Fish Biryani

Name: Fish Biryani
Total time: 7200 s
Yield: 5-serving
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: ½ kg King fish -; 2 Onion big -; 1 tablespoon Ginger garlic Crushed & - each; 1 tablespoon green chilli Crushed -; 3 Tomato - medium; 1 tbsp Coriander powder -; ¼ cup Curd -; 1 tbsp Ghee dalda / -; Oil; 2 teaspoons Chilli powder -; ½ teaspoon Pepper powder -; 1 teaspoon Turmeric powder -; 1 Ginger garlic & - table spoon each; 3 , 4 onion -; pinch Fenugreek - a; pinch Mustard - a; Salt; 2 tablespoons Coconut -; ½ tablespoon Poppy seeds -; 1 tablespoon Cashew nuts - (soaked in water); 2 cups Basmati rice -; 4 cups water -; 6 Cardamom -; 2 Cinnamon - medium size stick; 6 Clove -; 2 tbsps Ghee -; 1 - 2 tablespoons Lemon Juice -; Salt

Reshma Venugopal @cook_7802974

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Fish Biryani

Reshma Venugopal @cook_7802974

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Ingredients

120 mins

5-serving

½ kgKing fish -
2Onion big -
1 tablespoonGinger garlic Crushed & - each
1 tablespoongreen chilli Crushed -
3Tomato - medium
1 tbspCoriander powder -
¼ cupCurd -
1 tbspGhee dalda / -
Oil
2 teaspoonsChilli powder -
½ teaspoonPepper powder -
1 teaspoonTurmeric powder -
1Ginger garlic & - table spoon each
3 , 4onion -
pinchFenugreek - a
pinchMustard - a
Salt
2 tablespoonsCoconut -
½ tablespoonPoppy seeds -
1 tablespoonCashew nuts - (soaked in water)
2 cupsBasmati rice -
4 cupswater -
6Cardamom -
2Cinnamon - medium size stick
6Clove -
2 tbspsGhee -
1 - 2 tablespoonsLemon Juice -
Salt

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Steps

120 mins

1

Masala Preparation: 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 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 toma...
2

Rice Preparation: 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.
3

Layering the biriyani
4

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.