Malabari Lamb Biryani Recipe

Heat oil in a pressure cooker. Add 1/2 of the sliced onions and fry, till golden brown. Keep aside.

Add fennel to the same oil. Once it splutters, add the remaing onions and cashews and fry till soft.

Then add tomatoes, ground paste, turmeric powder, pepper powder, curd, mint and cilantro and saute, till the oil starts to separate.

Add lamb and cook with the lid on, till almost done. Add salt and keep aside.

Boil rice in stock and whole spices till ¾ done. Drain and keep aside.

Grease an oven proof dish with a little clarified butter. Spread half the cooked lamb and layer with half the rice. Pour 2 tbsp of butter over it and sprinkle some fried onion. Layer with the remaing lamb and rice followed by butter and fried onions. Cover with a tight fitting lid.

Pre heat the oven to 200F and bake for 20 mins.

Serve hot