Easiest Way to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani

Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani.

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a special dish, calcutta (kolkata) style mutton biryani. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It's appreciated by millions daily. It's simple, it's fast, it tastes yummy. Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani is something which I've loved my whole life. They're nice and they look fantastic.

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

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

1. {Get 4 of Boiled eggs.
2. {Prepare of Few Saffron strings.
3. {Take 1 of generous pinch of saffron.
4. {Make ready 4 tbsps of water.
5. {Prepare of For marination of mutton-.
6. {Make ready 600 grams of mutton.
7. {Prepare 1 tbsp of ginger.
8. {Prepare 1 tbsp of garlic.
9. {Prepare 1/2 tsp of Garam masala*.
10. {Make ready 1/2 tsp of Turmeric powder.
11. {Make ready 1 tsp of Chili powder.
12. {Get 1/2 tsp of Cummin/Jeera powder.
13. {Take 1/2 tsp of Coriander/ Dhania powder.
14. {Take 1 pinch of Saffron strands.
15. {Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
16. {Take 2-3 tsp of veg oil.
17. {Make ready of For Homemade Garam masala powder-.
18. {Take 5 gms of Green Cardamom.
19. {Get 5 gms of Cinnamon stick.
20. {Get 15 pieces of Cloves.
21. {Take 3 gms of Black pepper.
22. {Prepare 2 gms of White pepper.
23. {Get 1 pc of Mace/ Javitri.
24. {Prepare 2 gms of Nutmeg/ Jayfal.
25. {Take of For Potato preparation-.
26. {Prepare 350 of grams/ 4 medium sized Potatoes.
27. {Make ready 1/2 tsp of salt.
28. {Take 1/4 tsp of Turmeric.
29. {Make ready 1/4 tsp of Garam masala*.
30. {Get 2 tbsp of veg oil.
31. {Prepare 3 cups of water.
32. {Prepare of For fried onions / Barista-.
33. {Make ready 100 gms of onion thinly sliced.
34. {Prepare 3 of tsps Corn flour.
35. {Get 1/2 cup of Vegetable Oil for shallow frying.
36. {Take of For cooking the Mutton-.
37. {Make ready 600 gms of Marinated mutton.
38. {Take 6 tbsps of Vegetable oil (use the same oil used to fry the onion).
39. {Prepare 2 tbsps of ghee.
40. {Prepare 2 of Bay leaves, one black and 3 green cardamom,3 cloves.
41. {Prepare 350 gms of (gross weight) onion sliced.
42. {Prepare 1 tsp of ginger paste.
43. {Make ready 1 tsp of garlic paste.
44. {Take 1 tsp of Coriander and Cummin powder mixed.
45. {Make ready 1 tsp of Kashmiri Lal mirch powder.
46. {Prepare 5 cups of water.
47. {Prepare 1 tsp of Garam masala*.
48. {Take of For rice-.
49. {Take 350 gms of long grain Basmati rice.
50. {Make ready of as required Water enough to cook.
51. {Make ready 10 gms of whole Garam masala**.
52. {Take 1 tsp of salt.
53. {Make ready 1/2 of lemon.
54. {Prepare of Whole garam masala for cooking rice.
55. {Get 1 of Cinnamon stick.
56. {Take 1-2 of Green Cardamoms.
57. {Prepare 2-3 of Cloves.
58. {Make ready of some Black pepper and white pepper.
59. {Make ready of as required Shahi Jeera.
60. {Prepare 1-2 of Star anise.
61. {Get of as required Javitri / mace.
62. {Prepare of To assemble the Biryani for Dum.
63. {Make ready of as required Cooked mutton.
64. {Prepare 80 of % cooked rice.
65. {Take 2-3 tbsp of ghee.
66. {Prepare 3-4 of Boiled eggs.
67. {Make ready of as required Cooked potatoes.
68. {Get 1 tsp of Garam masala powder*.
69. {Make ready of Little dried rose water.
70. {Take of some Fried onions.
71. {Get of few Soaked saffron strings.
72. {Make ready 1.5 tbsp of Kewra water.
73. {Take 1.5 tbsp of Rose water.
74. {Get 2-3 drops of Meetha Ithar.

Steps 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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