Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, prawn biryani. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Prawn Biryani is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Prawn Biryani is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have prawn biryani using 38 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Prawn Biryani:
- Take for Biryani preparation:
- Take 1 cup basmati or biryani rice
- Prepare 250 gms prawn (w/o tail and skin)
- Make ready 2-3 medium onion
- Take 1 medium tomato finely chopped
- Get 2-3 green chillies
- Take 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- Prepare handful finely chopped mint and coriander (leaves)
- Prepare 2 tsp ghee
- Take 1 tsp oil
- Get 1 lemon
- Take as per taste salt
- Take 1/4 cup milk
- Make ready pinch saffron strands
- Take 5-6 cashew nuts
- Take 8-10 kismis
- Prepare for Dry masala:
- Take 2 tsp turmeric powder
- Take 1/2 tsp garam masala
- Make ready 1 tsp biryani masala
- Get 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Get 1 tsp coriander powder
- Make ready for Whole spices:
- Get 1 bay leaf
- Take 1 star anise
- Get 1 small stick of cinnamon
- Make ready 1-2 cloves
- Get 2-3 green cardamom
- Make ready 1 black cardamom
- Get 1-2 Mace
- Get 1 nutmeg
- Take for Raita preparation:
- Make ready 1/2 cup curd
- Make ready 1/4 cup water
- Make ready 1/2 tsp sugar
- Take 1-2 tsp lemon juice
- Get 1 tsp chaat masala
- Prepare to taste Salt according
Steps to make Prawn Biryani:
- First, marinate the prawn with 1 tsp salt ant 1 tsp turmeric powder, 1 lemon juice and keep aside for 15-20 minutes. Soak saffron strands in warm milk (1/4 cup) for 10 minutes. Prepare the rice, once 2/3rd cooked, dain the water and keep aside.
- Heat the pan, add 1 tsp oil. Add the chopped onion (1 medium finely sliced onion). Fry until golden brown. Keep aside.
- Now in a deep bottom vessel. Add 2 tsp ghee. Add all the whole spices and sauce for few seconds in low flame. Add finely chopped onion (2 medium sized onion). Saute for few minutes until light golden. Add ginger garlic paste. Add salt, turmeric, coriander powder, red chilli powder, and mix well. Add finely chopped tomato, mix well. Keep on low flame until the tomato pieces are soft.
- Now add little water, curd, garam masala and biryani masala. Add the marinated prawn and keep for cooking. Add cashew nuts and kismis. Once the prawns are cooked, add coriander + mint leaves (chopped), fried onion (1 tsp). Mix well and keep on low flame for few seconds.
- Now add the cooked rice layer top of it. Sprinke fried onion, coriander+mint leaves(chopped), saffron milk, 1/2 tsp ghee. Cover the lid. Seal the side of the lid with maida dough. Also put clove in the lid hole. Keep on low flame for 5-10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes, switch of the flame. But don't remove the lid. Keep it like this for another 5-10 minutes. Now unseal (remove the wheat dough) and transfer to serving bowl.
- Serve with raita.
- Raita preparation: Beat the curd to make smooth consistency. Add salt, sugar, lemon juice, water and mix well. Add chaat masala.
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