Ambur Style Mutton Biryani – one of the most famous Biryani in Tamil Nadu from Ambur. Ambur is a town in the Vellore District of Tamil Nadu, India. It is located on the banks of the Palar River on the Chennai-Bangalore National Highway.
Ambur Style Mutton Biryani is cooked in gigantic containers over wood-fired stoves, the crucial aspect behind the biryani’s consistency is the ‘dum’ — a procedure where it’s removed from the fire and covered with a lid over which hot coal is placed. The recipe consists of the usual ingredients that go into biryani — onions, tomatoes, spices such as cardamom, cloves, and cinnamon, ginger and garlic paste (ground separately to incorporate each ingredient’s flavor), red chili paste, salt, rice (par boiled) and meat.
Whenever we go for vacation to India we never miss tasting this biryani in Ambur. This biryani is generally made with seeraga samba rice rather than basmati rice. This biryani consists of mild flavors. It turned out exactly same as we get in Biryani hotels. Also, I made this Dum Biryani using a normal pressure pan. Now let us see how to prepare this Ambur Style Mutton Biryani.
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- 2 Cups Seeraga samba rice
- 500 gms Mutton
- 2 Onions
- 1 Tomato
- 1 tbsp Garlic Paste
- 1 tbsp Ginger Paste
- 1/4 cup Mint leaves finely chopped
- 1/4 cup Coriander leaves finely chopped
- 6-7 Dry Red Chili
- 1/4 cup Yoghurt/Curd
- 1 inch Cinnamon stick/Pattai
- 1/2 Lemon juice
- 5 Clove/Lavangam
- 2 Cardamom/Elachi
- salt to taste
- 3 tbsp oil
- Slit onions length wise. Finely chop tomatoes. Soak dry red chili in hot water for 10 mins and grind to smooth paste. Thoroughly wash Mutton using turmeric, salt, and water. Chop mutton to small pieces. Soak seeraga samba rice in water for half an hour. Wash it thoroughly, drain water and set aside. For one cup rice add 2 cups water while cooking.
- Heat a pressure pan add oil. Once oil gets heated add cinnamon stick, cloves, and cardamom. Let it crackle. Then add 2 tsp of onion and saute well. Then add garlic paste and saute till raw smell goes. Then add ginger paste and saute well. Then add ground dry red chili paste and saute till raw smell goes.
- Now add remaining onion and saute until translucent. Then add tomatoes, mint leaves, and coriander leaves.
- Saute till oil separates. Then add mutton pieces, yogurt, and mix thoroughly. Add 1/2 cup of water and mix well.
- Place lid on top and cook for 30 mins. By now Mutton should be cooked well. Now add 3 and 1/2 cups of water(as we added 1/2 cup earlier while boiling mutton) and add required amount of salt.
- Mix well all and add soaked seeraga samba rice, squeeze lemon, mix well and slow cook while pressure pan is open. After 5 mins the rice absorbs all water. At this stage place a tawa on the burner. Above tawa place pressure pan.
- Now close the lid, keep whistle and cook for 20 more minutes. Also, reduce the flame to medium low. As the pressure pan is on the tawa and as we are indirectly heating the pressure pan you won't get any whistle. After 20 mins switch off the flame. Let the pressure release completely. Then open the lid and you can find the rice is cooked perfectly. Now gently mix it with a spatula or a fork without breaking the rice. Delicious Ambur Style Mutton Biryani is ready.
- For this recipe use only seeraga samba rice.
- Rice and water proportion are 1:2. If the rice is new rice then add 1:1& 1/2 accordingly.
- Soak dry red chili in hot water for 10 mins and grind to smooth paste.
- Grind ginger and garlic paste separately.
- If you want biryani to be spicier add more chilies while grinding.
- After rice absorbs all water, place an iron tawa on the stove and then place pressure pan above that, close lid, place whistle and cook for 20 mins. As the heat comes from iron tawa and transfers to pressure pan you will not get any whistle. This way dum is maintained.
- Instead of pressure cooker if you have wide and a deep bowl, you can use that too.
You may also like Chettinad Chicken Biryani, Easy Chicken Biryani, Vegetable Biryani, Tomato Biryani, Coconut Milk Pulao also known as Guska Biryani.
Delicious and Mouthwatering Ambur Style Mutton Biryani is ready to relish.
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