Mutton biryani

Mutton biryani
Total Time: 1 hours
Preparation Time: 30 minutes (excludes marination time)
Baking Time: 30 minutes
Serves: 4-5
Ingredients:
 Marinade
 2 lbs Goat meat cut into pieces
 ¾ – 1 cup yogurt
 2 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste
 2 tsp Chili Powder
 14 small Chilies split into two (adjust to your taste)
 1 cup chopped Mint Leaves
 1 cup chopped Cilantro
 Salt to Taste (sufficient for the meat)
 Garam Masala Powder
 10 Pepper Corns
 10 Coves
 ½ tsp Cardamom Seeds
 ½ tsp Sahajeera or Black Cumin
 1” Cinnamon Stick
 1 Large Onion sliced
 1 Lime
 1 cup Oil (can use half oil and half ghee)
 ½ tsp of saffron strands
 ½ cup milk
 4 cups Basmati Rice soaked for 30 minutes (rice cooker measuring cup)
 Spices for boiling rice
 6 Cardamoms
 3 Cloves
 2 Bay Leaves
 1 Bay Flower or Biryani Flower
 1 tsp Sahajeera
 ½ tsp Ginger Garlic Paste
 1 tbsp of Oil
 First Full of Salt
Method:
 Clean and cut the goat meat.
 Grind all the ingredients listed under garam masala to a fine powder.
 Mix all the ingredients of the marinade and marinate for at least 2 hour , preferably overnight in the fridge.
 Cook the meat with ½ the oil in a pressure cooker. Don’t add any water when cooking. In my cooker it takes 6-7 whistles and 5 minutes on low flame to cook. Let it cool. Once the pressure in the cooker goes away, open it and cook it until all the water evaporates. OR
 Can cook the meat on the stove top until tender. This will take about an hour. I prefer the pressure cooker to avoid the cooking odor by cooking on stove top.
 Squeeze the lime juice on the meat and mix well.
 In a pan, heat oil and fry the onions until light golden brown.
 Soak saffron in hot milk.
 In a big pot bring water to a boil, add all the spices required for boiling rice and mix well.
 Add rice and continue to cook until the rice is almost done. It takes about 7-8 minutes on my stove. Drain the rice and keep aside.
 Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
 Now its time to arrange rice and meat in layers. Grease large baking tray with oil, layer half the rice at the bottom. Sprinkle some oil, fried onions and ½ the saffron milk. Layer the rice with meat followed by a layer of remaining rice. We should have 2 layers of rice and one layer of meat. Top it off the remaining oil, fried onions and saffron milk. Cover the tray with aluminum foil.
 Bake the biryani for 10 minutes on 400 degrees F and then for 20 minutes on 350 degrees F. The total bake time is 30 minutes, 10 minutes on 400F and 20 minutes on 350 F.