Thalassery Fish Dum Biriyani | Thalassery Special Meen Biriyani

How to prepare Thalassery Fish Dum Biriyani | Authentic Thalassery Special Meen Biriyani?

Thalassery Fish Dum Biriyani | Authentic Thalassery Special Meen Biriyani

Ingredients:-

• Jeera Rice – 3 Cup
• Seer fish/Ayakkoora – 500 Gram
• Onion – 5 finely chopped
• Tomato – 2
• Green chilli (3), Ginger(15), Garlic (2 Inch) crushed
• Turmeric Power – 1 ½ Teaspoon
• Chilli powder – 1 ½ Tablespoon
• Coriander Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Pepper Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Thalassery Biriyani Masala – 1 Teaspoon
• Cardamom - 4
• Cloves - 5
• Cinnamon – small piece
• Mace – 1 strand
• Fennel Seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
• Lemon Juice – 1
• Coriander and Mint leaves as needed
• Salt as needed
• Ghee as needed
• Cashew nuts & raisins as needed

 

Preparation:-

• Marinate the fish by adding salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder and a little lemon juice.
• Keep one big vessel to prepare the biriyani in a stove and add 1 Tbsp oil and 2 Tbsp ghee
• Add rice into the vessel and stir well until the rice starts breaking.
• Add water (4 ½ Cup [1 ½ Cup water for 1 Cup rice] into it
• Add salt to taste into the rice and stir well
• Once the water start boiling add spices and lemon juice
• Once it starts boiling close the vessel with a lid and keep a weight on top of the vessel.
• After 5 min switch off the stove and keep it aside.
• Heat a pan and pour oil into it.
• Transfer fish into the pan and fry on both sides
• Heat oil in a pan and add finely chopped onion and sauté well by adding a little salt
• Add ginger, garlic and green chilli paste into the pan and continue sautéing
• Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder and sauté  
• Add tomato into the onion and sauté
• Add pepper powder into the pan and mix it well
• Add Thalassery special biriyani masala and sauté  
• Add turmeric water, fried cashew nuts and raisins
• Add coriander and mint leaves and also sprinkle thalassery biriyani masala
• Repeat the layering
• Add bista (fried onion) on top of the rice
• Heat a dosa pan, place the cooker on top of the pan, and close the cooker with whistle.  Keep the flame low for 10 min.  Once the cooker lid become warm switch off the stove
• Open the cooker once the cooker lid become warm
• Thalassery Special Fish Biriyani is ready to serve!!!

Cheers!!!

Minu