this evenings recipe is a
prawn biryani
what are we thinking do you like biryani love biryani but at
the same time biryani is obviously layers of rice
you want to have enough spice so its a curry
but not so much that you cant taste the prawns and
of course prawns are really easy to overcook so even though
delicious knock out
its probably really hard
to get right
we are going to do a few cheats but im pretty sure we can no i trust you boys you guys are going to kill it even me
well crack on you take care good luck
Ben now i'm really nervous are we going to be alright we are going to be absolutely fine now our version of a prawn biryani has lots of
spices
but so they perfectly blend together we start with
the rice get the whole lot in the whole lot
in
wipe it onto the floor juts don't let Jamie see
with all that rice in there that gives about nine minutes to do our other flavours and
filling so basmati rice normally ten eleven minutes
were going to do it for a little bit less because
its going to go in the oven and we don't want to over cook it
so next up your going to take ginger garlic and onion peel and finely dice all of
those then fry them in a shot of oil with a handful of cashew nuts
while we leave those to sweat off we can talk about our spices now we have got lots of them
are you alright no im not
alright that was a really
strong onion its worth it
its going to be worth a tear lets talk about spices Jamie because there is a lot of them we only use a few at the time
three of those
their cloves that's four
we've got some cardamon pods 3 of those
really really
well put some over there
and some back in there is that alright
next up some star anise couple of those
some bay leaves
couple of those
one cinnamon stick
a teaspoon of fennel seeds
and a teaspoon of
turmeric and we can add these to our onion cashew nut ginger and garlic
next up is sweetness in the form of sultanas
and some raw prawns because as you cook them prawns are naturally very sweet
what did you say
as we cook them off we don't want to over cook them
ooh Jamie said they were sweet ooh we must believe him
he has never said prawns are sweet before never
and the Jamie strolls into the kitchen and says prawns are sweet
there great right
and suddenly Ben's saying it
now the last thing we want are rubber bullets were not going to over cook those prawns just until they are almost cooked in the middle because by the time we put them through the oven they will carry on cooking
you have got some very weird metaphors okay and now for our sultanas
a handful of those the time its taken us to cook those prawns we can now drain our rice because we don't want this over cooked
there is nothing worse than a sloppy biryani
drain that off
and leave it to dry out
a knob of butter a few sprigs of fresh coriander and look now
the smell the colors the textures all the flavours in those prawns now at this point
its about layering them up did Jamie say that as well yes okay
its just you have not mentioned to me about layering up a biryani
this is something i picked up in Goa
and that is where this dish has been inspired from cool so
nothing to do with what Jamie mentioned when he was here
earlier about you know getting all the layers right
he pointed it out but it was something we were planning to do anyway i'm just checking i don't want
i don't want it to come across like your copying everything
that Jamie says no far from
that's fine
more prawns now you can fish out
big bits like the star anise because no one wants to chew on those but
if a couple of bay leaves end up in there not a problem
would you say this is a difficult dish
how have you found it so far
i haven't done anything i chopped an onion i cried a little bit
and then i bullied you
so pretty easy then pretty easy so far
and then the final thing to do is grab two spoons and do one kind of final mix up
so you want to keep the layers but just begin to mix them
then at that point it goes into the oven at 180 degree Celcius for about
ten minutes
untll its really really light and fluffy
and while we are waiting
for that to cook out we can do something else
really sweet some caramelized red onion we are going to slice them up and just cook them very very slowly in a little bit of
oil
slight bit of salt and pepper until they really sweeten they cook in their own sugars and when we come back to it
it will almost be like a caremilised
marmalade lovely
there you go awesome biryani finish it with some of those caramelized
almost marmalade like red onions more fresh coriander some chilli as well now that is a awesome Goan
Prawn Biryani dig in grab a fork I've got mine ill be the official Jamie tester right so prawns their sweet Overcooked No I really love that
mix of the sweet
you get a bit of a spice but i'ts not hot you can have more chilli if you want i love that that is really
cool
nice caramelized onions on the top
there on the top and they top it off
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