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Fish Dum Briyani Recipe

Fish Dum Briyani Recipe with step by step pictures. This is a spicy, flavorful and delicious biryani prepared by layering fried fish and put to dum with a layer of basmati rice and cooked to perfection.
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Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 531kcal

Ingredients

  • For Cooking Rice:
  • 2 cups Basmati Rice
  • Water - lots of it
  • 4 Cardamom / Yelakai
  • 4 Cloves / Krambu
  • 1 small stick Cinnamon / Pattai
  • 1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Jeera
  • 2 Bay Leaf
  • 3 tsp Salt
  • For Fried Fish:
  • ½ kg Fish Pieces Use firm white fleshed fish
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tsp Chilli powder
  • 1 tsp Coriander powder / Malli podi
  • 1 tsp Turmeric powder / Manjal podi
  • 1 tsp Cumin powder / Jeera podi
  • Lemon Juice - to taste
  • ¼ cup Oil
  • For Briyani:
  • 1 Pandan Leaves / Briyani leaf
  • 2 large thinly sliced Onion
  • 3 slit Green Chilli
  • 2 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste
  • 1 tsp Chilli powder
  • 1 tbsp Coriander powder / Malli podi
  • 1 tsp Turmeric powder / Manjal podi
  • 1 tsp Cumin powder / Jeera podi
  • 2 tsp Garam Masala Powder
  • 1 large chopped Tomato
  • 1 cup Curd
  • ½ cup finely chopped Mint Leaves
  • ½ cup finely chopped Coriander leaves
  • Salt to taste
  • For Saffron Milk:
  • Saffron - a pinch
  • ¼ cup Warm Milk

Instructions

  • Wash and Soak rice for 30 mins. Now boil lots of water with all the ingredients given for cooking rice.
  • Add the soaked rice in the water and cook it for 8 to 10 mins till the grains are 90 percentage cooked. Drain it in a colander and set aside.
  • Mix saffron with warm milk and set aside to steep.
  • Marinate the fish in the ingredients given for 30 mins.
  • Heat oil in a heavy bottom pan(this is the pan where you are going to make briyani).
  • Add the fish pieces in this oil and cook them for 5 mins on each side. Remove them to a plate.
  • In the remaining oil, add in pandan leaves and fry them for few mins.
  • Add in sliced onions, green chilli and saute for 5 mins or so.
  • Once the onion is cooked, add in ginger garlic paste and saute them for a min.
  • Now add in all the spice powders and mix them for 30 sec.
  • Add in tomatoes and a splash of water. Cook this for 5 mins till the tomatoes is mashed completely.
  • Add in salt, mint leaves, coriander leaves and curd. Mix well.
  • Cook this for 5 mins till the masala is completely cooked.
  • Now spoon the cooked rice on top and add some more coriander and mint leaves.
  • Drizzle over some saffron milk and place the fish pieces on top of the rice.
  • Cover this whole thing and place over a heavy bottom iron tawa and put the tawa on low heat.
  • Let this whole thing be on dum for 15 to 20 mins. Open the lid and mix everything up.
  • Serve this briyani with raita.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 531kcal | Carbohydrates: 77g | Protein: 13g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 10g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 2mg | Sodium: 1776mg | Potassium: 149mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 324IU | Vitamin C: 0.03mg | Calcium: 127mg | Iron: 2mg
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