Food Center Burns Road Biryani recipe

Food Center Biryani

MKR Special Biryani recipe:

Burns Road is famous for its food not only in Karachi but all over the country. Chicken/Beef biryani from Food Center is the highlight of the food served in Burns Road. Today, I am posting the recipe of Food Center Biryani which we all love. I hope you will enjoy this one!

Ingredients:

• Chicken/Mutton/Beef 1 kg, washed and cleaned, cut into pieces
• Basmati rice 1 kg, soaked for 15 - 20 minutes
• Potatoes (medium sized) 4, steam lightly, peel and cut into large pieces
• Tomatoes  (medium sized) 6, cut into 4 pieces each
• Onions 4 medium, finely sliced
• Mint (podina) 1 bunch, finely chopped
• Green chilies 6 whole
• Ginger garlic paste 1, 1/2 tbsp
• Dried plums (sookha alu bukhara) 15 - 20 soaked in warm water.
• Red chili powder 1 tbsp
• Coriander powder 2 tbsp
• Black pepper (whole) 1 tsp
• Cloves 4 - 6
• Cardamoms 6
• Black cumin seeds (zeera) 1 tsp
• Yellow food color 1/4 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Yogurt  (beaten) 1 cup
• Warm milk 1/4 cup (add the food color in warm milk)
• Ghee/oil 1 cup
• Lemon juice of  2 lemons

Cooking Instructions:

• Combine mutton or chicken with yogurt, ginger garlic paste, red chili powder, green chilies, coriander powder, chopped mint, lemon juice, dried plums and salt.
• Mix well and set aside for half an hour.
• Heat oil in a pan and fry sliced onions till golden brown.
• Move half of the fried onions to an absorbent paper.
• Add the marinated meat to the remaining half onions in the pan .
• Cook on low heat without adding water, when the liquid dries fry a little and remove from heat.
• Fry the potatoes and tomatoes separately and add both to the prepared curry.
• Boil the rice with green cardamoms, black pepper, cloves and salt.
• When the rice is half done drain in a strainer.
• Put a little oil in the base of a pan and make a layer of half rice. Then put a layer of the prepared curry and cover with a layer of rice, pour the mixture of warm milk and food color on top of it.
• Cover tightly and steam on very low heat for 15 - 20 minutes.
• Serve hot with raita (yogurt sauce).

Special Dhaba Style Karahi recipe

Here is a special Dhaba style Mutton Karahi recipe that you can try at home, I don't add water in it. Please do try this at home and let me know how it goes.

Ingredients:

goat/lamb (washed) 1/2 kg
ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp
Oil 1 to 2 serving spoons
tomatoes (chopped) 4 (medium sized)
roasted, crushed cumin 1 tbsp
roasted, crushed corriander seeds 2 tsp
whole spice powder 1 1/2 tsp
turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
lemon juice 2 tsp
red chilli powder 1 tsp
crushed red chilli 1/2 tsp
black pepper powder 1 tsp
salt to taste
green chillies 3,4
fresh corriander 1/4 bunch
fresh ginger 1 inch piece (julian cut)


Cooking instructions:

Take a wok and heat oil on medium heat.
Add ginger/garlic paste and stir until color changes.
Now add meat and cook for five minutes or unil the color changes.
Now add all the spices (cumin,corriander seeds,whole spice powder, red chilli powder and blackpepper and cook for one minute.
Now add tomatoes, cover the lid and lower the heat.
Let it cook for around 30 minutes or until the meat in tender.
Keep checking and don't add water unless required.
After 30 minutes, remove the lid and stir everything upside down.
You can remove the tomato skin if you want and keep cooking until the mutton is tender.
Now sprinkle 1/2 tsp whole spice powder (garam masala) and add fresh julian cut ginger, chopped green chillies and fresh corriander.
Cook on low heat for another 4 - 5 minutes and serve with hot naan and raita.