Pakistani Cuisine

Sindhi biryani

Cuisine: Pakistani Created by Sonia Kayani

Ingredients

1kg goat meat, boneless and cut into large cubes
500g basmati rice
100g natural yoghurt
3 medium tomatoes, cut into thin wedges
Vegetable oil
3 medium potatoes, boiled until tender and cut in half
3 medium onions, thinly sliced
3 tbsp fresh ginger, minced
1 tbsp garlic, minced
10 cloves
5-6 green cardamom pods plus 8 to cook rice
4-5 cinnamon quills
1 tablespoon dried red chilli powder
½ tbsp turmeric
½ tbsp paprika
5 bay leaves
1 tbsp coriander powder
2 heaped tsp cumin powder
2 tsp cumin seeds
8 to 10 dried plums
1 tbsp salt
8 -10 black peppercorns, ground
2-3 black cardamom pods
3 long green chillies, whole, plus 1 finely sliced
1 bunch coriander, chopped
1 bunch mint, chopped
1 tbsp saffron, soaked briefly in milk
25g each of sultanas, slivered almonds, walnuts and cashew nuts
Fried onion rings, to garnish

Preparation

Fry onions in a little vegetable oil until golden brown and translucent.

Add goat and stir for a few minutes.

Add ginger and garlic.

Add yoghurt and all dried spices except saffron, mixing well to combine.

Add 1 cup water, green chillies and salt.

Cover and simmer for 45 minutes.

Soak rice for half an hour, drain and cook in boiling water with extra green cardamom pods. Drain when cooked and split into two lots.

Add saffron to one half of the rice and stir through to distribute saffron evenly.

Combine tomatoes, mint, coriander, and sliced green chilli.

Add 1/3 of the tomato mixture to the goat mixture.

Cover and cook for a further 5 to 10 minutes.

On a large serving platter, spoon out ½ the plain rice and top with the goat curry.

Spoon over ½ the saffron rice and sprinkle with half the remaining tomato, mint and green chilli mixture.

Add a layer of the boiled potatoes, then another layer of plain rice, saffron rice and finally onion rings.

Top with remaining tomato, mint and green chilli mixture, then sprinkle over sultanas, almonds, walnuts and cashews.

Serve with cachumbar, made from red onions, tomatoes, vinegar and shredded lettuce and raita, made from yoghurt, mint, cumin and salt.

Pakistani Restaurants

Displaying 10 of 31 Pakistani Restaurants.

Restaurant Suburb
1. Faheem's Fast Food Enmore
2. Tandoori Hut Enmore
3. Laziza House Melba
4. Taj Agra Indian Restaurant Dickson
5. Kari Guru Fitzroy North
6. Bedi's Indian Restaurant South Melbourne
7. Curry Vault Indian Restaurant & Bar Melbourne
8. The Cage St Kilda
9. Jazzi's Indian & Continental Restaurant South Hurstville
10. Bundu Khan Crows Nest
   
23 Mar 2012 07:45 AEST
Rob Garcia
New Mexico
I like it.
Good Recipe.
29 Jul 2011 04:59 AEST
Sonia
Mumbai India
Yummmmmy
WOW!!! I am dying to try this recipe. Its a Shahi Biryani. Delicious....
19 Jul 2011 11:18 AEST
Amit Kewlani
mumbai, India
Loooooooooovely
Shaan saan chao sindhi aahiyaan
03 May 2011 12:28 AEST
Kevin John Jr
Virginia, USA
WOW
WOW, what a dish. I would love to have this with a cool beer.
05 Apr 2011 05:40 AEST
aysha
khi
kooooooool
it koooool dish and they Sonia Kayani is a excellant cook. When I saw the video on youtube , I was wishing to just take the food out and eat it , so I tried to make it but I couldn't make it like Sonia Kayani did. She's the best ever!!!!!!!.
05 Apr 2011 05:38 AEST
danial
sedney
to quick to cook
well it very excelent flavour sonia make teach anothe dish like this but thanks any
18 Feb 2011 08:28 AEST
Mardi
Glebe
Fantastic continued
Oh also I used brown rice instead of basmati and added extra yogurt on top to serve. Delicious
18 Feb 2011 08:26 AEST
Mardi
Glebe
Fantastic
I made this tonight and it was fantastic. I didn't have all the ingredients so I made a couple of changes. Skipped the mint, replaced the prunes with sultanas, used ground ginger instead of fresh, used tumeric to dye the rice instead of saffron. I also only used 1/3 the quantity of ingredients, and there was still enough for 4-5 people. It was so good. not that hard once you assembled everything. it looked great and was so full of flavour. I will definately make it again.
19 Jan 2011 09:23 AEST
JSoza
USA
Spectacular!
This dish turned out far more amazing than I ever anticipated!!! It was absolutely fabulous! And such a presentation! Oh! I used some lamb as well as beef meat (since goat is very hard to come by where I live). Also, I used ghee for extra richness/turmuric powder for the rice (because I didn't have saffron)/and dried dates instead of prunes because I couldn't find any. The dish was wonderful. I served it with freshly made flat breads, tomato/cucumber salad, and the yoghurt mint sauce...
10 Dec 2010 10:54 AEST
Sara
USA
OneTribeGourmet
I absolutely loved this Byriani recipe! Bravo!
08 Oct 2010 07:04 AEST
sleekie
SYDNEY
Outstani Biryani !
I used what I only had in the pantry trick - HALVED THE RECIPE eg spices + herbs etc - replaced goat with 650g chopped chicken breast - used the same quantity of rice cooked in microwave - some other modifications - 1 teaspoon chilli powder - 200g yoghurt - 6 tomatoes - substituted 2 tablespoons tamarind pulp concentrate for dried plums - substitute turmeric for saffron to colour the rice - eliminated the potatoes - used a fruit and nut nibble mix on top - missed the fried onions - serves 5 - 6
02 Jul 2010 10:41 AEST
Neil
Wagga Wagga
Very Tasty Dish
I stuck to the recipe but doubled the yoghurt. The curry base was very rich and full flavoured with a nice touch of pungency.
29 Jun 2010 12:35 AEST
Melissa Bazley
Berowra Heights
DELICIOUS & NUTRITIOUS
wow...this is amazing. :) I used beef as I couldn't get goat or good lamb. Will try it with lamb next time. I used less chilli powder in mine, only half a tbsp. I used hot green chillies for the fresh chillies. It was very fiery...but we loved it. We had it with natural yoghurt on top as well. Highly recommend it and soooo healthy too.
21 Jun 2010 05:36 AEST
lush_v
sydney
vegie friendly
Brilliant recipe - i made it vegan style using organic brown lentils and tofu instead of the goat, had to add more water as i can't use yoghurt but the lentils thicken the dish very well. Packed with lots of vegies, my family loved it especially my toddler!
16 May 2010 09:48 AEST
James
Seymour,Victoria
Exsquisite
I had to use lamb but this is such a crowd pleaser...delicious
08 Dec 2009 02:30 AEST
Priscilla
Adelaide
Feeding an army
I have cooked lots of different biriyani's over the years but this would have to be the tastiest. The family loved it & there was enough left over for everyone to take home. I used lamb instead of goat & it was so tender.
15 Nov 2009 04:29 AEST
ICe
SEAsia
Brilliant biryani!
Caught the program recently and must admit this is one delicious looking biryani if ever I saw one! The layering of ingredients is incredible!
06 Aug 2009 11:07 AEST
Alfie
Perth
Delicious!
Tried this dish a few weeks ago, and it was so yummy! Love the spice. Great recipe.
28 Jun 2009 12:27 AEST
Dan Sander
MO, USA
Great receipe
Always like spicy food and this recipe is just what I would like to try this week. Thanks to the Chef.
24 Jun 2009 01:08 AEST
Hajira
usa
Brilliant
I just adored the food , Sonia Kayani is a excellant cook. When I saw the video on youtube , I was wishing to just take the food out and eat it , so I tried to make it but I couldn't make it like Sonia Kayani did. She's the best ever!!!!!!!.
03 Jun 2009 04:29 AEST
angela metcalfe
Wagg Wagga
biryani
Looks like a great recipe, but 1 tbsp of saffron looks wrong. it would make it v expensive.
15 May 2009 11:08 AEST
kuldip
sydney
easy peasy
gave it a try and turned out wonderful. thanks guys
14 May 2009 05:51 AEST
sonia
victoria
yummy biriyani
the igredients does'nt say anything about the potatoes whether they should be boiled or not?
13 Nov 2008 03:30 AEST
chris
uk
love it
i always wanted to know how to make Biryani as my mates do come over n cook n luck for them this my treat for them. really easy to make. And ofcourse i over cooked the rice. but the whole thing was absolutely brilliant
   

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