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Saturday, March 9, 2019

Paneer briyani



Ingredients:

  • 10 Cashews 
  • 10 raisins 
  • 1 onion thinly sliced
  • 1 onion sliced
  • 1 handful coriander leaves chopped
  • 1 handful mint leaves chopped
  • 3 tbsp ghee or oil
  • 1 tsp orange color 

cooking rice 

  • 1 tsp oil
  • 1 ½ cups basmati rice
  • 1 star anise / chakra phool
  • 1 bay leaf / tej patta
  • 4 cloves / laung
  • 2 inch cinnamon / dalchini
  • 3 green cardamom / choti elaichi
  • 2 to 4 pepper corn / kali mirch
  • Salt to taste

Marination ingredients

  • 1 cup Paneer cubes
  • 1 bay leaf 
  • 2 green cardamoms 
  • 2 inch cinnamon 
  • 4 cloves 
  • ½ tsp shahi jeera 
  • ¾ cup yogurt ,
  • ¾ tbsp red chili powder
  • ¼ tsp turmeric 
  • ¾ tbsp. ginger garlic paste
  • 1 tbsp biryani masala
  • 1 handful mint leaves chopped 
  • 1 handful coriander leaves chopped
  • Salt to taste




Method:
  1. Fry cashews and raisins in ghee and set aside. Saute cold paneer cubes in 1 tsp of ghee for 2 to 3 mins on a medium high flame.
  2. Immediately drop hot fried paneer in the cold yogurt marination ingredients and set aside for at least 30 mins.
  3. Bring 3 cups of water to a boil, add in the spices cooking rice.soaked basmathi rice.Cook till the rice is ¾ th cooked.
  4. Heat 3 tbsps. ghee in a wide and deep non-stick pan or a clay pot, add sliced onions and fry till they turn golden brown.Add the Marinated paneer. Sauté for a 2 min on medium high.
  5. Spread a layer of rice evenly.Sprinkle the coriander and mint leaves.Sprinkle the fried onions.Pour the orange color milk evenly all over.Add the fried cashews and raisins.
  6. Cover the pan with a foil and close with lid, making sure that the lid is airtight, so that the steam doesn’t escape. Heat a tawa move this rice pan on to the ot tawa, I used an old dosa tawa. Cook for 25 mins on a medium flame. This helps in preventing the biryani from getting burnt beneath. 
  7. Serve and  garnish paneer biryani with mint or coriander leaves.

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