Palak Paneer Biriyani

Ingredients:

• Basmati rice - 1 cup
• Cauliflower - 1/2 cup [ cut into small pieces ]
• Cashewnuts - 10
• Panner - 1/4 cup [ cut into tiny pieces ]
• Cinnamon - 1/2 inch piece
• Cardamoms - 2
• Cloves - 2
• Bay leaf - 2
• Palak leaves - 5 to 6[ blanch in hot water for a minute and cut into tiny pieces ]
• Ghee - 2 tbl sp
• Oil - 2 tbl . sp
• Onions - 2 [ cut into small pieces ]
• Salt - as required
• Red chili powder - 1 sp
• Red tomatoes - 2 [ chopped ]
• Tomato puree - 1 tabl . sp
• Ginger - 1 sp [ cut into thin pieces ]
• Saffron - little [ mix in the warm milk ]
• Tomatoes - 2 [ cut into thin rings ]
• Fresh cream - 1 / 2 cup
• Butter - little
• Green chili paste - 1 / 2 sp
• Garlic flakes - 2 to 3 [ chopped into very small pieces ]

Method:
Wash and soak the rice for 20 mins. Then take one pressure pan pour ghee and oil together add cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, bay leaf, cashews.  When the cashews turns into golden colour, add flower along with salt and fresh cream. Pour water and mix well. Close the lid and wait for 3 whistles to come. After the pressure goes, open the cooker and allow it to cool. Meanwhile, take one kadai and place it on the gas, pour 1 sp ghee heat it, add finely cut onions, fry for a minute and add cut palak leaves, salt, green chili paste and mix well. Add little fresh cream, mix well and keep aside. Again keep the kadai on the gas, add little butter to it, heat it add chopped garlic pieces, fry for a minute and add cut tomatoes, paneer, along with tomato puree, salt, red chili powder, little cream and mix well. Fry for 2 mints and keep aside. Meanwhile, preheat oven at 200 degrees, take one oven glass vessel and apply little butter to that. Keep the tomato rings in the bottom of the vessel, on top put the boiled rice one layer, sprinkle garam masala powder, then apply [ kasar, curd, cream and mix together] on top put ginger pieces, after that pour palak gravy, again cooked rice one layer, sprinkle garam masala powder, again add kasar, curd, cream mixture and then paneer gravy on top and finally add the remaining cooked rice. Cover with aluminium foil paper and keep it for 10 mins. Your yummy palak paneer biriyani is ready to eat. Serve hot.