Malabar chemmeen biriyani / Prawn biriyani Kerala style

Again with a delicious flavourful biriyani recipe.it was a super hit in my home and I served with onion raita.Heard that coconut chutney will do wonders with prawn biriyani! But I never got a chance to taste it.You can use any kind of prawns for this biriyani.


Other dum biriyani recipes are :

• Thalassery chicken biriyani
• chicken biriyani with fried chicken
• Egg biriyani

Ingredients :

Serving size : 4-6

For rice :

• Basmati rice : 3 cups
• Water : 4.5 cups
• Onion sliced : 1/2 cup
• Cinnamon : 1 stick
• Cardamom : 5
• Clove : 4
• Lemon juice : 2 tspn
• Salt : As required
• Ghee : 1/4 cup

For masala :

• Prawns : 1/2 kg
• Chilly powder : 2 tspn
• Turmeric powder : 1/4 tspn
• Coriander powder : 1 tspn
• Garam masala powder : 1 tspn
• Onion sliced  : 3 big
• Tomato chopped : 1 big
• Coriander leaves chopped  : 1/2 cup
• Mint leaves chopped : 1/2 cup
• Ginger : 2' piece
• Garlic : 8-10 cloves
• Green chilly : 2
• Salt

To garnish :

• Fried cashews : 10 
• Fried raisins : 10
• Ghee : 1 tspn 
• Garam masala : 1/2 tspn
• Coriander leaves chopped : 1/2 cup
• Mint leaves : few

Method:

Rice :

• Wash and soak basmati rice for 20 minutes.Drain it and keep aside.
• Heat a pressure cooker with ghee.
• Add cinnamon cloves and cardamom.Fry it for few seconds.Now add sliced onion.
• Saute it well 

• Add drained rice.
• Fry it for few seconds and add 4.5 cups of water.
• Now add lemon juice and salt.Mix it well and close the cooker .
• Keep the cooker in high flame for one whistle.Switch off the flame and when the pressure subsides open it.

Masala:

• Marinate the cleaned prawns with turmeric powder salt and chilly powder.Keep it in refrigerator 30 minutes
• Now heat a pan with oil.Add marinated prawns and fry it.Drain it and keep aside.
• To the same pan add sliced onion and saute it well.Add salt too

• Now add chopped tomato and saute it again
• Make a paste of ginger garlic and green chilly and add it in to the sauteed onion
• Mix it well and saute it till it leaves the raw smell.

• Now add garam masala and coriander powder to it.Mix it well
• Add chopped coriander and mint leaves.
• Add fried prawns to it.Mix it well.
• Add 1/4 cups of water to the masala and cook it in low flame for few minutes.
• Check for salt.Keep it aside.

How to make dum:

• This time I ued my pressure cooker to dum 
• Grease your biriyani pot /cooker with ghee
• Add one layer of prawn masala
• Next add one layer of rice

• Now add chopped coriander and mint leaves,fried cashew and kismis and finally fried onion too
• Sprinkle some garam masala too
• Repeat the process for remaining rice and prawn masala.
• Finally on the top add some mint leaves too
• Close the cooker with its lid without weight (if you are using biriyani pot seal it with maida Refer :how to do dum )
• Keep it on a hot thawa.
• Simmer the stove and dum it for 20 minutes.
• YUmmy prawn biriyani is ready !!!! Serve it with raita pickle and papad

Note :

• You may use jeerakashala rice for this biriyani
• By mistake before adding spice powders i added mint and coriander leaves.