Ingredients:
Basmathi rice / Long grain rice - 1 cup
Fish - 1lbs or 450 grams
Onion - 1 ( thinly sliced)
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp each
Green chili - 1 no ( slit into two)
Curd - ½ cup
Minced cilantro & mint leaves - ½ cup each
Saffron or orange food color - A pinch
Ghee - 2 tsp
Water - 6 cups
Salt - to taste
Masala powder :
Turmeric powder - ¼tsp
Garam masala - ½ tsp or as needed
Red chili powder - 1 tsp or to taste
Coriander powder - 1 ½ tsp or to taste.
For Marination:
Lime - 1 tbsp or to taste
Red chili powder - ½ tsp
Turmeric powder - A pinch
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp both
Oil - 1 tsp
Salt - to taste( for fish only)
For Seasoning:
Oil - 3 tbsp
Cardamom - 1 or as needed
Cloves - 2 or as needed
Bay leaves - 1
Fennel seeds - ½ tsp
Method:
- Wash & soak rice for 30 minutes & drain it for minimum 20 minutes.
- Marinate fish with marination masala and keep in refrigerator for 20 minutes.
- Soak saffron in little hot water or mix food color in little water and keep it aside.
- Heat Oil in a pan, fry the fish for 2 minutes one side & 2 minutes other side in medium heat, Remove and keep it aside.
- Keep the same pan in low heat, add seasoning ingredients allow it to splutter.
- Add Onion and saute till it turn glossy & transparant.
- Add Ginger garlic paste and saute it for a minutes or till raw smell disapper.
- Now add Curd, Green chili, Minced cilantro, Mint leaves and all masala powder.
- Mix well & saute it for 5 ~ 7 minutes in low heat. Add Half of the onion masala mixture to fried fish.
- Mean while boil 6 cups of water in high heat, when water boils vigorously add soaked rice with 1 tsp of oil & ½ tsp of salt and allow it to cook in high heat.
- After 5 minutes or when rice cooks to 90%, strain the water.
- Immediately add half cooked rice to the onion masala and spread evenly.
- Then add fish masala mixture over the rice & spread evenly.
- Sprinkle saffron water or food color water over the rice and cover the pan with plate. keep the hot water bowl on the plate and dum it for 10 minutes in low heat.
- After 5 minutes, remove the plate and remove all the fishes.
- Add ghee and gently mix rice & masala gravy.
- Take one or two slice of the fish and make into small chunks and mix it with briyani.
- Add remaining fish slices to briyani and mix gently.
- Serve hot with any raitha..
Note
Always select boneless fish fillets for this briyani. Fry, fish in nonstick pan to avoid fish to stick at the bottom of the pan. Do not fry fish too crispy.
This recipe goes to Jabeen's Corner, Taste of Pearlcity- Iftar Moments Hijri, Hyderabadi Cuisine Recipes, Signature Recipes.
You are making me hungry ....this looks so fantastic... wonderful clicks...
This is a gourmet dish...so tempting. Reminds me of Sindhi fish pulao.
That looks so exotic n full of flavors ~ perfect biryani color too 🙂
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Looks so gorgeous and inviting dear...
Yummy looking biriyani here.. Photos are out of the world.. so good..
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O saras, Ur second pics looks absolutely YUMMY..Double like !!! Very much tempted now
Perfect biriyani..loved the pic, it looks so tempting.
Looks so gud ....and love the presentation
Makes me drool,perfect and spicy biryani..love it
OMG, Perfect Biryani, Never tried any Fish biryani recipes. You have got a absolute colour in biryani that is tempting too much.
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Oke..this is tempting...
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Can you pass that bowl please.. looks super inviting...
delicious looking dum biryani lovely flavours
yumm! Just love Fish Biriyani anytime...
mouthwatering biriyani
looks nice!!!
Very tempting clicks, mouthwatering here by looking at the pictures. Thank you so much for sending it to Iftar Moments 🙂
I too tried fish biriyani recently....awesome recipe dear...love it!!
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Fish biryani looks marvellous, delicious and tempting. Wonderful recipe and presentation.
Mouthwatering...Which fish did you use for this?
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Never mada biryani with fish...awesome recipe...And very nice clicks
That sounds delicious...complex and flavorful.
looks very yummy and tempting..
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