Seafood biryani

l Seafood biryani

Serves: 04

Preparation Time: 60 Minutes

Level: Moderate

Make it either mixed seafood biryani with fish, prawn and squid or make it fish biryani or prawn biryani by excluding other in the recipe accordingly.

Prawn biryani

Ingredients

For marination

• Fish - 500 g (preferably boneless cubes)
• Medium sized prawn - 200 gram
• Squid (if available) - 200 gram
• Chili powder - 1 tablespoon
• Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon
• Salt to taste
• Lemon - 1/2 no.
• Tamarind extraction - 1 tablespoon (optional)

For rice

• Refined oil - 4 tablespoon
• Cumin - 1 teaspoon
• Fennel seed - 1 teaspoon
• Bay leaf - 1 no.
• Pepper corn - 4-5 no.
• Cardamon - 1 no.
• Clove - 4 no.
• Onion - 1 medium sized
• Tomato - 1 medium sized
• Ginger-garlic paste - 1 table spoon
• Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon
• Chili powder - 2 teaspoon
• coriander powder - 2 teaspoon
• Garam masala powder - 2 teaspoon
• Salt - to taste
• Rice - 3 Cups
• Coconut - 1/4

For topping

• Ghee - 1 tablespoon
• Mustard - 1 teaspoon
• Red  chili - 2 no.
• Green chili - 1 no
• curry leaf - 1 spring
• Coriander leaf - 3 spring
• Mint leaf - 1 spring
• Garlic - 2 clove

Preparation

• Wash, clean and marinate fish/prawn with set of ingredient for marination at least 1 hour before cooking
• Wash, clean and soak rice for 30 minutes
• Slice onion and divide to two equal portion (1 for deep frying, 1 for cooking with rice)
• Fine chop tomatoes
• Grind Ginger-garlic paste
• Take coconut extraction 

Cooking

• Deep 1 portion of sliced onion and keep aside
• Heat oil in a thick bottom cooking vessel (or cooker)
• Add cumin, fennel, bay leaf, pepper corn, cardamon, cloves one by one and fry them
• Add onions and cooking until then turn mild brown
• Add ginger garlic paste and cook until they off flavor
• Add tomatoes and saute well
• Add turmeric, chili, coriander, garam masala powder and mix well
• Add water, salt and allow it to boil
• Add rice and coconut extraction and cook rice until almost done

• In a frying pan, heat oil and ghee
• Shallow fry marinated fish,
• add mustard, garlic, green & red chili, curry leaves to fish just before taking them out
• Add this on top of rice along with fried onions, coriander & mint leaves and 'dum' it for 5 + 10 minutes*

Notes

• Check here how to 'dum'

   * 5 minutes with fire ON and 10 minutes after turning off