Vegetable
Biryani Recipe
Vegetable
Biryani recipe is a rice recipe that is cooked on special
occasions such as festivals, parties, celebrations. Biryani is also
spelt and pronounced as biriyani.
It is a special rice and
vegetables dish. It is a rich dish as it uses dry fruits,
spices, herbs and yogurt. The vegetables include capsicum, cauliflower,
carrots, potatoes, green peas. It can be a one dish meal too.
It is different from vegetable pulao. When you make pulao, rice is
cooked with vegetable and spices. When you make Biryani, you cook the
rice and vegetables separately and then both are cooked in a oven in
dry heat. The taste of pulav and biryani different because of
this.
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How to make Vegetable Biryani
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Ingredients
to Serve 2
- Basmati rice - 1 cup
- saffron - 2 pinches
- onions – 1 cup sliced thin
- cashew nuts - 6
- raisins - 1 tbsp
- tomatoes - 1 cup finely chopped
- yoghurt - 1/2 cup
- mixed vegetables - 2 cups boiled till just done.
- coriander - 1 tbsp chopped
- ghee(vegetable oil) - 2 tbsp
- butter - 2 tbsp salt to taste
Grind to a
paste the folowing:
- garlic - 2 cloves
- mint leaves - 2 tbsp chopped
- ginger – 1/2 inch piece
- green chili - 1
- cardamoms- 2
- poppy seeds – 1 tsp
- Cinnamon – 1 inch stick
- Cloves - 2
- coriander powder - 1 tsp
- turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
- chili powder - 1/4 tsp
- onion - 1
Cooking
Method:
- Cook the rice till just done. Each grain of the
cooked rice should be separate. Drain and cool.
- Soak saffron in little hot milk.
- Heat the ghee/oil and fry the cashew nuts,
remove onto a plate. Add the onions in the same ghee, fry until brown
and crisp. Drain and remove. Add raisins and fry for a few
seconds. Remove and keep aside for garnish.
- In the same ghee, add the ground paste and fry
for 3 to 4 minutes. Add the tomatoes and fry again.
- Add the yoghurt and fry till the mixture
thickens a bit.
- Add the boiled vegetables, coriander and cook
for 5 minutes.
- Grease a baking dish. Spread half the rice at
the bottom. Spread half the vegetables on it. Sprinkle half
the saffron, half the onions, half the fried nuts.
- Repeat with the remaining vegetables, rice,
saffron and nuts. Dot with butter. Cover and bake in a hot oven for
about 15 minutes. Otherwise you can also layer the vegetables and rice
in a pan with a tight lid and keep on a very slow flame for
10 minutes.
Serve hot with cucumber raita, tomato raita and
papadam.
I am sure you and your family will enjoy this vegetable biryani recipe.
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