FISH BRIYANI

Fish Biriyani

Ingredients

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-as required

For marination

• Chilli powder - 2 teaspoon
• Pepper powder - ½ teaspoon
• Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon
• Ginger & garlic - 1 table spoon each
• Small onion – 3-4
• Salt-as required

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
• Chopped coriander leaves-few
• Ghee/dalda - 1 tbsp
• Oil-for frying(Fish)

For white paste

• Coconut - 2 tablespoon
• Poppy seeds - ½ tablespoon
• Cashew nuts - 1 tablespoon (soaked in water)

For Layering

• Fried onion-1 big
• Fried nuts and raisins-few
• Chopped coriander leaves –few
• Chopped mint leaves-few
• Garam masala powder-2tsp

Method

STEP-1

.Grind together the ingredients for white paste & keep aside.

STEP-2

.Grind together all the ingredients for marination into a fine paste. Marinate the cleaned fish pieces with this paste for ½ an hour.

STEP-3

.Shallow fry the marinated fish in oil till it is half cooked.

STEP-4

.Add 1 tablespoon ghee to this oil and sauté the onion till it becomes soft.

.Add the crushed ginger, garlic and green chilli and sauté for 3 minutes.

STEP-5

.Add 1 teaspoon coriander powder. When the oil starts appearing add the tomatoes.

STEP-6

.When the tomatoes are cooked well add ¼ cup curd and chopped coriander leaves. Mix well. Add the shallow fried fish pieces. Make sure that the fish pieces are covered with gravy.

STEP-7

.After 5 minutes add the white paste. When the gravy becomes thick & fish is cooked remove from fire.

STEP-8

.Heat 1 tablespoon ghee in a pan and add the whole masala (cardamom, cloves & cinnamon). Add the washed rice.

.When the rice starts cracking add 4 cups of boiling water, salt and lemon juice. Cook the rice till the water is completely dried.

STEP-9

.Layer the rice and masala in a greased heavy bottomed vessel/non stick pan. Spread one layer of fish masala first & a layer of rice on top of it, then spread chopped coriander ,mint leaves, fried nuts, raisins, garam masala powder and fried onion.

.Repeat the same.

STEP-10

.Close it with a tight lid.

.Reduce the heat to the lowest flame and cook for 20-25 minutes. (Keep the heat at the lowest flame throughout, otherwise it might get burnt.). Also place a pan of boiling water on top of the biriyani vessel at the same time.

.Serve the biriyani with curd,coriander chammanthi and pappad.

FISH BIRIYANI