Flavorful Memon-Style Mutton Yakhni Pulao: My Family Favorite Dish ( Pressure cooker pulao)
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Flavorful Memon-Style Mutton Yakhni Pulao: My Family Favorite Dish ( Pressure cooker pulao)
1st Aug, 2024 By : Gulnaz
Mutton yakhni pulao is a dish that almost everyone loves because it uses very few spices and has a flavour similar to biryani. However, while biryani requires many spices, pulao's taste is enhanced with just a few spices. You can make this yakhni pulao with either chicken or mutton. I am making it with mutton today, but you can use this recipe with chicken or vegetables if you prefer.
Although Yakhni pulao can be eaten on its own, its taste is elevated when served with kachumber, raita or bhuna mutton or chicken. However, if you don't want to eat it with these, you can simply enjoy it with some pickles, which also tastes great with pulao.
Everyone has their way of making Yakhni pulao, but the recipe I am sharing today is my mother-in-law's recipe. It is a family favourite, and whenever there is a small function or festival at home, it is considered essential to make it because the table feels incomplete without it.
Yakhni pulao History
It is said that once the Afghan king saw that his soldiers were exhausted and had become weak, so he called his cook and asked him to prepare a dish by mixing meat, rice, and vegetables that would fill the soldiers with strength. Since then, this yakhni pulao began to be made and became popular among people.
Ingredients For Yakhni pulao
Mutton - Always use meat with bones to make pulao, as it greatly enhances the taste.
Tomato or Yoghurt - Some people use tomatoes and yoghurt, which makes it taste very good, but in today's recipe, I have not used either tomatoes or yoghurt. However, you can use them if you wish.
Green chilli - I have used both spicy and mildly spicy green chillies in this recipe, but you can use only spicy or only mild green chillies if you prefer.
Rice is the star ingredient in yakhni pulao, so it's essential to use good quality rice. For this recipe, I have used Kolam rice, but Basmati rice is also a great option.
How to Make Flavorful Memon-Style Mutton Yakhni Pulao: My Family Favorite Dish ( Pressure cooker pulao)
To make yakhni pulao, put 500g mutton in a pressure cooker along with 1 onion, 4 cups of water, roughly chopped ginger(1 inch), 1 bay leaf, 4-5 cloves, 8-10 black peppercorns, 2 green cardamoms, 2 cinnamon stick, 1-star anise 1 TSP coriander seeds, 1 TSP cumin seeds, 1 TSP fennel seeds and 1 to TSP salt, mix everything with the help of a spatula.
Close the pressure cooker lid and cook on high flame for 15-20 minutes or until the mutton gets tender.
When the mutton is well-cooked, strain it to separate the mutton pieces and the yakhni (stock or broth). Discard the spices as they are no longer needed because their flavour has already been infused into the yakhni.
To make the masala, add one cup of fresh coriander and two to three green chillies to a mixer grinder and grind them into a fine paste. Set the ground masala aside for later use in the recipe.
Now, heat two tablespoons of ghee and two tablespoons of oil in a pressure cooker. Once the oil is hot, add one sliced onion and a few curry leaves, and fry until the onions turn light golden.
When the onions are golden, add ginger and garlic paste, and fry for a few seconds to eliminate the raw smell. Then, add the ground coriander and chilli paste, and cook until the masala is well cooked( bhuno) and the oil separates.
Next, add the cooked mutton pieces and the yakhni (stock) to the masala. Then, add rice that has been soaked for 15 minutes, one potato, two to three green chillies, ¼ teaspoon of garam masala, ½ teaspoon of cardamom powder, and ½ teaspoon of black pepper powder. Mix everything well.
Close the pressure cooker lid and cook on medium flame until two whistles.
After two whistles, turn off the stove and let the pressure cooker cool down to room temperature. Once the pressure releases naturally, open the lid and let it sit open for the rice to cool slightly. If you stir the rice at this stage, it might break. After 5 minutes, gently stir the rice and mix everything well.
Your tasty Memon-style mutton yakhni pulao is ready. Serve it with raita, raw onions, or pickles. Some people also enjoy this pulao with bhuna chicken or mutton masala.
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