Recipe for Hyderabadi Nizam Biryani
- To basmati rice, add salt, cinnamon stick, add required water and cook it.
- Once it is cooked strain all the water.
- Now add ghee and mix it well.
- Make the rice into 3 equal parts and keep them in 3 different bowls.
- In one part of rice mix it with kesar milk.
- Grind poppy seeds and green chilly into a paste.
- Take a kadai heat ghee in it, now fry this prepared poppy seeds and chilly paste till you get a good flavour.
- Remove the seeds from peach and plum fruits, chop it and boil in water added with salt.
- Remove after 3 minutes.
- Fry the boiled corn in ghee and then add jeera powder to it.
- Mix well and keep it aside.
- Fry the Paneer cubes in ghee
- Add chilly powder, jeera powder, salt and garam masala.
- Mix well and remove once they are golden brown in colour.
- Take a thick bottomed bowl, spread a layer of cooked rice.
- On this, spread the layer of fruit mixture
- Next spread kesar rice on it.
- Mix the second part of rice with boiled corn mixture and spread this layer.
- Finally mix the 3rd part of rice with paneer mixture and spread this layer.
- Finally sprinkle rose water and milk on it.
- Now cover it with a clean cloth or aluminum foil.
- Cook on low flame for about 20 minutes.
- Transfer the entire contents into a serving bowl and serve.
- Serving tip – Tastes best with any Masala curry.
- 2.5 cups – basmati rice
- 1 stick – cinnamon
- 3 tbsps – ghee
- 1 tsp – rose water
- 1/2 litre – milk
- 1/2 tbsp (should be mixed with 3 spoons of milk) – kesar
- salt as required
Bottom Layer:
- 5 – peaches
- 5 – plums(optional)
- 4 – green chillies
- 2 tbsps – ghee
- 3 flakes – garlic
- 1 spoon – poppy seeds
- 1 cup – corn (boiled in salted water)
- 1/2 tbsp – ghee
- 1 tsp – jeera powder
- 250 g – paneer
- 1.5 tsps – garam masala
- 1.5 spoons – red chilly powder
- 1 tsp – jeera powder
- salt as required
- 1 tbsp – ghee
Most important ingredient – make it with love and affection – and you will have all the people floored with your Hyderabadi Biryani.
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