Recreate the longstanding Chennai classic, Charminar Biryani, with this detailed recipe. The dish involves spices, sautéed onions, ginger garlic paste, and mutton pieces, combined with rice for a flavorful meal.
1: Heat a vessel, add oil.
2: Add the cinnamon, green cardamom, cloves, kalpasi, star anise and let it crackle.
3: Add the sliced onion and green chilli and saute till the onion turns golden brown.
4: Add the ginger garlic paste and saute for a few seconds.
5: Add the chopped coriander and mint leaves and saute for a few seconds.
6: Add the red chilli powder and mix till combined.
7: Add the tomatoes and saute till it turns soft and mushy.
8: Add curd, mix till combined.
9: Add the washed mutton pieces, mix it with the masala for 5 minutes.
10: Add water, lemon juice, salt. Mix well and bring it to a boil.
11: Cover and simmer the mixture for 40 minutes.
12: When there are 10 minutes remaining for the mutton to cook, bring water to boil in another vessel, add salt.
13: Add the soaked and strained rice and boil it exactly for 4 minutes.
14: Reserve a cup (250 ml) of the hot rice water and strain the rice immediately.
15: Open the simmering mutton pot, add the strained rice and just mix it gently.
16: Add the reserved rice water.
17: Cover the pot and place it on a preheated tawa for 15 minutes on a low flame.
18: After 15 minutes, turn off the flame and let it rest for 10 minutes.
19: Open the pot, fluff the biryani and serve it hot.
