Vegetable Biryani – Recipe 2
Ingredients for Vegetable Biryani:
1. Biryani rice – 3.5 cups
2. Ghee – ½ cup
3. Cinnamon – 1 piece
Cloves – 6
Cardamom – 6
4. Salt – As required
5. Hot water – 7 cups
For vegetable masala:
6. Oil – ½ cup
7. Ginger-garlic paste – 2 big spoons
8. Onions – 2, finely chopped
Green chillies – 6, split into two
Tomatoes – 2 medium sized, chopped
9. Carrot, beans and potatoes chopped fine and green peas – 100 gm each
Salt – For taste
10. Coconut scrapped – 1 cup, finely grinded
11. Garam masala powder – 1 big spoon
12. Coriander leaves – 50 gm, chopped
Mint leaves – 50 gm, chopped
13. Bread – 4 slices, cut into small square pieces and fried
To set biryani:
14. Ghee – A little
15. Garam masala powder – 1 small spoon
Onions – 2 small, sliced and fried till golden brown
How to prepare Vegetable Biryani?
1. Wash rice and drain off excess water.
2. Heat ghee and splutter ingredients no: 3.
3. Add rice and fry for 5 minutes.
4. Add salt and hot water and allow to boil.
5. Close the lid and cook in low flame.
6. When rice is well cooked, water content should be fully absorbed.
7. Heat oil and sauté ginger-garlic paste.
8. Add ingredients no: 8 and sauté the contents.
9. When onions are well sauted, add vegetables, salt and half cup water. Cook the contents.
10. When it’s done, add coconut paste and allow to boil.
11. Add garam masala powder, mint leaves and coriander leaves.
12. Mix well and put the flame off. The gravy should not be too thick.
13. Add fried bread crumbs and mix well.
14. Take a thick bottomed vessel to set biryani and apply a thin coat of ghee.
15. Spread half amount of vegetable masala in the vessel as one layer.
16. Spread half amount of cooked rice as layer two.
17. Spread half the quantity of ingredients no: 15.
18. Then layer the remaining vegetable masala and rice as next two layers respectively.
19. Spread garam masala and remaining fried onions on the top.
20. Close the lid and cook for 5 more minutes.
Recipe Source: Vanitha Magazine February 15-29, 2012
You can check yet another Vegetable Biryani recipe here, published in 2012.
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