Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Perfect Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani

Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani.

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, calcutta (kolkata) style mutton biryani. It is one of my favorites. This time, I'm gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It's easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani is something that I've loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook calcutta (kolkata) style mutton biryani using 74 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani:

1. {Prepare of Boiled eggs.
2. {Prepare of Few Saffron strings.
3. {Prepare of generous pinch of saffron.
4. {Get of water.
5. {Get of For marination of mutton-.
6. {Prepare of mutton.
7. {Take of ginger.
8. {Take of garlic.
9. {Get of Garam masala*.
10. {Make ready of Turmeric powder.
11. {Prepare of Chili powder.
12. {Prepare of Cummin/Jeera powder.
13. {Prepare of Coriander/ Dhania powder.
14. {Prepare of Saffron strands.
15. {Take of salt.
16. {Make ready of veg oil.
17. {Take of For Homemade Garam masala powder-.
18. {Make ready of Green Cardamom.
19. {Get of Cinnamon stick.
20. {Get of Cloves.
21. {Get of Black pepper.
22. {Get of White pepper.
23. {Get of Mace/ Javitri.
24. {Get of Nutmeg/ Jayfal.
25. {Get of For Potato preparation-.
26. {Prepare of grams/ 4 medium sized Potatoes.
27. {Take of salt.
28. {Make ready of Turmeric.
29. {Make ready of Garam masala*.
30. {Prepare of veg oil.
31. {Take of water.
32. {Prepare of For fried onions / Barista-.
33. {Take of onion thinly sliced.
34. {Get of tsps Corn flour.
35. {Prepare of Vegetable Oil for shallow frying.
36. {Take of For cooking the Mutton-.
37. {Prepare of Marinated mutton.
38. {Prepare of Vegetable oil (use the same oil used to fry the onion).
39. {Take of ghee.
40. {Take of Bay leaves, one black and 3 green cardamom,3 cloves.
41. {Get of (gross weight) onion sliced.
42. {Prepare of ginger paste.
43. {Prepare of garlic paste.
44. {Get of Coriander and Cummin powder mixed.
45. {Get of Kashmiri Lal mirch powder.
46. {Get of water.
47. {Prepare of Garam masala*.
48. {Take of For rice-.
49. {Get of long grain Basmati rice.
50. {Get of as required Water enough to cook.
51. {Take of whole Garam masala**.
52. {Make ready of salt.
53. {Prepare of lemon.
54. {Get of Whole garam masala for cooking rice.
55. {Prepare of Cinnamon stick.
56. {Prepare of Green Cardamoms.
57. {Take of Cloves.
58. {Prepare of some Black pepper and white pepper.
59. {Prepare of as required Shahi Jeera.
60. {Take of Star anise.
61. {Prepare of as required Javitri / mace.
62. {Prepare of To assemble the Biryani for Dum.
63. {Get of as required Cooked mutton.
64. {Take of % cooked rice.
65. {Take of ghee.
66. {Make ready of Boiled eggs.
67. {Make ready of as required Cooked potatoes.
68. {Get of Garam masala powder*.
69. {Make ready of Little dried rose water.
70. {Prepare of some Fried onions.
71. {Prepare of few Soaked saffron strings.
72. {Take of Kewra water.
73. {Take of Rose water.
74. {Take of Meetha Ithar.

Instructions to make Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani:

1. Wash the mutton and add all the ingredients mentioned in the marination list, mix well and cover and keep it in the fridge overnight or for at least few hours..
2. For Homemade Garam masala powder, grind all the listed whole garam masalas in the mixer grinder and keep it an air tight container till you use.(I don't dry roast it)..
3. Soak the saffron. Boil the eggs and peel it when once cooled. I soaked saffron for almost 3 hours for its lovely color and aroma..
4. Peel the potatoes and half it add the salt, turmeric, garam masala powder, veg oil and water and boil them covered for 30 minutes and open for 5-10 minutes till all the water evaporates and you are left with the oil only....fry the potatoes in that oil..
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7. For the fried onion - Peel and thinly slice the onions, separate it and add cornflour. In the meantime, heat the veg oil in a kadai and add it in two parts to fry....fry it till the onion slices are golden brown and crispy and then keep it on a kitchen tissue paper to absorb the extra oil if any. It hardly takes 10 mins to fry all the sliced onions..
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10. To cook the mutton, use the same oil in which you had fried the onions,add the ghee also into it and heat it. Once heated add the bay leaves, green cardamom, cloves and black cardamom..
11. Once the whole garam masala crackles, add the onion and cook for almost 15 minutes till it starts to brown..
12. Then add the marinated Mutton and saute/bhunno it for 15 minutes or so, add the ginger, garlic,chilli powder,coriander & Cummin powder, salt in between..
13. Then add 5 cups water (rinse the kadai in which the potatoes were cooked and add into the mutton) and cook the mutton for an hour or till it is cooked (it depends on the mutton piece size and cooking time of mutton varies from places to places) at the end add garam masala powder. The salt should be more in taste than usual time as the rice will absorb some while giving dum..
14. Cook till the the oil seperates from the gravy and Mutton is well cooked..
15. In the mean time, wash and soak the rice for at least 30 minutes or so....get the whole garam masala as mentioned..
16. Add whole garam masala and salt to the water and let it come to boil. Once the soaking time of rice finishes add it to the boiling water and cook for 5 minutes and add lemon juice to it and cook for another 3 minutes or so till the rice is 80%done..
17. Drain the rice water and keep the rice ready for assembling..
18. Bring everything and keep nearby to assemble for Dum - cooked rice, mutton, fried onions, ghee, rose water, Kewra water, garam masala powder, dried rose, soaked saffron, cooked potato and boiled eggs..
19. Take a thick bottom pot. Apply ghee at the bottom, put a layer of rice at the bottom, mutton, generous pinch of garam masala, fried onions and a about a tablespoon of ghee. Then another layer of rice, potatoes and meat along with gravy, garam masala, ghee, fried onion and then again a third layer of rice with egg, garam masala, ghee, saffron with soaked water,rose water, kewra water, mitha Ithar(if using)..
20. Cover the pot with aluminium foil and then the lid so that the steam doesn't escape and the biryani gets a good dum for 10 minutes on high flame (I use a worn out preheated tawa at the bottom to avoid the rice from burning). Then put off the flame and let it rest for another 20 minutes or so..
21. Your Biryani is ready to be served. Serve it with ghol(curd preparation), raita or Lachcha pyaz and firni for dessert. Bon Appetit!!!!.

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