Vegetable Biriyani

Vegetable Biriyani is one of the flavourful Indian dishes. Biriyani is cooked with Basmati rice, mixed veggies and spice powders. You can use coconut water instead of plain water for better taste. You can serve with Egg curry and raita.

Cuisine: Indian

Author: Indu Haresh

Serves: 2

Ingredients 

Basmati Rice - 1 Cup (I used Coffee mug)

Oil - 2 tbsp

Ghee - 2 tbsp

Onion(Big) - 1 Chop into thin slices lengthwise

Tomato(Big) - 1 Chop into thin slices lengthwise

GingerGarlic paste - 1 tsp or 1 1/2 tsp

Curd - 1 tbsp

Lemon - 1/8 portion(if you want more tanginess add 1/4 lemon)

Mint leaves - 1 handful

Water - 1 1/2 cup for 1 cup rice

Salt to taste(Also I have added twice once when sautéing the onion and Next when adding the chopped veggies)

Whole Spices

Bay leaf - 1

Fennel seeds - 1 tsp

Cumin seeds - 1/2 or 1 tsp

Cinnamon - 1 small stick

Cloves - 3 or 4

If you want add 1 star-anise

Spice Powder(if you want add more or less as per your taste)

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Red Chilli powder - 1 tbsp

Coriander powder - 1 tsp

Garam masala or Biriyani masala - 1 or 1 1/2 tsp

Vegetables (add as of your choice like cauliflower, capsicum)

Potato - 1

Carrot - 2

Beans - 1/2 Cup

Peas - 1/2 Cup

Preparation:

Wash thoroughly and Soak the basmati rice in water for half an hour(you can soak the rice and start preparation and cooking).

Chop the onion tomato and all the veggies. Keep ginger garlic paste, mint leaves, whole spices, masala powder, Vegetables, curd, lemon ready.

Cooking:

Heat oil and ghee in pressure cooker.

Add the whole spices(Bay leaf, fennel, cumin, cinnamon, cloves) leave it for two seconds.

Add chopped onion and little salt - sauté it till it turns transparent.

• Add ginger garlic paste and sauté it till the raw smell leaves.

• Add in the sliced tomato, sauté it and cook for 3 to 4 minutes till it gets mushy.

• Add all the masala powders, mix it and cook till the masala smell leaves.

• Add mint leaf, curd and mix it well.

• Add all the chopped vegetables and salt as needed and mix well and cook for five minutes.

• Add the soaked rice and 1 1/2 cup of water and the lemon juice and give a gentle mix. Check for the salt and add as per your taste(After mixing when you taste the water, it has to be little extra salty and spicy so when it gets cooked the taste will be perfect).

• Close the lid with whistle. Keep it for one whistle in sim and switch off or Keep it in sim for 15 mins and switch off the stove.

• Open the cooker once after all the steam goes and transfer the cooked rice to hotbox or any other vessel so it wont get stick.
• Serve the veg biriyani with raita/egg/any 65 recipes.