Prawn Dham Briyani

Ingredients  

• Prawn – 1kg 
• Basmati rice – 2 cup 
• oil – 4 tsp 
• ghee – 2 tsp 
• cinnamon stick – 2 
• cloves – 5 
• sombu – 1 tsp 
• cardomon – 2 
• bay leaf – 1 
• onion – 1 (big) – nicely chopped 
• green chilli – 5 nicely chopped 
• cilantro – 1/2 cup 
• pudhina – 1/2 cup 
• ginger-garlic paste – 2 tsp 
• turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp 
• salt – as per taste 
• tomato paste – 1 cup 
• coconut paste – 1/2 cup 
• lemon – 1 
• cashews – 10

Method

• In a cooker, add oil and put cardomon, sombu, cinnamon stick, cloves, bay leave, onion and green chilli and saute well. 
• Add the cilantro, pudhina, ghee, ginger-garlic paste and saute until the oil come out. 
• Now add the prawns, turmeric powder, salt and cook for 2 minutes. 
• Add the tomoto paste, coconut paste and again cook for 2 more minutes. 
• After this add the rice and fry for few minutes and add the water, lemon juice and allow it to boil. 
• When the water starts boiling, check for the seasoning and keep the stove in sim and close the cooker lid with tumbler ( not with the whistle).
• Cook for 15 minutes and switch off the stove. 
• Open the cooker lid and add the fried cashews and serve hot with raitha.