Best Hyderabadi Yakhni Pulao for Eid 🐐Hyderabadi Pulao Biryani Recipe By Recipe Hub With Lubna

mutton

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: vegetables

Chicken is leaner and vegetables provide a vegetarian option.

ghee

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: butter

Olive oil is healthier and butter is often more accessible.

For the yakhni, use mutton and sauté whole spices in oil for 30 seconds.

Add ginger and garlic, then add tamarind, dried plums, and chopped tomato.

Add ground green chilies and sauté the mixture well.

Once the spices are sautéed, add the reserved mutton from the yakhni.

Incorporate coriander powder, cumin powder, nutmeg, mace, and 1/2 teaspoon salt, then mix in yogurt.

Sauté the mixture well to enhance the flavor.

Add the yakhni and bring to a boil on high flame.

Once boiling, add soaked basmati rice and mix everything together.

Cook on high flame until the yakhni water starts to dry up, stirring occasionally.

Sprinkle mint, coriander, green chilies, and add fried onion and lemon juice.

Continue cooking on high flame until the yakhni water is almost dry, then add yellow food color and 2 tablespoons of ghee or butter.

Cover and cook on high flame for 2 minutes, then reduce to low flame for 15-18 minutes.

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