Sindhi biryani recipe

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  • Cuisine: Pakistani

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.


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23 Mar 2012 07:45 AEST
Rob Garcia
New Mexico
I like it.
Good Recipe.
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29 Jul 2011 04:59 AEST
Sonia
Mumbai India
Yummmmmy
WOW!!! I am dying to try this recipe. Its a Shahi Biryani. Delicious....
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19 Jul 2011 11:18 AEST
Amit Kewlani
mumbai, India
Loooooooooovely
Shaan saan chao sindhi aahiyaan
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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.
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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!!!!!!!.
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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
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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
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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.
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