Biryani can be made with mutton, chicken, fish and even prawns. Here is an easy DUM biryani with prawns, which tastes even better the next day by Shabana Akbany
Ingredients:
- Rice 1/2 kg
- Prawns 1/2 kg
- Oil 1/2 cup
- Curd 1 cup
- Onions —- fried and brown 1 cup
- Milk 1/4 cup
- Ginger / garlic paste 2 tsp
- Tomatoes finely chopped 2 – 3
- Yellow color
- Salt to taste
- Green chilies chopped 6
- Black zeera 1 tsp
- Choti Elaichi 5 -6
- Coconut milk 1 cup
- Chilly powder 2 tsp
- ALL SPICE MASALA — 1 tsp
- KEWRA ESSENCE about 10 drops
Hara Masala
1 tsp ginger / garlic paste and 2 – 3 green chillies ground
Method :
- Soak the rice in water and keep aside.
- Clean and wash the prawns and keep aside. Add coconut milk to the prawns. Heat oil, add ginger / garlic paste,
- After a few minutes of continuously stirring, add fried onions, haldi, salt, and chilly powder. Cook for 5 minutes, on low flame, add in chopped tomatoes and cook till tender. Add in the curd and cook for few minutes.
- Now add in the prawns with coconut milk and cook on very high flames till prawns are tender and mixture is dry.
- In a pan, put the soaked rice with water, 1 tsp black zeera, salt and a few cloves.Cook till the rice is 1/4 done. Drain and keep aside.
- In another pan, {grease the bottom with a little ghee}, add a layer of rice, then prawn mixture, and again a layer of rice,{RICE SHOULD BE THE TOP LAYER}
- Sprinkle all spice masala and a little saffron on prawn mixture.
- Put green chilies in between layers, on the top layer, sprinkle the kewra essence.
- Immediately close with a tight lid and give DUM FOR 15 MINUTES.
by Shabana Akbany
