Vegetable Biryani
Recipe prepared by Smt Jhansi Lakshmi
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Article written by Lakshmi Aparna
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Serves: 3-4
Course: Main
1 bowl measurement: 250 ml
Main ingredients: Vegetables and Rice
Vegetable biryani is a very healthy dish. It is full of nutrition in the form of vegetables. It is ideal to have it with any paneer (cottage cheese) curry since it completes the nutrition triangle, the fibre from the vegetables + the carbs from the rice + the protein from the paneer. Here we have depicted the pressure cooker style of cooking. Mrs.Jhansi cooked this mildly spicy. Other items that vegetable biryani is good with are onion raitha, aaloo kurma, aaloo tomato kurma and chick peas curry. Here are the step by step instructions.
Ingredients
Vegetables
Potatoes (aloo): 1/2 bowl
Chopped carrot: 1 bowl
French beans: 1 bowl
Green peas: 1 bowl
Onion slices: 2 medium
Green chillies slices: 4-5
Ginger garlic paste: 1 tbsp
2 inch Cinnamon, 3-4 cardamom, 1 bay leaf, 8 cloves
Basmati rice or plain rice: 2 bowls (I have used sonamasoori rice)
Coriander leaves: Few
Mint leaves: Few
Refined oil: 3 tbsp
Clarified butter (ghee): 1 tbsp
Salt: As per taste
Water: 4 bowls
Procedure
Step 1: Heat 3 tbsp oil in a pressure pan or cooker. Add cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, bay leaf. Saute (fry) for a minute in medium flame
Step 2: Add and mix onion slices and green chillies. Saute (fry) for 1 minute in high flame
Step 3: Add mint leaves and ginger garlic paste to it. Stir and saute (fry) for a minute in high flame
Step 4: Add and mix potatoes. Saute (fry) for a minute in high flame
Step 5: Add and mix carrot, french beans, green peas. Saute (fry) for a minute in high flame
Step 6: Add and mix cleaned and washed rice (2 bowls) and coriander leaves to it
Step 7 : Add and mix 2 tbsp salt to rice
Step 7: Add and mix 4 bowls water and 1 tbsp ghee to it. Cook in a pressure pan or cooker.
Note: Taste the water and add salt if required
Step 8: Turn off the flame after 2 whistles.
Hot and healthy vegetable biryani is ready to serve
Vegetable biryani tastes good with raitha, aaloo kurma, aaloo tomato kurma, chana masala, egg masala, bagara vankayi :)
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