Mutton Yakhni Pulao

Yakhni pulao is an easy delicious flavorful mutton rice recipe. Try it and enjoy your delicious meal.

Ingredients:

1. Mutton-500 gm
2. Long grain basmati rice-500 gm
3. Ginger chopped-1 tbsp
4. Garlic chopped-1 tbsp
5. Whole spices-cinnamon, cardamom, clove, fennel seeds, cumin seeds, bay leaf, pepper cones and coriander seeds.
6. Ghee-2 tbsp
7. Onion-1 large
8. Ginger garlic paste-1 tbsp
9. Almonds-1/4 cup
10. Fried onions-to garnish
11. Mint leaves-to garnish

Preparation:

• Soak almonds in hot water for 15 minutes.
• After that peel off it's skin and add in to a blender.
• Puree it by adding enough water. Keep it aside.
• Add chopped ginger, garlic and whole spices in to a cotton cloth and tie it like a potli.
• In a pressure cooker add mutton pieces, potli, enough salt and water to cook.
• Cook until mutton cooked. 
• Open it and remove the potli. Squeeze it well to extract the maximum flavor.
• Now separate the mutton pieces and stock water. Keep aside.
• Wash and soak basmati rice in water for 20 minutes.
• Drain it well.
• In a wide pan; heat ghee.
• Add few whole spices followed by onion sliced.
• Suate well to golden in color.
• Add ginger garlic paste and saute until raw smell goes off.
• Add almond paste and  cooked mutton pieces; mix well.
• Add drained basmati rice.
• Add hot water (including the mutton stock) double the quantity of rice.
• Add enough salt and mix well.
• Cover the lid and cook until all the water get's absorbed and rice cooked perfectly.
• Serve by garnishing on top with fried onions and mint leaves.