Prawn Biriyani

Chemmen Biriyani/Prawn Biriyani

Ingredients

For rice 

• Basmati rice - 3 cups
• Water -  4.5 cups
• Onion sliced - 1/2 cup
• Cinnamon - 1 stick
• Cardamom - 5
• Clove - 4
• Lemon juice - 2 tspn
• Ghee - 1/4 cup
• Salt 

For masala 

• Prawns - 1/2 kg
• Chilly powder - 2 tspn
• Turmeric powder- 1/4 tspn
• Coriander powder - 1 tspn
• Garam masala powder - 1 tspn
• Onion sliced - 3 big
• Tomato chopped - 1 big
• Coriander leaves chopped - 1/2 cup
• Mint leaves chopped - 1/2 cup
• Ginger - 2' piece
• Garlic - 8-10 cloves
• Green chilly - 2
• Salt

To garnish 

• Fried cashews- 10 
• Fried raisins - 10
• Ghee - 1 tspn 
• Coriander leaves chopped - 1/2 cup
• Mint leaves - few 

Method

Rice 

• Wash and soak basmati rice for 20 minutes.Drain it and keep aside.
• Heat a pressure cooker with ghee.
• Add cinnamon cloves and cardamom.Fry it for few seconds.Now add sliced onion.
• Saute it well 
• Add drained rice.

• Fry it for few seconds and add 4.5 cups of water.
• Now add lemon juice and salt.Mix it well and close the cooker .
• Keep the cooker in high flame for one whistle.Switch off the flame and when the pressure subsides open it.

Masala

• Marinate the cleaned prawns with turmeric powder salt and chilly powder.Keep it in refrigerator 30 minutes

• Now heat a pan with oil.Add marinated prawns and fry it.Drain it and keep aside.

• To the same pan add sliced onion and saute it well.Add salt to

• Now add chopped tomato and saute it again

• Make a paste of ginger garlic and green chilly and add it in to the sauteed onion

• Mix it well and saute it till it leaves the raw smell.

• Now add garam masala and coriander powder to it.Mix it well

• Add fried prawns to it.Mix it well.

• Add 1/4 cups of water to the masala and cook it in low flame for few minutes.

• Add chopped coriander and mint leaves.
• Check for salt.Keep it aside.

How to make dum

• This time I ued my pressure cooker to dum 
• Grease your cooker with ghee
• Add one layer of prawn masala
• Next add one layer of rice
• Now add chopped coriander and mint leaves,fried cashew and kismis and finally fried onion too
• Sprinkle some garam masala too
• Repeat the process for remaining rice and prawn masala.
• Finally on the top add some mint leaves too
• Simmer the stove and dum it for 2 minutes.
•  Prawn biriyani is ready