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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).

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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