Masoor biryani

Hello everyone!!!
The recipe i am going to share today is masoor biryani given to me by a very dear friend, shehnaz. She is my sis-in-law's best friend. Her mother made the best masoor pulao, and shehnaz has learnt it from her but adapted it to biryani. And its awesome. Thanks shehnaz. So, here it goes.

Masoor biryani

Ingredients:

2 cups black masoor dal (Soaked and boiled)

6-7 onions (sliced)
4-5 potatoes (cut into half and fried)
2-3 tomatoes (chopped)
1cup Yougurt
2 tbsp Shan Biryani masala
1 tbspRed Chilli,
1 tsp haldi
1 tbspzeera,
1 tej patta
2 cardomoms
1 inch dalchini
2-3 cloves
3-4 black pepper
3 tbsp coriander powder
2 tbsp Ginger & garlic paste
Oil
Soak some zaafran in milk
3 tbsp lemon juice

METHOD : -
1) First heat the oil ,add whole garam masala, let it crackle. Then add half the onions till golden brown.
2) add ginger and garlic paste, red chilli  power, haldi, coriander seed powder and shan biryani masala and bhuno it really well till oil seperates.
3)add yogurt and wait till it becomes a little dry.
4) add the daal and fry nicely and then add fried potato.
your masoor daal is ready

For the rice:

Ingredients:

2 cups rice
2 tbsp ghee
1 tej patta
2 green cardamoms
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
Salt
Water 3 cups

Method:

1)Heat ghee, add the tej patta and cardamoms
2)add the ginger garlic paste.
3)add water and salt and bring the water to a boil.
4) put the rice and cook on high till all water evaporates and then on slow for 5 mins.

For the layering:

1)First put a layer of the daal in a vessel, add the lemon juice from the top, garnish it with mint leaves and coriander leaves, and sprinkle some fried onions too and top off it with the cooked rice.
2) Sprinkle the zaffron with the milk evenly on the rice, garnish with fried onions.oil rice and then makes the layers add lemon juice, zaafran and onions to the last layer.
3) put it on the dum by covering it witha tight lid and put it on slow for at least 15 mins.
4) serve it with the kachumbar of your choice.
U can even garnish it with boiled eggs.

Or u can do the layering in a bowl, starting with rice, then daal, then rice...
And upturning the bowl when serving.

Hope u all try it and do give me your feedback.
I tried it and loved it too.