Easiest Way to Make Favorite Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani

Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani.

Hello everybody, it's me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we're going to make a distinctive dish, calcutta (kolkata) style mutton biryani. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It's enjoyed by millions daily. It's easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They're fine and they look wonderful. Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook calcutta (kolkata) style mutton biryani using 74 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Calcutta (Kolkata) style Mutton Biryani:

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

Steps 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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