Vegetable Biriyani

Niranjana Sankaranarayanan

Vegetable biriyani is a rich, exotic rice that is made with a lot of vegetables and spices. It is completely different from pulav and fried rice. It contains three main ingredients that is not included in pulav and fried rice-curd, red chilli powder and tomato. Usually the rice and the gravy is cooked separately but in Tamilnadu, they make biriyani in two ways. In one way, the rice, gravy is cooked separately and then they are arranged in layers and cooked in dum. In the second method, it is cooked as one pot meal. Wonder how? Yes, you can make this vegetable biriyani as a one pot meal too. But it differ from pulao as it has curd, tomato which are not used to make pulao. I learnt this version from one of my college friends.

Whenever we feel the class is boring or during the free hours we will discuss about making different types of recipes, method of making it etc., Though myself and my mom have experimented it in different ways, we found this version easy. Apt recipe to be served during get together and on weekends. There is also another version that i learnt from another friend of mine and will share that recipe too sometime.

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Mint Vegetable Biriyani

Raw Jackfruit Dum biriyani

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Prep Time 20

Cook Time 20

Total Time 40

Course Main Course

Cuisine Indian

Servings 4

Equipment

Pressure cooker

Ingredients

1 cup Basmathi Rice In the video i have used Sona masoori rice,hence added 2.5 cups of water
1.5 cups Water
3 ladle Curd
To Taste Salt
3 tsp Red chilli powder
2 tbsp Ghee

Vegetables

1 no Onion
2 small Tomato
¾ cup Carrot 1 no
½ cup Beans 6 to 8
few florets Cauliflower
1 medium size Potato
¾ cup Green peas small cup
¾ cup Corn small cup

Masala items

2 tbsp Cumin seeds
1 tsp Fennel seeds
1 no Cardamom
3 nos Bay leaf
small piece Mace
1 no Marathi mokku
1 no Star anise
1 no Cinnamon
3 nos Cloves
1 tbsp Ginger garlic paste

Instructions

In a pressure cooker add ghee and the ingredients given under masala items. Saute them well until the raw smell goes off.
Grind the ginger, garlic with two teaspoon of onion.
Now add this paste into the cooker and saute.
Chop onions into small bits and the other vegetables in one inch length.
Separate the florets of cauliflower and boil it in salt water for five minutes to remove any worm if present.
Then add the chopped onions and tomatoes. Saute until they turn golden brown or until the raw smell goes off.
Finally add all the other vegetables, curd, salt, red chilli powder. Saute for two minutes in low flame.
Finally add the rice, water and mix well.Close the lid.
I have taken sona masoori rice and added 2.5 cups of water for 1 cup of rice. If you are using Basmathi rice, you can add 1.5 cups of water for 1 cup of rice.
Pressure cook the biriyani in high flame until you get first whistle and in low flame until you get second whistle.
Serve with onion raitha or rice papad.

Video

Keyword Biriyani, Vegetable biriyani