Making delicious Fish Biryani - with Baby hake and boiled eggs

Fish biryani can be a more complicated recipe to follow but the reward at the end is delicious enough to make it worth the trouble.
Requires some preparation as well as simultaneous steps. Follow along as I use baby hake that we got, but the process for any other fresh fish will be the same.
Ingredients
800g frozen baby hake
To marinate the fish
2 tbs oil
1 tsp mixed masala
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tsp fine salt to taste
Crack of black pepper
Sprinkle of mixed herbs
Splash of lemon juice
For Biryani "curry"
3 medium tomatoes grated
1 medium onion, grated
3 green chillies
Biryani mix - cinnamon sticks, bay leaves, star anise and fennel
4 cloves of garlic sliced
1 tbs mixed masala
1 tsp hurdee (tumeric)
1 tsp salt
1 cup biryani dal (brown lentils)
1/2 cup frozen peas
The left over marinade from the fish
1/2 cup of the oil used to fry the fish
1/2 onion for garnish - fried in 1/2 cup oil
4 eggs, boiled
Dhania to garnish
2 cups par cooked rice (follow steps in chicken biryani recipe)
Best served with dhal and salad or sour milk salad. Will serve up to 6-8 people but can also be kept in the fridge because it will definitely taste better the next day!

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Hello gaithree thank you for your beautiful recepie I made baby hake beryani it came out lovely all your recipes are beau🎉 ❤❤ you are amazing

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So great to hear and great job in cooking it!

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Made this for my parents this morning before they left back to KZN.. Was an absolute Hit! Thank you for sharing❤😊

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Lovely recipie thank you

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Thank you for the kind words! Welcome to the community 👍🏽

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[@Angaveera21]

First time making fish breyani. This has been really helpful. Regards from Scotland

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

How did it come out?

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[@user-iz2dn1cf9y]

Lovely breyani will try it thanks for sharing ❤

[@draupadiomkar56]

Ty so much aunty ji. I followed your method and just tweaked it with some ingredients that I usually add to a fish dish and my family loved it🙏🏻

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Great please share your additions as well!

[@vasanthamoodley3815]

Thank you for sharing

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My Pleasure!

[@fawziahoosen1366]

Lovely biryani thanks for recipe I'm excited to try it..from Pretoria

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[@venipillay6412]

What a simple and easy recipe. Thank you for sharing

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explained very nice and ingredients are mentioned and on point, I like it because you are explaining so well,

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This I'm going to try...thank you mommy

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

How did it go?

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Delicious

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Thanks for this recipe it looks delicious

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Thank you!

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Yummy, looks so good!

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Thank you Sherons!

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I love your recipes, I made your chicken pie today, it was great

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Looks delicious 😋 i luv it

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Thanks so much!

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I love it.................. Try to get some silicone spoons so you dont scratch your beautiful pots , the none stick surface, just a thought .

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Delicious thank you

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Thanks so much!

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@@GaithreeDeviLuckan please tell me where to find your mutton briyani and your masala the Taj mixed can I use it for chicken and all curries

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

@@cynthiamatthews6057 hi Cynthia, we us Taj Mahal as well but we make our own mixed masala, adding to the Taj base. See the video for how I mix my masala: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWKvY6d6nZWchdk

[@matildasimboti5048]

Looks interesting fish is my favorite I will definitely try this today.

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Hope you do!

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Gonna try this recipe today.😋👍

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Let us know how it comes out!

[@sarahjean-louis4728]

Hi , I watched your video on the fish biryanis, I am so glad that I came upon this video , will definitely try it especially for my husband . I just want to know how you cook the rice with the two different colours . Thank you .

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

When cooking the rice we add hurdee (tumeric) - this gives the milder yellow colour. After the rice cooked we added egg yellow food colouring that gives the brighter orange, almost red colour to some of the grains.

[@anyn7339]

Aunty you are such a talented cook. I wanted to ask you if you ever use butter or ghee in your breyani. My mum uses butter or ghee to fry her onions and too braze the curry .....with a mix of oil too. So with breyani.....we always do a mix of dhania mint onion and tomatoes....in food processor ....thats the base of all breyani. Maybe Tamil people have a different style of cooking. We don't use peas at all. Thank you for showing a different style of making breyani. Looks delicious

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

We do add in butter or margarine from the top, especially for veg Biryani. That base mixture sounds interesting. When do you add? While still braising?

[@anyn7339]

@@GaithreeDeviLuckanAunty, same as when you add your tomatoes....thats when we add the "dhania mint tomatoes onion" liquidized mix....we put "chillies" too in that mix..I forgot about that. I will be trying your way.....looks so much quicker and less pots to wash. Thank you Aunty, stay blessed

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Will do soon!

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Made this last night for supper Everyone loved it.thanks Ma'am 😊

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Such a pleasure, thanks for the feedback!

[@brigettebond6088]

Thanks for showing us how to cook fish breyani. Pls write recipe step by step for us. Thanks

[@giogioskara237]

Yummy that is so divine.. most hearty meal indeed .. thank you for sharing ❤️ can I use a gas oven to put the breyani in?

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

The oven is to dry out Biryani just a little bit. As long as you watch it and you keep your heat just low enough to allow the biryani to dry it should be fine 👍🏽👍🏽

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Thankks

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Only a pleasure 🙏🏼

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[@rajisgovender1479]

I just bought some baby hake will try your style. Looks delicious. Thank You your videos are wonderful slow and step by step Just love it Aunty Gaithree God Bless

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Hope you enjoy! Its my pleasure!

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WOW i know now how to make biryani

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Hope you give it a try!

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#GaithreeDeviLuckan I've been watching your videos here in NZ and been loving them. Of late I've been missing Durban style Indian food and your recipes have made me want to cook my own curries etc. Watching one of your videos I see you grew up in Sezela, I went to primary school there and grew up in Pennington. Our bus driver then (1990-1992?) was an Indian guy named Ram, what a character!

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

We grew up in Sezela in the 1960s and 1970s. I got married in 1979 and moved to a small settlement near marianhill/pine town.

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Thank u so much. I've made it for supper and it was awesome.

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Most welcome 😊

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🙏Yummy, scrumptious definitely going to try your recipe. Happy cooking loves Jayshree 🌹❤️

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But please make Cornish

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@@nicolaanddenzilcookingchan8650 we will also make Cornish soon!

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Absolutely delicious. Is that carrot in the rice?

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It looks like a little bit of food colored rice which some people do😁

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Thank you Megan!

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[@shanalawrence4381]

Ahhh Mum.... Your breyani looks so delicious 🤗.... I usually omit the tomatoes for sour milk. Take care, stay safe and have a blessed weekend 🙏

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

We do that on other biryanis like chicken biryani but fish biryani we like to make more sour and therefore use tomatoes

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@@GaithreeDeviLuckan mum, please can you share a sweet rice recipe 🙏

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

@@shanalawrence4381 we will add to the list and upload soon!

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[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Thanks!

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Thanks so much ma

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Only a pleasure!

[@yajnahutheram6731]

Delicious. What about adding potatoes? 🤔

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Yes you can add them - cut them into thick round chips and fry off and add to the top of the biryani.

[@nishiramjith7879]

THANK U FR THE RECIPE TO FEED 30...TO 40 PEOPLE...U ARE AWESOME..GOD BLESS..

[@pamchetty5960]

Love your delicious recipes.. 🙏🙏.. Can u plz tell me what masala you use. 🌹

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Hi Pam. This is the recipe for my mixed masala. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWKvY6d6nZWchdk

[@pamchetty5960]

@@GaithreeDeviLuckan thank you🙏🌹

[@anushareddy2474]

Hello Aunty. Thank you for your channel...I've learnt so much from you. Was the baby hake frozen? How do you defrost it? Thx

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Yes it was, we actually used it from frozen so it was not defrosted.

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Its easier to removed the scales and cut into pieces while it is still frozen. Otherwise it gets too soft too quickly.

[@atholraw5883]

Please aunty make and show tinfish curry. If you can also do roti and how much of gee to use. Thank you so much .

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Hi there. Here is the recipe for the tinned fish curry: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqCml5-Vo8aWq9k And here is the link for the plain roti: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHmsi36hgK6BrpI

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Thanks a lot, welcome to the community!

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😋

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Thank you!

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Love your videos aunt please can you do a video on how to make itally sorry for spelling looking forward to that. Thanks and god bless.

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

I've not tried idli myself - I will try to get a recipe to try and if it is successful will share on here.

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l love your channel, but what ingredients do you have in you mixed masala. please advise.

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Hi Patsy. Here is the video for how we mix our mixed masala. The list of ingredients and quantity is written in the description of the video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWKvY6d6nZWchdk

[@cynthiamatthews6057]

I agree with that, I love briyani, but I can't cook it, do you do open fire cooking

[@user-bv5wh1io1d]

Pls give me veg biryani recipe

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Here is the link to the vegetable biryani recipe: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZSXhIF3nJyootU

[@rukeyamohamed1644]

What kind of mix masala r u using pls

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Here is how i mix my masala: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWKvY6d6nZWchdk

[@ingridraikes9082]

What is the red in the cooked rice please?

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

It is good colouring. The colouring is called egg yellow. Where the colouring is added it is more intense so shows up as red an not yellow.

[@judymarais12345]

Using frozen fish tonight. Any advice

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Hi Judy, sorry, missed this response. How did it go?

[@thobashneenaidoo428]

Where do you buy this hake from in jhb

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

We used boxed frozen baby hake. I&J or Seaharvest both have them.

[@priyanaidoo9385]

why dont you put sour milk in the fish breyani

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Usually we use sour milk to help tenderise meat. Fish does not need to be tenderised.

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Do more nice food auntie 🤝

[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

Thanks, will keep it up!

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[@hazelkettle4642]

Bold eggs. Ew gross and fish no way

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It is delicious, should give it a try

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Please elaborate why you’ve said this twice now?

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[@GaithreeDeviLuckan]

@@meeraramchuran6188 thanks so much for the feedback! 🙏🏼