Easy Mutton Dum Biryani Recipe | Lamb Biryani Recipe
- Total time
- 70 min
- Serves
- 6
- Cuisine
- Indian

Ingredients
- 250 grams Basmati Rice
- 5 tblspn Oil / Ghee
- 2 large sliced thinly Onions
- 5 to 6 Green Chillies
- 1 tblspn Ginger Garlic Paste
- 1/2 cup chopped Mint Leaves
- 1/2 cup chopped Coriander Leaves
- a pinch Saffron
- a pinch Yellow Food Colour (optional)
- 3 tblspn Warm Milk
For Mutton
- 250 grams Mutton
- 1 cup Water
- 1/2 cup Curd / Yogurt
- Salt to taste
- 2 to 3 Green Chillies
Whole Spices
- 1 tsp Fennel Seeds / Sombu / Saunf
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam
- 2 cm piece Cinnamon / Pattai
- 3 Cardamom / Yelakai
- 3 Cloves / Krambu
- 1 Bay Leaf
- 1 piece Black Stone Flower / Kal Paasi
- 1 Star Anise
Steps
- 1
Take mutton and all the ingredients given for cooking mutton in a pressure cooker and cook for 5 whistle. Simmer for 10 mins. Turn off the heat and let the steam go all by itself. Open the cooker and check whether the mutton is done. Now set aside.
- 2
Take saffron and milk in a bowl and let it steep. If it didn't get good colour, add little yellow food colour.
- 3
Wash and soak rice for 30 mins. Drain it and cook by this method. Drain and set aside.
- 4
Now heat oil or ghee in a kadai. Add in whole spices and let them sizzle for 1 mins.
- 5
Add in onions, salt and chillies. Cook till it gets golden brown.
- 6
Add in ginger garlic paste and saute for a min till raw smell leaves from it.
- 7
Now drain the cooked mutton and add the mutton pieces alone in the kadai. Saute it for 5 to 8 mins till it gets nice colour.
- 8
Now add in the drained stock and reduce it till it gets thick.
- 9
Add in mint and coriander leaves reserve little for topping.
- 10
Now lay the cooked rice and top with the coriander and mint leaves, pour the saffron milk and cover with a tight lid.
- 11
Place this kadai over a heavy bottom tawa and put the flame to the lowest as possible.
- 12
Cook on dum for 15 mins. Turn off the heat and let it stay for 10 mins.
- 13
Open the lid and give a gentle mix.
- 14
Serve
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