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).