Kala moti biryani is a delicious Indian recipe. The words Kale Moti refer to the small grains of black urad dal. 'Kale' here is a Hindi(Indian) word for black colour which happens to be the colour the lentils used in this recipe. 'Moti' means pearls..what this means here is that this rice dish is a treat of black lentils and is as delicious as pearls are beautiful.
- In a hot pan add oil, lichen stone flower, mace, cinnamon, cloves, star anise, shahi jeera.
- Then add onions, salt, green chillies, green chilli paste, ginger garlic paste and cook it.
- Later add boiled potatoes, red chilli powder, turmeric, soaked chana and cover it.
- For cooking leave it up to 4-5 minutes.
- In a bowl add whole wheat flour, salt, ajwain, oil, water and make a soft dough.
- Rest the dough for 10minutes.
- Now add chopped coriander leaves, chopped mint leaves, Yogurt into the cooked chana mixture, lime juice, water and mix it nicely. Keep it in a simmer flame.
- In a hot boiling water drop the soaked basmati rice and add little oil.
- Then add fried onions to the kala motis
- Transfer dried basmati rice into the kale moti and add fried onions on top of it.
- Leave it for simmering up to 12-15minutes and mix it.
- Now take the dough and roll it like a thin case.
- In a ceramic bowl apply oil, butter, then place the case on it and apply oil on it.
- Add chopped coriander leaves, chopped mint leaves, fried onions, white basmati rice, moti's on top it and wrap up.
- Now keep in oven at 180 degrees for around 20-30 minutes.
- Take out from oven apply butter on top of it for crispiness and again keep it in oven.
- Now take it out from oven and place it on a chopping board.
- Cut top layer and serve it.
Now khastha pardha kale moti biryani is ready to serve.