Kashmiri Biriyaani:

Ingredients:

For meat marination:
Lambs meat 250 grams(with bone)
Milk 1/2 cup
Ghee 1/4 cup
Papaaya fruit diced 1/2 cup
Salt
Cracked black pepper 1/2 spoon
Nutmeg powder 1/4 spoon
Saffron 1-2 pinch
Ginger-garlic paste 1 spoon.

Mix all the above ingredients together and set aside for atleast 2 whole hours.

For biriyaani:
Long grain rice 1 cup
Black cardamon 3 pods
Green cardamon 3 pods
Cloves 3
Cinnamon 3 sticks
Bay leaves 3
Onion 5 thinly sliced
Green chilies 6 slitted
Ginger garlic paste 1 spoon
Mint leaves 1 cup
Lemon juice from 2 fruit
Salt
Ghee 1 cup.

Method:

In a large wok, heat ghee. Fry thinly sliced onions till golden-reddish brown. Transfer them into seperate bowl.

In the same wok, splatter your spices one by one. Cloves, cinnamon, semi-crushed green and black cardamon, bay leaves.

When they are fragrant, add chilies. Let them turn color too. Followed by mint and ginger-garlic paste. Fry them real good over medium heat. Now turn in your marinated meat.

Fry them over medium heat....till its protein denatures......meat should turn opaque. Now add enough water, cover and cook. It may take time.

When the meat is tender....there should be no water left behind. Transfer them to a bowl. Make sure the meat is cooked and at the same time....no extra moisture in it.

In a large wok, heat ghee. Fry washed rice till it coats well with ghee and turns into golden color. Then add enough salt and lemon juice. Add 1:1 1/2 cup of water. Cover and cook over medium heat. Lemon juce and ghee will keep the rice well seperated and shiny in texture.

When the rice is done......mix them without breaking the rice. The rice will be 3/4 done with this water actually. Just dont worry.

Now.....heat the wok, spread first layer with fried onion, followed by rice and then by meat. Repeat the same order....until you have your reserve. Cover and cook over simmer heat for atleast half an hour to one hour.

Mix them just before serving. Serve hot as main dish. Choose your own side dish....general korma or raita would be best choice.