INGREDIENTS:

1 kg basmati rice
750 gm mutton
2 large onion (finely chopped)
1 large onion (finely chopped and fried golden brown )
½ bulb of garlic[lehsun] (chopped)
1 small piece of ginger[adarak] (chopped )
1 tsp garam masala
salt to taste
1 ¼ liter water
1 stick of cinnamon[daalchini]
2 large spoons of oil
5-6 cloves[long]
3 cardamom[ilaichi]
8-10 seeds of black pepper[saboot kali mirch]
2-3 cassia (tejpaat)


METHOD:

Soak rice for ½ hour. Wash mutton thoroughly.

Boil the motton in the pressure cooker along with chopped onion, little ginger & garlic, little salt, 3 cloves, cinnamon, cardamom. Boil for 15 minutes.

After boiling sieve the mutton pieces from broth and fry them in oil till light golden and keep them aside .

Stain the water in the sieve and crush the boiled onion pieces to the maximum. Keep this stock aside .

Add little oil and garam masala in the cooker, 2-3 leaves of cassia, fried onion, finely chopped garlic, ginger. Then add crushed cloves cardmom and black pepper. Fry them on slow fire till oil gets separated . Then add fried mutton pieces and rice into it. Fry with masala for 5-10 minutes then add only that much stock (water) which you feel will be required to cook the rice. Boil it on full flame without covering. After the first boil close the lid of the cooker and cook till first whistle.

Garnish with fried onion and serve hot.