Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, prawn biryani. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Prawn Biryani is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Prawn Biryani is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook prawn biryani using 38 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Prawn Biryani:
- Prepare for Biryani preparation:
- Prepare 1 cup basmati or biryani rice
- Make ready 250 gms prawn (w/o tail and skin)
- Get 2-3 medium onion
- Make ready 1 medium tomato finely chopped
- Make ready 2-3 green chillies
- Make ready 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- Prepare handful finely chopped mint and coriander (leaves)
- Prepare 2 tsp ghee
- Get 1 tsp oil
- Take 1 lemon
- Get as per taste salt
- Get 1/4 cup milk
- Prepare pinch saffron strands
- Get 5-6 cashew nuts
- Prepare 8-10 kismis
- Make ready for Dry masala:
- Take 2 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp garam masala
- Take 1 tsp biryani masala
- Take 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Get 1 tsp coriander powder
- Get for Whole spices:
- Get 1 bay leaf
- Get 1 star anise
- Make ready 1 small stick of cinnamon
- Prepare 1-2 cloves
- Take 2-3 green cardamom
- Make ready 1 black cardamom
- Make ready 1-2 Mace
- Make ready 1 nutmeg
- Take for Raita preparation:
- Take 1/2 cup curd
- Take 1/4 cup water
- Get 1/2 tsp sugar
- Get 1-2 tsp lemon juice
- Prepare 1 tsp chaat masala
- Get 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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