Ingredients:
- Potatoes ½ kg
- Chopped Mint Leaves 1 bunch
- Chopped Tomatoes 1
- Chopped Onion 4
- Lemons 4
- Chopped Green Chilies 8
- Yellow food color as required
- Fresh Milk 1 cup
- Oil/ Clarified Butter 1 cup
- Rice 2 ½ cup
- Nigella Seeds 1 tsp
- Red Chili 1 tsp
- Roasted Cumin Powder 1 tbsp
- Coriander Seeds
- Turmeric ½ tsp
- Salt to taste
To Boil Rice:
- Green Chilies 3
- Black Pepper 4
- Small Cardamom 4
- Chopped Mint leaves few Leaves
- Salt to taste
Method:
- Boil ½ kg potatoes and cut it into cubes.
- Heat oil and deep fry them.
- Add in chopped onion and fry them till golden brown. Then take them out.
- Add in potatoes in the same oil, add in 1 tsp turmeric, red chili, crushed black pepper, roasted cumin, nigella seeds, chopped green chilies, mint leaves, salt and tamarind paste. Cook it on a low flame. Simmer it.
- Boil some 2 ½ cup of rice with chopped mint leaves, green chilies, black pepper, small cardamom, salt and some water.
- Rice the pan, add in a layer of rice.
- Add in fried and chopped onion.
- Add in the remaining rice and 1 cup milk with yellow food color.
- Add in chopped mint leaves and lemon juice and simmer.
- Achari Aloo Biryani is reday to serve.
