Kofta Pulao Biryani by Shireen Anwar

Ingredients:

• For Kofta:
• Mince 350 gms
• Ginger garlic 1 tsp heaved
• All spice 1 tsp
• Nutmeg quarter tsp grinded
• Maize q tsp grinded
• Chili powder 1 tsp heaved
• Onion raw grinded 1
• Brown onion 2 tbsp grinded
• Poppy seeds 1 tbsp roasted and grinded
• Gera, 1 tbsp grinded roasted
• Salt 1 tsp heaved
• Ingredients for masala:
• Ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp
• Chili powder 1.5 tsp
• Brown onion half cup
• Salt half tsp heaved
• Yogurt 1 cup
• Oil half cup
• All spice 1 tsp
• Kewra water 1 tbsp
• Yellow color a pinch

Method:

1. for masala:
2. Grind together poppy seeds and roasted gram.
3. Marinate mince with ginger garlic chili powder salt all spice both the grinded onions and the grounded masala with nutmeg and maize.
4. Put all in the chopper with mince and grind once again.
5. Make tiny balls, out 4 glasses of water in a pan with 1 tsp slat and 1 bay leaf.
6. When water starts boiling add the koftas in the water.
7. Cook for 10 mins. Take out the koftas from the water and strain the stalk.
8. Remove the bay leaf and add in your soaked rice with half tsp of whole cumin.
9. Cover and cook rice till done.
10. Keep aside.
11. Method:
12. Heat oil add brown onion with ginger garlic salt chili powder and yogurt.
13. Fry well add koftas.
14. Cook for 10 mins.
15. Now give layers like we do for biryani.
16. Put cooked rice when kofta mixture again rice sprinkle with kewra water mixed with yellow color.
17. Leave it on dum for 15mins. Mix and serve.