Ingredients

• Basmati rice - 4 cups
• Mutton or chicken - 1 lb
• Oil or ghee - 250 ml
• Ginger - 50 gms
• Garlic - 50 gms
• Tomatoes - 3
• Big red onions - 2
• Small onion - 1/2
• Green chillies - 10
• Red chilli powder - 3 tsp
• Coriander powder - 4 tsp
• Curd - 1/2 litre
• Lemon - 1
• Mint leaves
• Coriander leaves
• Coconut - 4 tbsp (ground)
• Cloves, cardamoms, bay leaves - 5 each
• Garam masala
• Cashew nuts
• Saunf
• Salt
• Sunflower oil

How to Make Delicious Mutton Biryani

• Clean mutton and soak it in curd for 1 hour.
• Grind small onion and keep aside.
• Grind ginger and garlic together and keep aside.
• Extract lemon juice and keep aside.
• Cook rice to 3/4 level and keep aside (it should be dry).
• Take a big vessel, put sunflower oil and heat well.
• Add bay leaves, cloves, cardamoms, onions, curry leaves and saunf and stir for a while.
• Add onion paste, green chillies, mint leaves and a few coriander leaves.
• After frying for a while, add ginger garlic paste and coriander powder and stir for a while.
• Add mutton and fry for some more time.
• After 10 mins, add red chilli powder and salt.
• After 10 mins, add coconut paste.
• Let the mutton cook till the gravy is thick.
• Add lemon juice at the end and let it boil for a few minutes.