Tasty Kerala Style Fish Biriyani

igredients
For fish masala
King fish - ½ kg
Onion - 2 big

Crushed Ginger & garlic - 1 tablespoon each
Crushed green chilli - 1 tablespoon
Tomato - 3 medium
Coriander powder - 1 tbsp
Curd - ¼ cup
Ghee/dalda - 1 tbsp
Oil
For marination
Chilli powder - 2 teaspoon
Pepper powder - ½ teaspoon
Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon
Ginger & garlic - 1 table spoon each
Small onion - 3,4
Fenugreek - a pinch
Mustard - a pinch
Salt
For white paste
Coconut - 2 tablespoon
Poppy seeds - ½ tablespoon
Cashew nuts - 1 tablespoon (soaked in water)
For rice
Basmati rice - 2 cups
water - 4 cups
Cardamom - 6
Cinnamon - 2 medium size stick
Clove - 6
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Lemon Juice - 1-2 tablespoon
Salt
Instructions
Grind together all the ingredients for marination into a fine paste. Marinate the cleaned fish pieces with this paste for ½ an hour.
Grind together the ingredients for white paste & keep aside.
Shallow fry the marinated fish till it is half cooked.
Add 1 tablespoon ghee to this oil & saute the onion till it becomes soft. Add the crushed ginger, garlic & green chilli & saute for 3 minutes. Add 1 teaspoon coriander powder. When the oil starts appearing add the tomatoes.When the tomatoes are cooked well add ¼ cup curd. Mix well. Add the shallow fried fish pieces. Make sure that the fish pieces are covered with gravy. After 5 minutes add the white paste. When the gravy becomes thick & fish is cooked remove from fire.
Heat 1 tablespoon ghee in a pan and add the whole masala (cardamom, cloves & cinnamon). Add the washed rice. When the rice starts cracking add 4 cups of boiling water, salt, coriander & mint leaves & lemon juice. Cook the rice till the water is completely dried.
Butter a baking dish. Spread one layer of fish masala first & a layer of rice on top of it. Repeat the same. Top layer should be rice.
Preheat the oven at 200 C, 10 mins before baking. Reduce the oven temp to 180 C and bake for 20-25 minutes. Spread a wet cloth over the dish while baking. Garnish with fried onions,nuts, raisins. Serve the biriyani with raitha,mango chutney & pappad.