Malabar Prawns Biriyani Recipe

Malabar Prawns Biriyani...


Malabar Prawns biriyani is one of my favourite among the malabar dishes. I love to have this biriyani with cocunut chutney(using coconut ,corriander leaves,lemon juice,etc)  , cucumber salad and dates pulingary and some pickle Wow.. its so tasty ....

I tried this dish many times earlier and sometimes it turned out really superb , But I never noted the exact recipe . Last thursday , I tried this malabar prawns biriyani by myself and it was so yummy , and this time I noticed the recipe too, so that I can share it with u all...

 Ingredients

For Ghee Rice

Rice (Neriyari - Jeerakashala/Kaima ) - 1 kg
Water - 10cups ( 2cup water for 1cup rice)
Salt -as required
Ghee - 7tbspn
Sliced Onion  - 1 Large
cashews - 1 handful
Kismis- as required
Cardamom-4
Cloves -6
lime juice - 1/2 tbspn
Garam Masala - to sprinkle in layers

For the Masala

Prawns -     500gm
Onion -500gm (8 medium)
Garlic - 3tbs (made into Paste) / 30cloves
Ginger(3'' piece)  Paste -  2tbs
Green Chilli (small) - 13
Tomatoes- 2 medium
Pepper powder - 1tspn
Garam Masala - 1tspn
Lime juice - 1tbs
Curd -2tbs
White kaskas - 1tspn
Coconut - 2tbspn
Salt - as required
turmeric powder - 1/4tspn
coconut oil-8tbspn

Now Lets see how to make the prawns masala......

1. Clean and wash the prawns and put it in a vessel to boil it with turmeric powder (1/4 tspn),little water (only 2tspn is enough) and salt as required.When it gets boiled and the water contents goes , add little coconut oil(1tbspn) and keep it aside.
2. Grind the green chillies, garlic ,ginger into a paste. Add the turmeric powder while grinding the mixture.
3. Heat a non stick sauce pan and  add the oil .When hot , add the chopped onions along with salt  and cook it until the raw smell goes . Then add the grinded mixture and again saute it for 5-8 minutes .
4. Then add the prawns ans saute it again .Then add the chopped tomatoes. Cook until the tomatoes becomes soft .
5. Grind the coconut , white kaskas and curd together into a fine paste. You can omit this step if the ingrediants are not available.But this adds more taste to your masala.
6. Now add the above mixture and mix it well with the masala .Then add lime juice,pepper powder, garam masala .
7. Now you can smell the aroma of our yummy prawns masala. Add the mint leaves , chopped coriander\

leaves etc and cover it and cook it for 5 minutes .Then Keep it aside.       

 Now we can prepare the ghee rice .....

1. Wash the rice and strain the excess water in it .
2.Boil the water in a vessel.
3. Heat oil in a large pan .When it gets hot , add sliced onion , when its colour changes to golden colour , add the cashews and kismis and take it from the oil and keep it aside.
4. Add the spices like cardamom, cloves etc and saute it for sometime , then add the rice into this oil and saute it for 5 minutes then add the boiled  water , salt,lime juice etc and boil it until rice gets cooked .Mix little rose water with yellow food colour and add it into the cooked rice . Then Keep it aside.
5. Now we can layer the rice and masala alternatively,garnish the top layer with fried onions ,cashews , and corriander leaves and Heat a bottom thick pan , and keep the rice pan on it and place some weight above the covering of the large pan and keep it for 5 minutes. Deliciuos dum malabar prawns biriyani is ready....