Danda Biryani

                               Danda Biryani

Ingredients

Mutton bong (cut into big pieces) 1 kg

Cloves 6

Green cardamom 8

...Black pepper 8

Water 4 cups

Yogurt ½ cup

Salt 2 tsp

Ginger chopped 2 tbsp

Garlic chopped 1 ½ tbsp

Ingredients for Rice

Rice (soaked for 30 minutes) 750 gm

Ghee 1 cup

Mint 1 bunch

Coriander leaves ½ bunch

Green chilies 20 small ones

Yogurt 1 ½ cup

Saffron 1 tsp

Kewra water 1 tsp

Ginger Juliennes 1 tbsp

Yellow color ¼ tsp

Mace grinded ¼ tsp

White cumin whole 1 ½ tsp

Method

In a pan put 1 kg mutton bong with 4 cups water, 2 tbsp chopped ginger, 1 ½ tbsp chopped garlic, ½ cup yogurt, 6 cloves, 8 green cardamom, 8 black pepper, 2 tsp salt and cook till tender and 1 cup stock left, now shift the meat to the corner of the pan and make a hollow in the centre. Mix ¼ tsp yellow color in 1-1/2 cup yogurt and spread on the mutton pieces only, add 1 ½ tsp white cumin seeds, ¼ tsp mace powder, 20 green chilies, 1 bunch mint chopped, ½ bunch chopped coriander leaves and 1 tbsp ginger Juliennes. Now put the boiled rice in hollow portion first and then spread rice on mutton to cover the meat well, cover and simmer for 15 minutes, when steam start to come out add the ghee and water mixture 1 cup saved from the boiled rice. Then add 1 tsp crushed saffron and 1 tsp kewra mixture, simmer for 15 minutes, mix biryani well and serve.