2013/08/20

HYDERABAD FISH BIRIYANI




INGREDIENTS :

 Fish -  1/2 kg 
Curd - 1/2 cup
Basmathi Rice - 2 cups
Onions - 2 medium sized
Green Chillies  4 nos
Mint leaves - 1 handful
Coriander leaves -
 1 handful
Tomatoes - 2
Red Chili powder -1 tsp

Turmeric powder -1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil 
Ghee 
Whole Garam Masala -1/2 tsp(Cloves - 3 , Cinnamon sticks - 4 , Biriyani leaves - 2, Star anasi - 3 , Elachi - 2)
Garam Masala powder -1/2 tsp

Lemon Juice - 1 tsp


METHOD OF PREPARATION :

1.Wash the rice and cook in a heavy vessel / electric rice cooker with 3.5 cups of water and little salt. 
2.Take cleaned fish and marinate with yogurt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, powered garam masala, little salt. 

3.Heat oil/ghee in a pan .Saute whole garam masala and then add finely sliced onions till brown and tender . Followed by thinly sliced tomatoes and saute till skinny .Followed by adding green chillies, mint and coriander leaves for 2 mins on medium flame  .Add Chilli powder , Turmeric , salt and Garam masala powder.
4.Meanwhile , slightly fry fish in little oil . Then , add fish pieces to the onion masala and cook for few minutes .
5.Finally , mix fish masala with the rice and slowly stir it up  .Cook till done .

Serve with Raitha / Mint chutney  .

15 comments:

Ruxana Gafoor said...

fish biriyani looks delicious

Unknown said...

perfect biriyani with nice flavor.

Chitra said...

Nice , hope it tasted great !

Hamaree Rasoi said...

Delicious and inviting fish biriyani. This one I had left out. Your recipe is definitely a way to try.
Deepa

Rumana Rawat said...

Very delicious looking briyani...

Jayanthy Kumaran said...

looks tasty n yummm
Tasty Appetite

Nilu A said...

Wow! Fish biryani looks really good Shama.. Thanks for sharing dear :-)

Priya Anandakumar said...

Lovely biryani Shama...

Shobha said...

Love any biriyani ..

Amila said...

super delicious and inviting!

Rafeeda AR said...

Thumbs up 4 dat delicious platter of fish biriyani...

Unknown said...

Looks so delicious and inviting fish biriyani.

Swathi said...

Delicious fish biriyani Shamma.

Priya Suresh said...

Wonderful platter,makes me hungry.

unknown said...

Thanks for sharing this useful information,regards
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