Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, lamb biryani. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Lamb Biryani is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Lamb Biryani is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook lamb biryani using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lamb Biryani:
- Prepare 4 Tbs cooking oil or ghee
- Prepare 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- Take 1 inch piece ginger root, peeled and finely chopped/ grated
- Get 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
- Get 1 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Get 2 lb lean lamb, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
- Get 4 inch piece of cinnamon stick
- Get 10 cloves
- Make ready 10 black peppercorns
- Get 6-8 cardamom pods
- Get 10 fl oz yoghurt
- Make ready 16 oz basmati rice, washed,soaked in water for 1/2 hour
- Prepare 1/2 tsp saffron,soak in 2 Tbs boiling water
Instructions to make Lamb Biryani:
- Heat 2 tbs oil or ghee in a large pan or wok, add the garlic,ginger,cayenne and cumin, fry for 3-4 minutes, keep stirring. Add lamb stir to coat with spices and fry until Brown.
- Add yoghurt and 1 tsp salt, add 1/4 pint water, bring to boil, give an occasional stir.
- Reduce heat, put lid on pan, simmer until lamb is cooked and tender, approx 60 minutes.
- Rinse and drain the rice, in a separate pan, boil 3 pts water with 1 tsp salt, add the rice and fast boil for about 1 1/2 minutes, drain the rice thoroughly, put to one side.
- Preo heat oven to 180 c, 160 fan. In a large ovenproof pan put 1 Tbsp oil or ghee, place in 1/3 rd of the rice, sprinkle on 1/3 rd of saffron mix, add 1/3rd lamb.
- Continue layers, finishing with a layer of rice sprinkled with saffron mix, pour over any liquid from lamb. Cover and place in oven.
- Cook for 25 - 30 minutes until rice is cooked and liquid is absorbed. Lightly fluff up rice with a fork.
- Serve with a vegetable curry.
- You can top the rice with crispy fried onion, sultanas and or pistachio nuts.
- You can substitute chicken or cooked prawns (add prawns just before serving)for the lamb, not sure if this is traditional though.
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