Irani Biryani

Put some oil and chopped onions in a sauce pan and fry the onion till they change their colour to a light brown colour.

Take fried onions out on to a tissue pepper to let excess oil out and grind half of the brown onions.

Now fry some cashews and almonds in the same pan, a little then.

Take the nuts out after a couple of minutes and grind them in blender.

Fry the potatoes in the same pan as well until they are cooked.

Put the meat into the same saucepan and fry the meat.

Add fried onions, cumin(jeera)powder, black pepper, saffron (1tsp), red chilli powder, green cardamom(illaiche) powder, green chilli, salt and cook the ingredients.

Now add ginger garlic paste and lemon juice and cook all the ingredients well

Add water and fried onions in to the meat, cover it for 15 mins to let it cook well.

In another pan boil the rice (do not boil the rice fully).

Take another pan and add a layer of rice in the pan.

Cover the rice with the meat.

Add another layer of rice covering the meat.

Sprinkle ground cashew’s and almonds, kewra, pinch of saffron(not necessary), and brown grinded onions.

Cover the biryani with a tight lid and let the rice fully cook.

Dish out in a platter and serve it with raita and salad of your choice.