves / Krambu
  • 1 Bay Leaf
  • 1 piece Black Stone Flower / Kal Paasi
  • 1 Star Anise

Instructions

  • Take mutton and all the ingredients given for cooking mutton in a pressure cooker and cook for 5 whistle. Simmer for 10 mins. Turn off the heat and let the steam go all by itself. Open the cooker and check whether the mutton is done. Now set aside.
  • Take saffron and milk in a bowl and let it steep. If it didn't get good colour, add little yellow food colour.
  • Wash and soak rice for 30 mins. Drain it and cook by this method. Drain and set aside.
  • Now heat oil or ghee in a kadai. Add in whole spices and let them sizzle for 1 mins.
  • Add in onions, salt and chillies. Cook till it gets golden brown.
  • Add in ginger garlic paste and saute for a min till raw smell leaves from it.
  • Now drain the cooked mutton and add the mutton pieces alone in the kadai. Saute it for 5 to 8 mins till it gets nice colour.
  • Now add in the drained stock and reduce it till it gets thick.
  • Add in mint and coriander leaves reserve little for topping.
  • Now lay the cooked rice and top with the coriander and mint leaves, pour the saffron milk and cover with a tight lid.
  • Place this kadai over a heavy bottom tawa and put the flame to the lowest as possible.
  • Cook  on dum for 15 mins. Turn off the heat and let it stay for 10 mins.
  • Open the lid and give a gentle mix.
  • Serve

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