Hi guys ! Welcome to my food blog . Today my recipe is vegetable Biryani in South Indian style to be cooked either in a pot or in a cooker . It to be served with raita and brinjal grave . This recipe I had posted for 4 servings .
⏲️Preparation time : 30 minutes
⏱️Cook time : 30 minutes
🍽️Serve : 4 members
🔖Cuisine : south Indian
🔖Method : either pot or pressure cooker
If you want to cook in cooker wait for 3 whistles for the rice to be cooked .
Ingredients :
Spices
- Bay leaf - 2
- Cinnamon - 2
- Star anise - 1
- Cardamom - 4
- Cloves - 5
- Fennel seeds - 1/2 tablespoon
- Turmeric powder - 1/2 tablespoon
- Garam masala - 1 tablespoon
- Chilli powder - 1 tablespoon or according to your convenience .
Vegetables
- Onion - 2 medium size to be sliced
- Tomato - 1 medium size to be chopped
- Green chilli - 1 medium size to be sliced
- Carrot - 1 chopped
- Beans - 4 chopped
- Potato - 1 cubed
- Peas - 1/4 cup soaked previous night
- Cauliflower - 10 florets
- Mint leaves
- Coriander leaves
Other ingredients
- Basmati rice - 1and 1/2 cup
- Water - 2 cups
- Curd - 1/2 cup
- Salt to taste
- Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 cup
- Cashewnut - 8 to 10
- Ghee / butter - 3 tablespoon
Method of preparation :
- In hot pot add ghee or butter and add the spices which I listed out above in ingredients column ( Bay leaf - 2Cinnamon - 2Star anise - 1Cardamom - 2Cloves - 2Fennel seeds - 1 tablespoon ) and cashewnut . Roast for 2 minutes in medium flame .
- Then add sliced onions , green chilli and mint leaves . Saute till onion changes to golden color .
- Add ginger garlic paste and cook it for 2 minutes .
- Then , add tomatoes and cook till it get a soft texture . After this add curd and cook for 2 minutes .
- This is the stage to add all other vegetables I mentioned above . Cook the vegetables well .
- After the vegetables get shrinked add turmeric , garam masala , chilli powder and salt to it . Saute it well . All the raw smell of masalas should disappear .
- Add water and check the taste of salt and spice to adjust it . And add coriander leaves .
- When water starts to boil add basmati rice and saute gently with single stroke . Don't over saute then rice will broke .
- Close the pot with lid till the rice cooks . When the rice cooks 3/4 th over the lid of the pot place a hot water bowl to make a dum in a medium flame for 15 minutes .
- Finally , serve the vegetable briyani with raita or brinjal grave on a Banana leaf in a traditional way and enjoy the south indian style of preparation .
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