Fish briyani

Ingredients:


1/2 kg - Fish
5 nos - Onion
3 nos - Tomato
2 tsp - Garlic paste
2 tsp - Ginger paste
1 tsp - Green chilly paste
1 tsp - Garam masala powder
4 tsp - Curd
1 cup - Coriander leaves
1/4 cup - Mint leaves
1/2 cup - Ghee
4 tsp - Lime juice

For marinade:
1 tsp - Turmeric powder
2 tsp - Red chilly powder
2 tsp - Ginger-garlic paste
1/2 tsp - Fennel seeds powder

For rice:
2 Cups - Basumati rice
2 nos - Cardamom
3 nos - Cloves
2 nos - Cinnamon
Turmeric powder

Method:

Marinate fish fillets with turmeric powder, red chilly powder, ginger-garlic paste and fennel seeds powder for one hour in a refrigerator. Fry the marinated fish fillets in ghee. Remove them to a plate and heat up the same pan. Add onion and fry, till it turns golden brown. Add ginger-garlic-chilly paste and fry for two minutes. Add tomato, garam masala, salt, coriander leaves and mint leaves and cook for a few minutes. Add curd. Put the fried fish fillets in this masala.

For rice:

Boil water in a vessel. Add salt, turmeric powder, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and ghee. Cook rice until it is done and drain. Make sure the rice doesn’t get sticky. Heat a little ghee in a pan. Put a little of cooked rice and spread one tsp of lime juice over it. Put one layer of the fish masala above that and repeat the process till the rice and masala are over. Take care not to break the fish fillets.