Lakhnavi Biryani

Ingredients:

Mutton - 1Kg
Basmati rice
Onions - 2
Ginger Garlic - 50g
Chili powder - 1 tea spoon
Curd - 1Cup
Milk Cream - 50g
Clove - 5
Elachi / Cardamon - 5
Badam - 50g
Dalchina chekka / cinnamon - 2 inch piece
Salt - According to taste
Saffron - 1 tea spoon
Rose water - 1 tea spoon

Preparation of Lakhnavi Biryani :

1. Wash mutton pieces thoroughly with water.
2. Chop onion vertically and finely.
3. Grind ginger garlic finely and take its juice.
4. Now add elachi / cardamon, clove, dalchina chekka and grind them into fine powder.
5. Wash basmati rice thoroughly and let soak for an hour.
6. Now place a wide bowl on the stove.
7. Add ghee upto half of the bowl.
8. Then add chopped onions and fry them finely.
9. Then remove fried onions from  the bowl.
10. Now add chopped badam, mutton pieces, ginger garlic juice, chili powder, salt, masala powder and curd.
11. Mix them finely.
12. When the mutton pieces started cooking then add 4 cups of water in it.
13. Then reduce the flame.
14. When the mutton completely boiled then remove water from the bowl.
15. Now place a pan on the stove and apply ghee to it.
16. Now fry mutton pieces in the pan.
17. Now take those fried mutton pieces in a bowl and place it aside.
18. Then add remaining ghee in the pan.
19. Now add washed rice in it.
20. Let it boil for 5 minutes.
21. Then take half rice from the pan.
22. Then add mutton on it.
23. Now spread rice on the mutton.
24. Now mix saffron and rose water.
25. Sprinkle this mixture on the rice.
26. Then add the mutton boiled water in it and close the bowl with a lid.
27. Let it cook for 30 minutes in simmy flame.
29. Therefore, Lakhnavi Biryani is ready.