Best Mutton Biryani | How To Make Mutton Biryani Recipe

Mutton Biryani or Gosht Biryani – is a royal dish that indeed needs no introduction or special mentions. That beautifully spiced and fragrant layers of biryani rice centered with juicy, tender mutton and masalas, bliss! Today I am sharing the most demanding, Mutton Biryani or call it Bombay style biryani. Yes, this not a Hyderabadi Kacche Gosht ki Biryani but call it as a Bombay style pakki gosht ki biryani. Prepared with great care and love, Mutton biryani holds a regal legacy from the kitchen of Nawabs and Nizams, differing slightly from region to region. Let us see how to make mutton biryani recipe step by step at home.

To all the non – veg lovers out there, have you ever said NO for a biryani??? I at least do not think so. The fight between a Veg Pulao and Non – Veg biryani is a different level competition. But the choice between Aloo wali biryani and without Aloo wali biryani is a whole different level. And then the lovers of chicken biryani v/s mutton biryani.

Thank God, no one from my family tends to fall in these categories. For us biryani is BIRYANI. There is no more discussion than that. So here, today I am sharing an authentic Bombay mutton biryani recipe

How to make Mutton Biryani?

Mutton biryani recipe involves series of steps to follow. Biryani recipe indeed includes marination, to cook mutton, to cook rice, layer the biryani and then dum it. Another important thing that makes any  biryani recipe royal and rich in taste is making of birista. Birista, particularly, is the most effort indulging process of making biryani or korma. We were told as a kid that a person who can make a perfect birista is the one who can make anything. And I took that too seriously in my head.

You can check my step by step process on how to make birista for biryani

Right from chopping to frying, it is indeed an eye keeping procedure. And, if you miss the point of turning off the flame at the right time, you may probably burn the onions.

So, begin with slicing the onions. In a deep pan, add oil more than the quantity of your onions. Fry on high flame in the beginning. Lower the flame as you see the onions turning pink. Now, as soon as you see the onions turning golden, stir them well. Take the pan immediately off the flame when the onions are proper golden and are about to turn brown. I always store big batch of birosta in my freezer, therefore making biryani, korma are never time consuming process for me ever.

To marinate mutton for biryani recipe

Let us get our hands over to the mutton marination. The recipe of mutton biryani calls for goat meat (lamb) on bone, clean and wash it well, then drain all the water if any. Then, you need to make a paste of fresh ingredients to give a punch in our mutton biryani.  So, assemble peppercorns, cardamoms, cloves, garlic cloves, ginger pieces, coriander leaves and green chilies. Now, grind these all in into a paste. After that, take thick yoghurt, birista, garam masala powder and ground paste into a bowl, and marinate mutton into it.

To boil rice for biryani

I have used long grain basmati rice (biryani rice), bay leaves, shah jeera, cinnamon sticks, cloves, star anise, water, ghee and green cardamom (choti elaichi).

For layering mutton biryani

Ofcourse, you also need ingredients here. So, gather a stack full of mint leaves, birista, saffron soaked in milk and ghee are perfect enough to go with the layering. The delicious homemade restaurant style mutton biryani seems to be pretty lengthy in process with too many preparations. But trust me, it is very easy to make

There might be few, who particularly believe that making biryani is very technical and tough game. But if you mentally prepare yourself for achieving your goal you can do anything. Indeed, it is a game of cooking strong and getting the perfect taste out of each ingredient. But never lose hope or confidence. Failure comes with a message of giving another try to make it a success.

Important tips on how to prepare best mutton biryani Recipe

Most noteworthy here is, to make best biryani recipe, always use aged best quality long grain basmati rice. Never ever compromise on this point. longer the grains of rice better will  be the biryani both, visually as well as in taste.

Secondly, always marinate the mutton in masala for atleast 2 hours, I prefer the marination over night. Yes, marination is the soul to the masala layer in any biryani recipe except egg biryani.

Be sure to cook the rice as mentioned, i.e 90 percent which is exact 9 minutes from the point when rice starts boiling on high heat. Also, do not stir the rice too much while boil as it may break the rice grains and result will not be as we want it to be.

Lastly, do not use thin bottom pan, always use heavy bottom pan or handi to make the recipe of biryani.

for the final dum, always, cook biryani on high for 5 minutes and them simmer to dum for 15 minutes. This helps in generating steam well cooking the mutton biryani recipe perfectly each time.

Enough of philosophy before biryani I believe.

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How to make mutton biryani recipe step by step

preparation of mutton biryani recipe

1. To begin with, first, add all the ingredients mentioned under “to grind to paste” into a blender and blend it to a fine paste.

2. Then, in a large bowl, add ground paste, 1/4 cup birista, whisked curd, and garam masala powder along with salt.

3. Now, add clean and washed mutton and mix well.

4. Allow the mutton to marinate for 2 hours atleast (preferably over night) under refrigeration.

to fry potatoes

5. Once the mutton is ready to cook, then heat oil in a pan, add potato cubes

6. Fry the potatoes until golden. Then take them out and set it aside for later use.

to cook mutton biryani masala

7. To cook mutton, heat oil in a handi

8. Then add sliced onions, salt and fry until pink

9. Once the onions softens, add cinnamon sticks and cumin seeds and cook

10. Fry everything until onions starts picking up golden colour, do not over brown or burn it.

11. Now, add marinated mutton and saute on high 5-6 minutes until raw small goes off

12. Then, add red chilli powder, turmeric and coriander powder and mix. Now, add 2 cups of water, cover and cook the mutton until tender. This will take approx 50 minutes as I have made it in handi. Do not over cook mutton at this stage. Keep stirring in between to avoid burning. If water dries up, you may add more. But you can make it pressure cooker as well to save time. Also, amke sure, if you are cooking it in pressure cooker, do not add to much water at a time. We need to cook it such that not much water is left in cooked mutton.

13. Now, add tomato slices, fried potatoes and chilies and cook for another 5 minutes.

14. You will see oil layer on the top, and mutton masala has not much water into it. This is the perfect mutton masala for biryani recipe. Now, carefully scoop out the layer of oil in abowl and set it aside for later use.

to boil rice for biryani

15. While the mutton cooks, clean and wash biryani rice and soak it for 45 minutes.

16. Then, in a large pot, add enough water, bay leaves, cinnamon sticks, shajeera (or cumin seeds), cloves, cardamom, star anise, ghee and salt. Bring it to a boil

17. Once the water starts boling, starin the soaked rice and add into boiling water

18. Cook the rice until 90 percent done. Do not over cook or rice will get sticky and will break in biryani. Immediately strain the water and set the rice aside.

to layer and dum the mutton biryani

19. Now, in a large pot in which you want to dum biryani, add half the cooked rice as a bottom layer.

20. Then, add cooked mutton evenly

21. Sprinkle mint leaves, 1 tablespoon ghee, 1/2 of the soaked saffron and birista

22. Then, add the reamining rice over the mutton layer evenly,

23. Now, pour remaining ghee, saffron milk and reserved oil that we scooped out from the mutton masala.

24. Finally, put a clean cotton cloth over the top and cover it with the lid putting heavy weight on the top of the lid. Dum the mutton biryani for 20 minutes, first on high flames for 5 minutes and then simmer for 15 minutes.

Once the biryani is done, allow it to rest for 15 minutes. Then carefully dish out, Mutton Biryani is ready to serve with raita of your choice.