Ingredients:
Basmati rice - 2 cups
Green Jack fruit - 250 gms
Ghee - 3-4 tbsp
Oil to deep fry the jackfruit
Ginger pieces - 1 tbsp
Biryani Masala - 1 tbsp
Lemon juice - 2 tbsp
Rose water - 1 tbsp
Milk - 1 cup
Saffron - few strands
Salt to taste
Spices:
Cinnamon - 1" piece
Cloves - 2
Cardamom - 2
Nutmeg - 2-3 strands
Method:
Basmati rice - 2 cups
Green Jack fruit - 250 gms
Ghee - 3-4 tbsp
Oil to deep fry the jackfruit
Ginger pieces - 1 tbsp
Biryani Masala - 1 tbsp
Lemon juice - 2 tbsp
Rose water - 1 tbsp
Milk - 1 cup
Saffron - few strands
Salt to taste
Spices:
Cinnamon - 1" piece
Cloves - 2
Cardamom - 2
Nutmeg - 2-3 strands
Method:
- Cut and peel the jackfruit, discarding the seeds and cut into medium sized pieces. Sprinkle salt on the pieces and leave aside for 5 minutes.
- Heat the oil and deep fry the jack fruit pieces, a few at atime till golden brown. Drain out the oil and allow to cool. Once the pieces are cool, shred these with your fingers to get strands. Keep aside.
- Tie the spices in muslin cloth, heat water in degchi and put the muslin cloth together with the rice.
- Cook the rice till it is cooked, not over cooked and the grains should be long and separate. Cool the rice.
- Divide the rice into 3 portions.
- In one portion, mix the lemon juice.
- For the second portion , mix the biryani masala and in the third portion add the saffron which has been soaked in milk - to give this portion saffron colour.
- Take a large heavy bottomed pan make the layers for the biryani.
- First portion of the rice with lemon flavour, add some of the fried jackfruit and a few pieces of ginger.
- Next add a portion of rice with biryani masala and top it with a portion of saffron rice.
- Repeat these layers till all the rice and jackfruit are used up.
- Pour over the ghee, rose water and milk on the sides of the pan till all of it seeps into the biryani.
- Cover the pan with a foil or a lid.
- Place a tawa on low flame, place the pan with biryani on this tawa and allow the biryani to cook on a very low flame for 40-45 minutes.
- Serve with raita
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