Bangladesh

Kacchi Biryani

Name: Kacchi Biryani
Total time: 150 min
Yield: 5
Cuisine: Bangladesh
Ingredients: 1 kg Mutton; 600 g Basmati rice; 300 g Yoghurt; 2 cups Fried onions; some of each Saffron & kewra water; some of each Biryani spices & ghee

Dhaka's layered mutton biryani

Kacchi biryani is Dhaka's pride: raw, yoghurt-marinated mutton is layered with parboiled rice and cooked together in a sealed pot.

This dum method lets meat and rice cook in their own steam, so the flavours soak deeply into each other.

Servings5

Time150 min

LevelAdvanced

Ingredients

Mutton1 kg
Basmati rice600 g
Yoghurt300 g
Fried onions2 cups
Saffron & kewra watersome of each
Biryani spices & gheesome of each

★ = available authentic in the Asia Boutique

Preparation

Marinate the mutton in yoghurt and spices.
Parboil the rice in spiced water.
Lay marinated meat in the pot, layer rice on top.
Drizzle with saffron, kewra, fried onions and ghee.
Seal the pot and cook gently on dum.

Make it original

Saffron and kewra water for kacchi biryani are in the Asia Boutique.

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