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Main Course

Beef Dum Biryani

Beef Dum Biriyani makes a Sunday lunch for your loved ones. Soft and succulent beef pieces combined with fragrant aromatic basmati rice makes a great meal. The wholesome nutritious Beef Dum Biriyani can be easily prepared at home.

Ingredientsfor 4 servings

3 cup Basmati rice
6 cup Water
1 Onion
1 Lemon
2 Cardamom
5 Pepper
3 piece Cinnamon
2 Bay leaves
1 tsp Cumin seeds
5 Clove
Jathipathri a pinch
1 Tablespoon ghee
Salt, to taste

Preparation

Step 1
For preparing Beef Dum Biriyani, first marinate the beef using turmeric powder, curd and salt. Keep it for 30 minutes.
Step 2
Get rice in a bowl. Meanwhile fry 1 onion and the dry fruits.
Step 3
Wash the rice and then drain off the excess water.
Step 4
Heat a pan and add ghee to it. Meanwhile keep 6 cups of water to boil.
Step 5
Next, add the cumin seeds, cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaves and clove, pepper to it and mix it well.
Step 6
Next, add 1 sliced onion to it.
Step 7
Mix and cook it, stirring well.
Step 8
Next, add the washed rice to it and give it a good stir, add lemon juice to it.
Step 9
Let all the water from the rice goes out, we can hear a kiri kiri type sound when the water fully gone.Then add the boiled water and salt to it and then close the pan and wait until the rice gets cooked.
Step 10
When the rice gets cooked, turn off the heat.
Step 11
Get green chilly, ginger and garlic to a mixer.
Step 12
Grind it well.
Step 13
Add this mix and pudina leaves to the marinated beef and Stir everything together thoroughly.
Step 14
Next, add this beef to the pressure cooker and add tomato.
Step 15
Add 2 sliced onion and spices to it, add salt also, if needed.
Step 16
Then mix it well and close the pressure cooker, and wait for 6 to 7 whistles or until it gets cooked.
Step 17
Then check whether it's cooked or not.
Step 18
Then heat a kadai and pour oil to it. When it's hot, add 1 sliced onion to it.
Step 19
Mix it well.
Step 20
When it is brown, lower the flame.
Step 21
Add coriander powder to it.
Step 22
Give it a good stir.
Step 23
Add the beef along with the gravy to it.
Step 24
Mix it well and add lemon juice to it and let it let it bubble for 10 to 15 minutes.
Step 25
Next, add the coriander leaves to it and off the flame.
Step 26
Then heat a kadai and add ghee to it.
Step 27
When it melts add the beef masala to it and then pour rice to it and repeat the procedure until the kadai fills and in the first layer it should beef masala and last layer should be rice.
Step 28
Next, add some fried onion and dry fruits and some ghee and 1 tsp of rose water, coriander leaves and pudina leaves on the upper layer.
Step 29
Then close the kadai and keep some weight above it or paste a dough of all purpose flour above it.
Step 30
Wait for 20 minutes (should be in low flame) and serve hot.

Tip

Pressure cooking first saves time, but do not skip the dry-roasting step after — that is where the Kerala beef fry gets its signature dark, caramelised crust.

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Preparation

Step 1

For preparing Beef Dum Biriyani, first marinate the beef using turmeric powder, curd and salt. Keep it for 30 minutes.

Step 2

Get rice in a bowl. Meanwhile fry 1 onion and the dry fruits.

Step 3

Wash the rice and then drain off the excess water.

Step 4

Heat a pan and add ghee to it. Meanwhile keep 6 cups of water to boil.

Step 5

Next, add the cumin seeds, cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaves and clove, pepper to it and mix it well.

Step 6

Next, add 1 sliced onion to it.

Step 7

Mix and cook it, stirring well.

Step 8

Next, add the washed rice to it and give it a good stir, add lemon juice to it.

Step 9

Let all the water from the rice goes out, we can hear a kiri kiri type sound when the water fully gone.Then add the boiled water and salt to it and then close the pan and wait until the rice gets cooked.

Step 10

When the rice gets cooked, turn off the heat.

Step 11

Get green chilly, ginger and garlic to a mixer.

Step 12

Grind it well.

Step 13

Add this mix and pudina leaves to the marinated beef and Stir everything together thoroughly.

Step 14

Next, add this beef to the pressure cooker and add tomato.

Step 15

Add 2 sliced onion and spices to it, add salt also, if needed.

Step 16

Then mix it well and close the pressure cooker, and wait for 6 to 7 whistles or until it gets cooked.

Step 17

Then check whether it's cooked or not.

Step 18

Then heat a kadai and pour oil to it. When it's hot, add 1 sliced onion to it.

Step 19

Mix it well.

Step 20

When it is brown, lower the flame.

Step 21

Add coriander powder to it.

Step 22

Give it a good stir.

Step 23

Add the beef along with the gravy to it.

Step 24

Mix it well and add lemon juice to it and let it let it bubble for 10 to 15 minutes.

Step 25

Next, add the coriander leaves to it and off the flame.

Step 26

Then heat a kadai and add ghee to it.

Step 27

When it melts add the beef masala to it and then pour rice to it and repeat the procedure until the kadai fills and in the first layer it should beef masala and last layer should be rice.

Step 28

Next, add some fried onion and dry fruits and some ghee and 1 tsp of rose water, coriander leaves and pudina leaves on the upper layer.

Step 29

Then close the kadai and keep some weight above it or paste a dough of all purpose flour above it.

Step 30

Wait for 20 minutes (should be in low flame) and serve hot.