Mutton Biriyani

Mutton Briyani: Selvi
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Basmati rice - 2 cups (soak for 1/2 hour) If we use jeera rice soak for an hour.
onion - 3 big size (sliced) or
small onion - 1 1/2 cup crush it in the crusher
tomato - 3 medium size chopped
pattai - 2
cloves - 4
elaichi - 3
bay leaves - 2
oil - 3 tblsp
ghee - 2 tblsp
green chilly - 1
pudhina leaves - 15
corinader leaves - 1/2 hand ful1
ginger garlic paste - 2 1/2 tblsp
soar curd - 3 tblsp
coconut milk powder - 3 tsp
bryani masala powder - 4 tsp
red chilly pdr - 1/4 tsp
salt reqd
lime juice - juice from one small lime
In a pressure pan add oil and ghee once it is hot add all the whole garam masala(cloves, pattai, elaichi, bayleaf) once it pops up, then add the onion, fry for 2 minutes, then add ginger garlic paste, stir nicely till nice smell comes out of it, then add tomatoes fry till it mashes and oil comes out of it, now add pudhina leaves, green chilly ( donot cut , add whole green chilly), bryani masala pdr, red chilly pdr fry nicely for 2 to 3 minutes, now add mutton pieces, fry till the pieces changes its colour. Now add curd, coconut milk pdr, salt for mutton and a cup of water cover and cook for 2 to 3 whistles. This depends on the muttton, if the mutton is hard we have to cook for 3 whistles otherwise one whistle is enough.

For bryani , for basmati rice 1 cup then water is 1 3/4 cups, if it is jeera rice then the water is 2 cups.

once the pressure is released, open the pan and check the water level in the gravy according to that u have to add water. wash the rice, and add the rice in the gravy , for the above measurement in the gravy u will have 2 cups of water, so left is 1 1/2 cup water we have to add in the gravy to cook the rice. once the gravy comes to boil, check salt, if it is needed add the reqd salt , close the pan and allow it to cook for one whistle switch of the gas. Once u hear the whistle sound immediately release 75% of pressure and wait for 10 minutes. now all the pressure will be released, now open the pan add the lime juice, coriander leaves and stir carefully. Now bryani is ready to eat. Can be served with onion raitha, mutton chalna, sweet patchadi.

Variation:
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1. For veg bryani, follow the same method,
Difference is instead of mutton add veg like cauliflower,potato,peas,carrot, french beans . after adding veg stir and add the masalas, then immediately we can add rice and pressure cook. No need of cooking the veg separately.
2. For meal maker bryani, same as above, instead of veg add meal maker and boiled white channa. rest is same
3. For chicken bryani, after adding chicken , bryani masala pdr - 2 tblsp instead of 4 tblsp
Redchilly pdr - 1 1/2 tsp then allow the chicken to cook (once it is half done) add rice and the rest of the receipe is same.
4. without veg, mealmaker,mutton, chicken we can make plain bryani.
If the bryani powder is ready we can make bryani fast.