We call this “Vegetable Biryani” in our home. As far as I know, my mom makes rarely biryani and my mom in law never makes biryani! They dont use cinnamon,cloves,fennel,bay leaves in their cooking. Till now my MIL hates those masalas… But after I came here to SG I started experimenting and started using these masalas and my kid loves it! My kid started eating biryani at the age of 2 and he used to eat only biryani most of the days that time!! I too am used in handling all these masalas now a days …
And coming to this vegetable biryani recipe, I always make each time a different way or follow a recipe for a while and then get bored of that and keep changing the recipe now and then. So once when I had this biryani in Jeyashri’s home, me and my kid loved it a lot and being food bloggers, I asked for the recipe and she too shared,then for a while now I am hooked to this recipe. I made this last week when my SIL visited us and the kids enjoyed the biryani. So I thought of sharing the recipe too.
Ingredients
| Onion | 1 |
| Mixed vegetables* | As needed |
| Sambar powder/red chilli powder | 1/2 tsp |
| Salt | As needed |
| Coriander leaves | 2 stems |
| Ghee | 1 tblsp |
| Basmati Rice | 1 cup |
* I used 1 carrot,1 potato,8 beans,1 fist full of frozen peas,2 baby corns,10 small florets of cauliflower.
To grind
| Mint leaves | 10 |
| Green chillies | 3 – 4 |
| Garlic (big variety) | 4 |
| Fennel seeds | 3/4 – 1 tsp |
| Cardamom | 2 |
| cloves | 1 |
| Star anise | 1/2 |
To Temper
| Oil or ghee | 2 – 3 tblsp |
| Jeera | 1 tsp |
| Bay leaves | 1 |
Method:
- Soak the rice for at least 1/2 an hour. Grind the items given under ‘to grind’ table with little water to a smooth paste.
- Chop the veggies to your desired size.Slice the onion. Heat a cooker with oil/ghee and add the items given under ‘To Temper’ table in order.
- Add onions and fry just transparent. Add the ground masala.
- Add sambar powder and fry in medium flame for 2 minutes.Add the veggies except cauliflower.
- Fry for 2 minutes and add the drained,soaked rice. Give it a stir.
- Add 1 and 1/2 cups water,salt and mix well. Check for salt and bring to boil.Add the cauliflower at this stage and mix well and cover with the lid.
- Keep the flame in lowest possible. Cook for 8-10 minutes,give a gentle stir in between. If you want to pressure cook with whistle,then give 2 whistles in medium flame.
- Top with ghee and coriander leaves and serve hot with onion raita!
| Variations you can make: - Add chopped tomatoes or a tsp of lemon juice along with the veggies.
- Fry cashews and bread squares in ghee and top the Biryani.
- The water quantity varies with the quality of the basmati rice.
- Soaking the rice for more time gives moist rice and gets cooked easily. So soak as much as possible.
- You can add vegetables of your choice.
- I added cauliflower in the end because,the cauliflower we get here gets mushy soon. If you are using organic cauliflower you can use it along with other veggies.
- You can cook in thin coconut milk instead of water.
- You can also grind 1/4 cup of coconut along with the ingredients to grind.
- Add oil or ghee generously to get rich taste.
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