Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Fish Biriyani

Fish Biriyani




Ingredients

For fish masala
·         King fish - ½ kg
·         Onion - 2 big
·         Crushed Ginger & garlic - 1 tablespoon each
·         Crushed green chilli - 1 tablespoon
·         Tomato - 3 medium
·         Coriander powder - 1 tbsp
·         Curd - ¼ cup
·         Ghee/dalda - 1 tbsp
·         Oil
For marination
·         Chilli powder - 2 teaspoon
·         Pepper powder - ½ teaspoon
·         Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon
·         Ginger & garlic - 1 table spoon each
·         Small onion - 3,4
·         Fenugreek - a pinch
·         Mustard - a pinch
·         Salt
For white paste
·         Coconut - 2 tablespoon
·         Poppy seeds - ½ tablespoon
·         Cashew nuts - 1 tablespoon (soaked in water)
For rice
·         Basmati rice - 2 cups
·         water - 4 cups
·         Cardamom - 6
·         Cinnamon - 2 medium size stick
·         Clove - 6
·         Ghee - 2 tbsp
·         Lemon Juice - 1-2 tablespoon
·         Salt

Instructions
1.  Masala Preparation
2.  Grind together all the ingredients for marination into a fine paste. Marinate the cleaned fish pieces with this paste for half an hour. Grind together the ingredients for white paste & keep aside. Shallow fry the marinated fish till it is half cooked. Add 1 tablespoon ghee/dalda to this oil & saute the onion till it becomes soft. Add the crushed ginger, garlic & green chilli & saute for 3 minutes. Add coriander powder. When the oil starts appearing add the tomatoes.When the tomatoes are cooked well add ¼ cup curd. Mix well. Add the shallow fried fish pieces.Make sure that the fish pieces are covered withgravy.After 5 minutes add the white paste. When the gravy becomes thick & fish is cooked remove from fire.
3.  Rice Preparation
4.  Boil 4 cups of water with half of the whole masala ( cardamom, cloves & cinnamon ) & let it cool. Clean the rice & soak for 25 minutes & drain the water completely. Heat ghee/dalda in a pan.Fry the remaining whole masala and add rice. When the rice starts cracking add boiled water, salt & lemon juice. Cook the rice till the water is completely dried.
5.  Layering the biriyani
6.  Preheat the oven to 180 degree 10 minutes before baking the biriyani.Butter a baking dish. Spread one layer of fish masala first & a layer of rice on top of it. Repeat the same.The top layer should be of rice. You can drizzle ghee & sprinkle coriander leaves in between the layers. Spread a wet cloth over the dish while baking. Bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes. (Refer notes for stove top method) Garnish with fried onions,nuts, raisins.
        
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