Nasi Briyani Kambing

During the xmas holiday yesterday, hubby thought of cooking the Nasi Briyani Kambing.  Wow.. what a good idea!  We usually indulge on nasi briyani from restaurants nearby.  Not a big fan but sometimes its a good change from our normal menu.

We then went on to buy the ingredients and I didnt know its so easy to make.  Not as hard as I thought, all because we were using the Briyani paste from a packet!!  Hey.. life is all about fast paced and simple processes. Its so easy, hehehe..  The briyani paste is ready made and you could be an expert on your first try!  The taste was ok, and we could do better next time, a bit on the hot side too.  So it was all about Nasi Briyani at our household yesterday...

The ingredients:

• Beef or Chicken (in this case, we opted for Mutton, yumm...) - 500gram
• Basmatti Rice - 500gram 
• Onion - 5 medium slices
• Tomatoes - 300gram (chopped)
• Potatoes - 250gram (peeled and halved)
• Ginger - 25gram (Chopped)
• Garlic Paste - 25gram
• Plain Yogurt - 200gram
• Ghee - 175-250gram
• Shan Bombay - One packet

The directions:

•  Fry onions, in hot ghee, Add tomatoes and fry until oil separates.
• Add mutton, garlic, ginger, potatoes, yogurt and Shan Bombay mix.
• Fry for 15 minutes then add 1-2 cups of water and cook on low heat until mutton is tender.
• Then increase heat and stir fry until oil separates from the gravy.
• Separately, put 12 glasses of hot water and 3 tablespoons of salt and soak the rice in it.
• Then boil the rice until its half cooked.
• Remove from heat and thoroughly drain the water.
• Spread the cooked meat and curry over two layers.
• Cover the pot and cook on low heat until rice fully cooked.

And, taddaa... our Nasi Briyani is done!

The garlic paste

The diced tomatoes

The mutton

The potatoes

The Ghee

The red onions

Now onto the cooking!

Fry the onions on the hot ghee

Then we added the tomatoes

Wait for the tomatoes to blend and the oil separates

Adding the mutton

Then the potatoes

half way there

Its time for the yogurt

After we mixed the briyani paste

The rice addedd to the mix

My Masterchef in action!

The finished product - Nasi Briyani Kambing

This is the Briyani paste we used

We will try again next time...