Recipe: Gosht Dum Biryani

Ingredients:

1 Kg Lamb meat

600 gm Basmati Rice

100 gm Ghee

5 gm Clove

2 gm Cardamom seeds

3 gm Cinnamon

75 gm Ginger Garlic paste

4 pieces Green chilis

1 tsp Kewra water

1 gm Saffron

Salt to taste

100 gm Onion sliced

2 pc Bay leave

250 gm Curd

10 gm Red chili powder

5gm Fresh Mint leaves

5 gm Coriander leaves

2 gm cardamom power

2 gm Mace powder

20 ml Milk

 Recipe:

1 Wash the mutton properly

2 Soak the Saffron in little warm milk

3 Wash Basmati rice and soak in water for at least 1 hour

4 Boil the Basmati until three fourth done

5 Cut ginger, green chili and mint leaves into fine julienne

6 In a pan, heat the Ghee, stir fry the onion, cloves bay leaves and Cardamom, to a Golden brown colour, add the mutton cubes, ginger-garlic paste, season to taste and cook on high heat for 10 minutes. 

7 Add yogurt to the mutton as well as red chili powder and slowly cook until the meat is almost done.

8 Remove the meat from the pot and strain the gravy (Jhol)

9 Take another pot, add Kewra water, cardamom and mace powder and milk dissolved saffron and cook for few minutes more.

10 Add the cooked mutton to the flavored and seasoned jhol and the ¾ done rice to this.

11 Cover this pot with dough of bread, brush it with saffron and milk mixture and bake for 20 minutes.

12 Serve hot with salan and garlic flavored raita.

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