Hyderabadi Prawn Biryani / Prawn Dum Biriyani

I love seafood esp prawn,when my friend Savi told she made dum prawn biriyani and it turned out awesome i's was in urge to cook instantly. Ofcourse,no wonder, i did and relished this awesome biriyani the very next day itself. But it took more than 2 months to post this recipe ,c, how lazy am !!! Well, it's sure a treat for all seafood lovers out there and njoy guys ....

Ingredients :

For Marination:

• Prawn /Shrimp -- 1 lb
• GG Paste -- 1 tsp
• Red chilli pwdr -- 1 tsp
• Lemon Juice -- 1 1/2 tsp
  

For Cooking Rice:

• Basmati rice -- 2 1/2 cup
• Oil -- 1 tsp
• Salt -- 1 tsp
• Cloves -- 2nos.
• Cardamom -- 2 nos.
• Cumin Seeds -- 1 tsp
• Cinnamon -- 1 in piece
• Bay leaves -- 1 no.

For Masala :

• Cinnamon -- 1 inch piece
• Cardamom -- 2 nos.
• Cloves -- 2 nos.
• Bay leaves -- 1 no.
• Ghee -- 1 tbsp
• Oil -- 2 tbsp
• Onion -- 2 nos.
• Tomato -- 2 1/2 nos.
• Green chillies -- 2 nos.
• GG paste -- 1 tsp
• Mint Leaves -- a handful
• Cilantro -- a handful
• Orange color /Saffron colour -- 1/2 tsp (optional)

Method :

Marination :

Marinate the shrimp with the given items for minimum half an hour or do it overnite. This ensures shimp to be juicy when it's cooked.


Preparing the Masala :

Take a kadai and add both ghee and oil together. Add the cinnamon,cloves,cardamom once the ghee melts and fry for few minutes. Add the sliced onions and cook well. at this point add the salt to make the onions leaves moisture and cook fast. Followed by GG paste and saute well. Dump in the tomatoes and cook until the tomatoes r totally disintegrated. U may now add the turmeric powder and the marinated shrimp mixture into this and saute well. Drop in the mint and cilantro leaves as well. Cook this mixture until ur shrimp gets almost cooked.

Rice :

Soak the rice for 10 minutes. By the time take a big pot /bowl and fill it with 3/4 of water and add oil and all the garam masalas. Give it a boil. Add the rice slowly and cook for exactly 5 minutes ( 3/4th cooked ). U may take out the masala's now and drain the water .


Layering the rice :

Take the biriyani pot and add half the shrimp masala and then add the half quantity of hot steaming rice straight after draining . Top the rice with another layer of the reamaining shrimp mixture and then followed by remaining hot rice. U may add some mint /coriander leaves in bw the layers if u wish. Dilute the saffron colour with little warm milk /water and drizzle on the top of the rice. Cover the vessel with a cotton cloth (preferably very thick ) and seal it. Close the lid very tightly . Heat a dosa pan and place the biriyani pot on top and cook for 15 minutes. Make sure no steam escapes while cooking.. Remove the lid and by using the fork mix the rice gently without breaking it and have it..

Ur delicious Shrimp / Prawn dum biriyani is ready to serve.

Source: Kitchen Secrets