Spicy Dum Mushroom Biryani

We all usually do dum biryani with chicken or mutton, but doing this with mushroom was really interesting when i saw this first in sanjeev kapoor's cook book and immediately tried it and turned out to be excellent..A must try ...so please try it and u ll know how good it is!!!

Ingredients

For Rice

1 cup basmati rice

3 green cardamom

1 black cardamom

a piece of mace

1 bay leaf

4 cloves

1 " stick cinnamon

salt to taste

1 tsp oil

For the Mushroom gravy

10-12 mushroom cut into quarters

1 onion finely sliced

2 green chillies roughly chopped

1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste

1 tsp biriyani masala (any which is available)

1 tsp crushed black peppercorns

1 tsp cumin powder

1/2 cup tomato puree

1 tsp red chilli powder

1 tbsp coriander powder

1 tsp garam masala powder

1/2 cup fresh yogurt

1/2 cup skimmed milk

2 tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves

8 mint leaves finely chopped

salt to taste

3 tbsp oil or ghee

For layering

few freshly chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves

few saffron mixed with 3 tbsp milk

Method

For the Rice

For the Mushroom gravy

For the layering