MUTTON BIRIYANI

INGREDIENTS ;

Biriyanii rice - 1/2 kg
Mutton - 1/2 kg(cleaned and cut into medium  pieces)

Onion sliced - 250 g
Tomato sliced - 100 gm
Green chillies - 8 nos
Ginger paste - 1 tbsp
Garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Pepper powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Cashewnuts - 1 tbs

Raisins  - 1/2 tbsp
Cinnamon -  a small piece
Cloves- 4 nos
Cardamom(Elakka) - 4 nos
Curd - 1 tbsp
Fennel - 1/2 tsp
Garam masala - a pinch
Mint leaves- 1 tbsp
Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Coconut oil - 2  tbsp
Salt - As reqd

PREPARATION Clean rice and Keep aside.Heat oil in a heavy bottom pan or a kadai. Add 1/4 of the sliced onions, cashew nuts, raisins and fry till golden brown. Keep aside. Heat up the remaining oil.Season fennel.Add rest of the sliced onions  and fry, till it becomes soft. Add ground pastes,  tomatoes, , turmeric powder, pepper powder, curd,  and saute till the oil starts to separate.  Then add mutton and cook, till the mutton is 3/4th cooked.Add enough salt and a pinch of garam masala .  Cook the rice along with all spices and salt, till it is 3/4th done. Grease a vessel with little ghee.Spread 1/2 of the mutton masala and place 1/2 of rice over it. Pour 2 tbspn of ghee on top of it and sprinkle some roasted onion , nuts and raisins . Spread the remaining masala and top it with rice followed by ghee and fried onion , nuts and raisins . Close it with a air tight lid and put Mutton biryani in dum for 10 - 15 min  Serve mutton biryani hot with putheena chammanthi and pickle .