Hyderabad is known for Biryani. It is a spicy fragrant and colourful variant of  Biryani. In India the traditional style of making the Biryani by cooking the marinated raw meat with spices and then covered with rice and kept on dum until done.

Preparation time – 30 min

Cooking time – 45 min

Marinate Mutton with spices – Over night

Serves – 4

Ingredients: – For Marination

Mutton – 1 Kg

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbs

Garam masala – 1 tbs

Chili powder – 2 tsp

Turmeric – 1 tsp

Yogurt – 1 cup

Salt to taste

Lemon juice – 1 lemon

Procedure:

Wash Mutton, pat dry and add all the above ingredients mix together and marinate for over night in a refrigerator.

Ingredients: – For Preparation of Biryani

Basmathi Rice – 3 cups

Mint leaves – 1 bunch

Coriander leaves – 1 bunch

Bay leaves – 3 nos

Mace – 1 no

Cloves – 4 to 5 nos

Cinnamon  – 4 to 5 nos

Elachi – 2 nos

Saffron – 1 pinch (soaked in warm milk )

Oil – 3 tbs

Procedure :

Wash and soak Basmathi rice for 15 min.Take a deep pan, first boil the water, add 1 tbs of oil, bay leaves, cinnamon, cloves and other spices add rice, and half cook the rice and drain the water and keep a side.

Take a marinated mutton pieces, mix chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves, add 2 tbs of oil.

Now a deep pan or handi, add the marinate mutton in the bottom and add half cooked rice on top of it. Add a layer of chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves.

In a cup add warm milk and soak saffron.

Add the saffron to the pan or handi, cover the pan/ handi with a tight lid or add sticky dough to the edges and cover it with a lid. Cook for 45 min. Sprinkle rose water and garnish with fried onion and cashew nuts.

Ingredients : – For garnishing

Onion – 3 medium sized ( Sliced into thin)

Cashew nuts – 50 gms

Oil to fry.

Procedure :

Heat the pan add oil and when oil is hot add cashew nuts when it turns to brown remove it and keep a side. In the same oil add sliced onion and fry till it is brown in colour.

Hyderabadi Mutton Dum Briyani is ready to be served with tomato and onion salad raitha and boiled eggs.