C'mon Let's Eat Jhinga Biryani
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 29
- Serves:
-
10-12
ingredients
- 1 kg basmati rice
- 5 tablespoons ghee
- 1⁄4 kg yogurt
- 3 tablespoons rose water
- 1⁄2 tablespoon orange food coloring
- 3 tablespoons saffron
- 8 tablespoons sugar
- 40 g pistachios
- 200 g raisins
- 40 g almonds
- 5 g cardamom powder
- 10 g cinnamon
- 1 kg onion
- 1 kg potato
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For the masala
- 35 prawns (size 16/20)
- 2 cups water
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 6 green chilies
- 5 cloves garlic
- 20 g ginger
- 2 large onions
- 10 cloves
- 1 teaspoon cumin seed
- 1⁄2 kg tomatoes
- 10 g chopped coriander leaves
- 2 teaspoons red chili powder
- 100 g sugar
- 4 hard-boiled eggs
- salt
directions
- Parboil rice and drain.
- Add ghee, curd and sugar and mix well.
- Soak saffron and orange colour separately in water.
- In order to get 3 colours of rice, divide the rice into 3 portions.
- Add saffron into one and orange colour into the second one.
- Leave the third as white rice.
- Grind all the masalas together.
- Brown the onions.
- Add the ground masala.
- Add the prawns.
- Cover with water for a minute.
- Add all the remaining ingredients.
- In a large well greased vessel, add half the orange rice followed by the prawn masala, then the saffron rice and fried potatoes and onions.
- Sprinkle some cardamom powder.
- Use up all the rice making layers from them.
- On top, sprinkle some white rice alongwith a tbsp.
- of ghee and cover.
- Let it simmer on slow flame.
- Garnish with nuts and boiled eggs before serving.
- Enjoy this memorable biryani to the fullest!
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