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Kolkata Mutton Biryani Recipe | Calcutta Biryani

Kolkata Mutton Biryani is a flavorful delicacy cooked with mutton chunks, rice, potato, and boiled eggs (optional).

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Course: Main
Cuisine: Mughlai
Keyword: calcutta mutton biryani recipe, Debjanir Rannaghar, Kolata Biryani recipe, kolkata biryani recipe debjanir rannaghar, mutton biryani recipe, mutton biryani with aloo recipe
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time: 10 hours 30 minutes
Servings: 6 People
Calories: 1263kcal
Cost: Rs 1000

Ingredients

  • 1 Kg Mutton around 10 pieces; Biryani cut; with extra 100g fat
  • 500 g Whole-grain flavored Basmati Rice
  • 10 Aloo Bukhara
  • 6 Boiled Egg Optional; I skipped it
  • 5 Large Potato
  • 2 Onion This is to make "Birista"
  • 2 Pinch Yellow food color
  • 200 ml vegetable oil This is to fry both Potato and Onion and to make Tehr
  • 1 tablespoon Green Chili Paste
  • 4 teaspoon Salt will be used all through
  • 75 g Ghee
  • 50 g Khowa
  • 15 strands Keshar
  • 200 ml Milk
  • 4 drops Mitha Itrt
  • 1 tablespoon Keora Water

To make Biriyani Masala:

  • 2 Cinnamon
  • 2 Black cardamom
  • 5 Green cardamom
  • 4 Clove
  • 2 Bay Leaf
  • 1 Nutmeg
  • 4 petals Mace
  • 1 teaspoon Shahi Cumin Seed
  • 1 Star Anise
  • 10 Kebab Chini
  • 10 White Pepper

To cook Mutton:

  • 2 Onion
  • ½ cup Birista
  • 1 tablespoon Papaya skin paste
  • 1 tablespoon Green Chili Paste
  • 1 tablespoon Ginger Paste
  • 2 tablespoon Garlic Paste
  • 150 ml Plain Curd
  • 50 ml Mishti Doi / Sweet Curd
  • 2 tablespoon Tomato Ketchup
  • ½ teaspoon Turmeric Powder
  • 3 Dry chilies
  • 2 Bay Leaf
  • 2 tablespoon Ghee
  • ½ oil from the remaining oil from frying potatoes and onions
  • 4 Clove
  • 1 Cinnamon Stick
  • 2 Black Cardamom
  • 4 Green Cardamom
  • Salt already mentioned

To make Akhni Water:

  • 4 Cinnamon Stick
  • 2 Black cardamom
  • 4 Green cardamom
  • 4 Cloves
  • 4 Bay Leaf

Other:

  • 1 cup Wheat Flour dough For sealing the Utensil/ Aluminium Foil
  • 30 Bay leaf to place inside the utensil while cooking the Biryani

Instructions

  • As the process is elaborate; I am writing down phase by phase to help you to understand what to do next.

Making of Biriyani Masala:

  • Dry roast all the spices mentioned under the head of Biryani Masala.
  • Once cooled, make a powder of the spices.
  • Around 2 tablespoon of this powder will be used in the Biryani.
  • Store the masala in an airtight container for further use.

Marinating the Mutton (stage 1 & 2)

  • Marinate mutton with papaya paste and 1 teaspoon salt for 8 hours.
  • After 8 hours, mix the Onion paste, ginger paste, Garlic paste, green chili paste, and crushed Birista along with plain curd, sweet curd, and sahi jira paste (optional). Turmeric powder, tomato ketchup with ¼ teaspoon salt.
  • Add 1 teaspoon of Biryani Masala as well and marinate the mutton with the spices for 2 hours.

Making of Birista and Fried Potato:

  • Finely chop Onion.
  • Heat oil in a pan.
  • Fry the onion till they are crisp.
  • Strain from the oil.
  • Peel and cut potatoes in half. If using medium-sized potatoes keep those wholes.
  • Marinate potatoes with a mixture of yellow food color and ¼ teaspoon salt.
  • Heat the same oil used for making Birista.
  • Temper the oil with 1" Cinnamon, 1 Black Cardamom, 2 Cloves, and green cardamom.
  • Fry potatoes until they are golden in color and 70% cooked.
  • Add ½ teaspoon Biryani Masala to it as well.
  • Strain fried potatoes from the pan.
  • Use the same oil for cooking mutton.

Cooking the Mutton:

  • Heat Ghee and ½ of the spiced oil used in frying the onion and Potato in a deep-bottom pan and temper it with bay leaf and dry red chili, mace, nutmeg, cinnamon, and cardamom.
  • Add the marinated mutton with the marinade and mix.
  • Cover the pan with a lid and cook over a low flame for around 1 hour or till the mutton is done 70%.
  • You do not need to add water. Mutton will be cooked in its own water.
  • Once the cooking is done, the pan will have cooked meat and the oily substance separated.
  • This oily substance is known as "Tahr."
  • Separate the Tahr when the meat is hot from the pan and keep it aside.
  • This makes the biryani flavorful.

To make Akhni Water and cook the rice:

  • Take 2 liters of water in a vessel.
  • Take the spices mentioned under the head "Akhni Masala" and make a "Potli using a fresh cloth with the spices.
  • Boil the spice potli along with the water for around 30 minutes.
  • The water will change color and will turn light brown.
  • Meanwhile, wash rice 2-3 times under running water.
  • Soak rice for the time water is boiling.
  • Add 2 teaspoon salt to the boiling water and also the soaked rice.
  • Cook till the rice is done 70%.
  • Switch the flame off and drain the water.
  • Spread cooked rice over a plate.

Assembling the Biryani:

  • Warm the Tahr before using it again and mix with the remaining oil from frying the onion and potatoes.
  • Mix Keshar and a pinch of yellow food color with milk after crushing it using a mortar and pestle.
  • Take 2 tablespoon Ghee and coat the inner side of a handi with the ghee.
  • Take around 15 Bay leaves and place those.
  • Pour the cooked mutton with the gravy.
  • Top it with ⅓ of the cooked rice.
  • Sprinkle ⅓ of the Biriyani masala, followed by ⅓ of the keshar milk and a drop of mitha Itr, followed by 1 tablespoon of Tahr and some ghee.
  • Add ⅓ Rice again followed by boiled Egg (if using) and Fried Potatoes.
  • Sprinkle ⅓ of the Biriyani masala, followed by ⅓ of the keshar milk and a drop of mitha Itr, followed by 1 tablespoon of Tahr and some ghee again.
  • Add Keora Water as well.
  • Again, add the rest of the rice, followed by crumbled khowa and aloo Bukhara.
  • Sprinkle ⅓ of the Biriyani masala, followed by ⅓ of the keshar milk and a drop of mitha Itr, followed by the remaining ghee and Tahr.
  • Cover the Handi with a lid and seal it with Soft Whole wheat Flour dough.
  • Keep the flame on the lower side and place a Tawa over the heat.
  • Place the Handi on the top of the Tawa and cook for around 15 minutes.
  • The dough will be tough after 15 minutes, and you can break it using your fingers.
  • When the dough is crumbly, your Biryani is basically ready.
  • Switch the flame off and do not open the seal for 15 minutes.
  • After 15 minutes, open the seal.
  • Using a spatula, lightly mix the Biryani while serving, but not before that.

If using Aluminium Foil to seal

  • Cover the vessel with foil (2-fold) and then place the lid.
  • The rest of the process is the same.
  • In the video, I have shown how to follow this process. 

Video

Notes

Top Tip
  • Instead of Flour dough, you may use aluminum foil to seal the utensil.
    The older the rice is, the more the taste.
  • Use better quality mutton to make biryani. The fat is transformed into the Tahr, which is needed to make the Biryani.
  • I skip Egg mostly; however, mentioned in the recipe when to add it.

Nutrition

Serving: 250g | Calories: 1263kcal | Carbohydrates: 122g | Protein: 70.7g | Fat: 54.3g | Saturated Fat: 20.7g | Cholesterol: 235mg | Sodium: 1007mg | Fiber: 7.2g | Sugar: 31.2g
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