Mushroom Biryani
Sinu, a friend of mine invited me to her house to have lunch. She prepared Mushroom Biryani. That was the best Mushroom Biryani I have ever had. It was very tasty and flavorful. The flavour of the mushroom was prominent there. I asked her for the recipe of this special Biryani. She obliged me by giving this recipe. Also told me that this recipe is her family recipe. She learnt this recipe from her mother. I was happy to get some one's family recipe.
There are different types of mushrooms. But all are not edible. All the mushrooms, mostly button mushroom, sold in the supermarket are commercially grown in mushroom farms. Mushroom is used commonly in many cuisine like Chinese, Korean, European and Japanese. It is known as the meat of the Vegetable world. Nowadays use of mushrooms become very famous in Indian cuisine too. People are making mushrooms in Indian version. Mushroom Biryani is one among them. Here is my learnt version of mushrooms Biryani.
For mushroom masala
Mushroom - 400gms
Onion - 1/2 kg
Garlic - 7 to 8 cloves
Tomatoes - 2big
Salt to taste
Curd - 1cup
Haldi- 1/2tsp
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Kitchen king masala - 1/2tsp
Garam masala - 1/2tsp
Oil - 1tsp + 3tbsp
Chopped mint leaves- 2 tbsp
Chopped coriander leaves - 2tbsp
Sugar - 1/4tsp
Clove - 3
Green cardamom - 2
Cinnamon - 1inch
Papper corn- 5 to 7
Zeera- 1/2 tsp
Saha zeera- 1/2 tsp
Mace- 1pinch
Green chilli - 2
For rice
Rice - 3cups
Water- 6cups
Salt to taste
Chopped mint leaves - 1tbsp
Chopped coriander leaves - 1tbsp
Ghee- 1tbsp
Clove - 2
Green cardamom - 2
Cinnamon - 1/2 inch
Zeera- 1//2 tsp
Sahi zeera- 1/2 tsp
For Assembling
Ghee- 2tbsp
Green chilli,- 2
Mint leaves - 3tbsp
Coriander leaves - 3tbsp
Rice
Heat ghee in a heavy button pan and add whole spices and allow releasing their flavour. Add cleaned rice and fry up to water dries up. Then add 6cups of water and salt to taste to it. Cook the rice till done.
Mushroom Masala
Peel and clean mushrooms properly. Cut them in big pieces and keep aside. Heat oil (1tsp) in a pan, add mushrooms and fry upto golden brown and keep aside.
Peel and clean the onion, slice them properly. Heat 11/2 tbsp of ghee in a pan and add sliced onion and fry it up to brown and keep aside.
Clean and chop tomatoes and peel garlic. In a grinder jar add tomatoes and garlic and make a smooth paste.
Heat 3tbsp of oil in a kadai, add the rest of the whole spices and allow them to release their flavour. Add above paste and saute up to the oil separates from the masala. Now add dry spices, salt and sugar to the masala. Beat the curd without lumps. Add curd to the masala and saute in high flame and mix properly. Then lower the flame and cook up to the oil separates from the masala. Then add fried mushrooms and half of the fried onion and saute again. Add chopped mint leaves and coriander leaves and saute again for 5mins. Switch off the gas and Keep aside.
Assembling
Heat ghee (1tbsp) in a kadai. Spread some mushrooms, masala, green chilli, mint leaves, coriander leaves and some rice like layers. Repeat the layers again. Add 1tbsp of ghee on the above the layers and put in low flame for 5 to 6 mins.
Serve hot with any choice of raita.
Heat ghee (1tbsp) in a kadai. Spread some mushrooms, masala, green chilli, mint leaves, coriander leaves and some rice like layers. Repeat the layers again. Add 1tbsp of ghee on the above the layers and put in low flame for 5 to 6 mins.
Serve hot with any choice of raita.