Simple Way to Prepare Homemade Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani

Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani.

Hey everyone, it's Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, calcutta (kolkata) style mutton biryani. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it's fast, it tastes yummy. It's enjoyed by millions daily. Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani is something which I've loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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