CHETTINAD MUTTON BIRYANI RECIPE

Chettinad Mutton Biryani Recipe Preparation Time 10 Minutes Cooking Time 30 Minutes Difficulty Average Recipe Type Non Veg. Serves Serves 2 470 cal per serving

Ingredients: • 1 kilo Pulav Rice (Basmati) • 1 kilo Meat (mutton) • 4 Onions • 3 Garlic (full ones) • 2 inch (50 gms) Ginger (piece) • 4 Tomatoes • 1 cup Curd • 4 Green Chillies • 1 Inch Cinnamon (piece) • 4 Cloves • 4 Cardamoms • 3 tbsp Chili powder • 1 bunch Coriander Leaves • 1 bunch Mint Leaves (Pudina) • 1 tsp Kesari Powder (Orange Kesari) • 1/2 Cup Oil or Ghee • 3 tbsp Lime Juice • Salt to taste How to make Chettinad Mutton Biryani: • Grind garlic, onion, and ginger separately. • Cut onions and tomatoes. • Clean meat and cut into pieces. • Soak rice. • Heat oil in a heavy bottom vessel • Add cinnamon, cardamom, cloves. • Add onions, sauté till the onions turn brown in colour. • Add garlic and a little coriander leaves, fry it. • Add green chillies, mint leaves, curd, tomatoes, chilly powder, and ground ginger and fry well. • Add the meat to it and fry well. • Add 2 glasses of water and cook the meat. • Add remaining coriander, mint leaves and lime juice, cover and cook. • Cook the soaked Basmati rice for 10 minutes. • Take a vessel, put one layer of meat, then one layer of cooked rice. • Repeat till all the rice is layered with the meat gravy. • Mix saffron in a little milk, and Kesari powder and pour on the rice evenly. • Cover put on low fire and put burning charcoal on top. Suggestions: serve it hot