Hyderabadi prawn biryani / prawn dum biriyani
Ingredients
4
Preparation
Preparation30 min
Cook time25 min
- Marinate the shrimp with the given items for minimum half an hour or do it overnite. This ensures shimp to be juicy when it's cooked.
- Take a kadai and add both ghee and oil together. Add the cinnamon,cloves,cardamom once the ghee melts and fry for few minutes.
- Add the sliced onions and cook well. at this point add the salt to make the onions leaves moisture and cook fast.
- Followed by GG paste and saute well. Dump in the tomatoes and cook until the tomatoes r totally disintegrated.
- Drop in the mint and cilantro leaves as well. Cook this mixture until ur shrimp gets almost cooked.
- Soak the rice for 10 minutes. By the time take a big pot /bowl and fill it with 3/4 of water and add oil and all the garam masalas.
- Give it a boil. Add the rice slowly and cook for exactly 5 minutes.
- Take the biriyani pot and add half the shrimp masala and then add the half quantity of hot steaming rice straight after draining.
- Top the rice with another layer of the reamaining shrimp mixture and then followed by remaining hot rice.
- Dilute the saffron colour with little warm milk /water and drizzle on the top of the rice. Cover the vessel with a cotton cloth and seal it. Close the lid very tightly.
- Heat a dosa pan and place the biriyani pot on top and cook for 15 minutes. Make sure no steam escapes while cooking.
- Remove the lid and by using the fork mix the rice gently without breaking it and have it.
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