- Prep: 30 min
- Cook: 45 min
- Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients
For Mince
250 gm duck leg, boneless
1 onion
1-inch ginger
4-5 garlic, whole
1/4 cup fresh coriander
1 tsp oil
1 tsp ghee
For Rice
1 cup basmati rice
1 tsp black cumin
4-5 peppercorn
2-3 cloves
1 bay leaf
1 cinnamon
Salt to taste
1 tbsp coriander
1 tbsp mint
For Biryani Jhol
1 cinnamon stick
2 black cardamom
2 green cardamom
4-5 peppercorns
2-3 cloves
2 bay leaves
1 mace 1
1 cup brown onion
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 cup curd
1 tsp green chilli, julienne
1/2 inch, ginger julienne
1/2 tsp mace powder
1 tsp cardamom powder
1/4 cup saffron milk
1/2 cup mint, chopped
1 cup brown onion
Directions
1. Take the whole duck and debone the leg.
2. Make a boneless leg mince with ginger, garlic, coriander, and onion. And keep aside.
3. Make round koftas and poach them in water.
4. Then cook rice with whole garam masala, bay leaf, peppercorn, clove, black cumin, cinnamon, coriander,
and pudina in the same poaching water.
For Biryani
1. In a cooking pot heat ghee and oil.
2. Then add bay leaf, peppercorn, cinnamon, mace, and cloves, and allow them to crackle.
3. Then add brown onion and ginger garlic paste and cook for a minute.
4. Then add coriander powder, red chilli powder, turmeric, and salt.
5. Next, add curd and bhuno.
6. Then add green chilli and ginger julienne, mace and cardamom powder.
7. Then add rice water and poached kofta and cook for 2 minutes.
8. Remove 1/2 of kofta gravy and put 1/2 cooked rice.
9. Then pour kofta gravy over rice and finish with saffron milk, brown onion, and chopped mint.
10. Cook for 10 minutes on dum cooking.
11. After 10 minutes, serve hot duck kofta biryani garnished with brown onion.
