Chatpati Bombay Biryani

Chatpati Bombay Biryani is a delicious and classic dish of South East Asia. Pakladies.com has revealed a simple and delicious recipe of Bombay Biryani for young cooks, that they can easily make it with the simple and clear guidelines.

Ingredients:

1. Chicken or mutton – ½ kg
2. Ginger garlic paste – 2 tbsp
3. Salt – to taste
4. Onion – 3
5. Cloves – 5
6. Oil – ¾ cup
7. Black pepper – 6
8. Cinnamon sticks – 2
9. Big cardamoms – 2
10. Garam masala powder – 1 tsp
11. Red chili powder – 2 tsp
12. Fried and crushed cumin seeds – 1 tsp
13. Yogurt – 250gm
14. Rice – ½ kg
15. Green chilies – 12
16. Fresh coriander – ½ cup
17. Cumin seeds – ½ tsp
18. Black cumin seeds – ½ tsp
19. Bay leaf – 1

• Make a green paste with fresh coriander and green chilies.
• Then take a bowl, add chicken or mutton, green paste, yogurt, salt, red chili powder, fried crushed cumin seeds, ginger garlic paste and garam masala, mix well and leave for 3 to 4 hours.
• Boil rice with whole garam masala. Potato – 2 (apply orange food color and fry in 2 tbsp of oil)

Ingredients for layers:

1. Lemon – 1 cut in slices
2. Green cardamom powder – 1 tsp
3. Nutmeg, mace powder – ¼ tsp
4. Mint – ¼ bunch
5. Fresh coriander – ½ bunch
6. Tomato – 1 sliced
7. Dry plums – 6
8. Green chilies – 4
9. Fried brown onion – ¼ cup
10. Orange food color – few drops
11. Kewra water – 1 tbsp

Method:

• Take a pan, add ¾ cup oil and fry onion until turn into golden brown.
• Then take out ¼ cup onion and in rest of onion add marinated chicken or mutton, fry a little bit. Then cover and let it cook until chicken or mutton done.
• Then add fried potato, mix well. Now take a pan, spread some boiled rice, then mutton or chicken, then lemon slices, green cardamom powder, nutmeg, mace powder, soaked dry plums, fresh coriander, mint, tomato slice, and boiled rice, then on top add kewra water, orange food color and fried onion, cover and put on dum for 15 to 20 minutes.
• Serve with raita and salad.