Prawns Biryani Recipe

Here is a delicious and easy Prawns Biryani recipe. This recipe consists of three parts – making the rice, making the gravy and making the garnishing. Then the rice and gravy are layered out and garnished with fried onion and cashew nuts. A truly mouth-watering affair 🙂

Our regular readers will know by now how much we love prawns. The number of prawns recipes on the blog proves that. Also, as I have mentioned in my ealier posts, my family loves Biryani. My hubby and I have always been Biryani fans, but the best part is that my 3 year old too loves Biryani now. I often get to hear from her “Mamma, I want to eat Biryani today”. And of course, my hubby nods in unison and Biryani is on the menu for that night 🙂 This time it was to be a combination of two of our favorites – Prawns and Biryani. Hence I came up with this Prawns Biryani recipe.

This Prawns Biryani recipe is quite easy to make and uses simple ingredients. Hope you like it as much as we did 🙂

Here is the step by step Prawns biryani recipe with pictures:

Serves: 3-4
Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:

For  Gravy:
Prawns:  1 and 1/2 cup shelled and deveined
Onions: 2 medium sliced
Tomatoes: 2 medium chopped
Ginger Paste: 1 tsp
Garlic Paste: 1 tsp
Curd: 2-3 tbsp
Chilli Powder: 2 tsp
Biryani Masala: 1 tsp
Turmeric Powder: 1/4 tsp
Ghee: 1 tbsp
Salt: to taste

For Rice
Basmati Rice: 1 and 1/2 cups
Cinnamon: 1 inch
Cardamom: 2
Cloves: 3
Salt: to taste

For Garnishing
Onion: 2 sliced
Cashew nuts: 1/2  cup broken into pieces
Ghee: 1/4 cup

Method of Preparation:

To make rice:

1. Boil around 5-6 cups of water. Add cardamom, cloves ,cinnamon and salt.
2. Add rice to the boiling water and let cook till done. Drain and keep aside.

To make Gravy:

1. Heat ghee in a pan and sauté the onion till translucent. Add ginger garlic paste and sauté for a minute. Add tomatoes and sauté.

2. Add chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt and biryani masala and mix well.
3. Add prawns and saute for 1-2 minutes.

4. Add curd and 3/4 cup of water. Cover and let the gravy cook till it becomes dry and prawns are cooked.

To make Garnishing:

1. Heat oil in a pan. Fry onion till golden brown.  Drain on absorbent paper.
2. Fry cashew nuts till golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper.

Final Steps:

1. Grease a baking tray. Arrange a layer of gravy on the tray.
2. Arrange a layer of rice on the prawn gravy. Pour in a little ghee.

3. Repeat with another layer of prawn gravy and rice and ghee.
4. Finally arrange rice as the final layer and garnish with fried cashew nuts and onions.
5. Seal the tray  with aluminium foil.
6. Cook in a pre-heated oven at 170 degrees Celsius  for 10 minutes. Serve hot.

Note: If you do not want to use oven for final steps, you can also do it on gas top. Place a heavy bottomed flat pan on the gas flame. Place the utensil with layers of rice and gravy on the heavy bottomed pan with closed lid. Cook on low flame for 10 mins.

For all the Biryani recipes on this blog, you can click here: Biryani.

You can also check out some of our other prawn recipes if interested. We have prawn recipes in all categories on our blog – Prawns Appetizers, Prawn Curries, Goan cuisine (Prawns Dangar, Goan Prawns Curry, Prawns Sukhe being popular ones), Prawns Rice Dishes. For all prawn recipes, visit: Prawns Recipes.

Prawns Biryani Recipe

Prawns Biryani Recipe

 

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Prep time

30 mins

Cook time

30 mins

Total time

1 hour

 

A delicious and easy Prawns Biryani recipe. This recipe consists of three parts – making the rice, making the gravy and making the garnishing. Then the rice and gravy are layered out and garnished with fried onion and cashew nuts. A truly mouth-watering affair

Author: YourHungerStop

Recipe type: Main

Serves: 3-4

Ingredients

• Prawns: 1 and ½ cup shelled and deveined
• Onions: 2 medium sliced
• Tomatoes: 2 medium chopped
• Ginger Paste: 1 tsp
• Garlic Paste: 1 tsp
• Curd: 2-3 tbsp
• Chilli Powder: 2 tsp
• Biryani Masala: 1 tsp
• Turmeric Powder: ¼ tsp
• Ghee: 1 tbsp
• Salt: to taste
• Basmati Rice: 1 and ½ cups
• Cinnamon: 1 inch
• Cardamom: 2
• Cloves: 3
• Onion: 2 sliced
• Cashew nuts: ½ cup broken into pieces
• Ghee: ¼ cup for garnishing

Instructions

1. Boil around 5-6 cups of water. Add cardamom, cloves ,cinnamon and salt.
2. Add rice to the boiling water and let cook till done. Drain and keep aside.
3. Heat ghee in a pan and sauté the onion till translucent. Add ginger garlic paste and sauté for a minute. Add tomatoes and sauté.
4. Add chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt and Biryani masala and mix well.
5. Add prawns and saute for 1-2 minutes.
6. Add curd and ¾ cup of water. Cover and let the gravy cook till it becomes dry and prawns are cooked.
7. In a deep bottomed pan, heat oil in a pan. Fry onion till golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper.
8. Fry cashew nuts till golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper.
9. Grease a baking tray. Arrange a layer of gravy on the tray.
10. Arrange a layer of rice on the prawn gravy. Pour in a little ghee.
11. Repeat with another layer of prawn gravy and rice and ghee.
12. Finally arrange rice as the final layer and garnish with fried cashew nuts and onions.
13. Seal the tray with aluminium foil.
14. Cook in a pre-heated oven at 170 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. Serve hot.

Notes

If you do not want to use oven for final steps, you can also do it on gas top. Place a heavy bottomed flat pan on the gas flame. Place the utensil with layers of rice and gravy on the heavy bottomed pan with closed lid. Cook on low flame for 10 mins.

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