I recently started sharing recipes I like on Designing Life.
So did you try the Pasta I shared?
Two days back I tried Vegetable Biryani (I love Chicken Biryani though),
and this was no less than the Chicken Biryani! Super Hit!
Try it yourself. I used the following recipe.
Ingredients:
For Rice:
Basmati Rice – 2 cups
Bay Leaf – 1
Cloves
Green Cardamom
Cinnamon Stick
Salt – to taste
Oil – 1 tsp
Mint Leaves – few
Clarified Butter/Ghee – 1 Tbsp
Saffron – 1/4 tsp soaked in 2 Tbsp water
Biryani Masala (as per taste)
For Vegetable Mixture:
Ginger/Garlic Paste – 2 Tbsp
Coriander Powder – 2 tsp
Turmeric Powder – 1/4 tsp
Salt – to taste
Potatoes – 2, peeled and cut into large pieces
Cauliflower – 1/2 medium, cut into big florets
Frozen Green Peas – 1 cup
Green Beans – 1 cup, cut into medium pieces
Carrots – 1/2 cup, cut
Green Chilies – 3 to 4 (or to taste), slit
Mint Leaves – handful
Dried Fenugreek Leaves – 2 Tbsp
Cilantro (Coriander Leaves) – small bunch, chopped
Tomato – 1 large, cut into big pieces
Yogurt – 1 cup, beaten
Oil – 3 Tbsp
Cumin Seeds– 1/2 tsp
Cinnamon Stick – 1 inch piece
Cloves – 4
Black Cardamom – 1
Bay Leaf – 1
Onion – 1 large, sliced
For Garnishing: Fried Onions and chopped Cilantro.
Method:
Soak Saffron in 2 Tbsp of water and set aside.
For the rice:
- Bring enough water to boil and add Cinnamon
Stick, Bay Leaf, Whole Cloves, Green Cardamom, 1 tsp Oil, Salt, drained soaked
rice and a few mint leaves.
- Cook rice for exactly 5 minutes. Drain the water from the
rice and add ghee and mix gently. Rice should be not fully cooked.
For Vegetable Mixture:
- In a bowl, add Ginger/Garlic Paste, Coriander Powder, 1/4
tsp Turmeric Powder, and Salt – mix well.
- Add Potatoes, Cauliflower, Green Peas, Green Beans, Carrots,
Green Chilies, Cilantro, chopped Mint Leaves, Dried Fenugreek Leaves – Mix well
and allow to marinate.
- In a non-stick pan, heat Oil on medium heat.
- Add Cumin Seeds and allow them to sizzle.
- Add Cinnamon Stick, Bay Leaf, Whole Cloves and Black
Cardamom.
- Add Sliced Onions and brown lightly.
- Add 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder, 1 Tbsp Biryani Masala, salt and
mix well.
- Add marinate vegetable mixture and additional salt, mix
thoroughly, cover and cook until the veggies are 3/4 cooked.
- Switch off stove and add Tomatoes and lightly beaten Yogurt
and mix gently.
- Coat bottom and sides of a baking dish with spray cooking
oil or simple oil you use (to avoid sticking).
- Layer bottom of baking dish with 1/3 of cooked rice.
- Sprinkle 1 tsp of Biryani Masala on the rice.
- Layer 1/2 of the vegetable mixture over the rice and
sprinkle Fried Onions on top.
- Layer another 1/3 cooked rice over the veggies and sprinkle
1 tsp Biryani Masala.
- Layer remaining vegetable mixture and sprinkle Fried Onions
on top.
- Layer remaining 1/3 cooked rice and sprinkle 1 tsp Biryani
Masala.
- Drizzle Saffron water over the rice, more Fried Onions and
garnish with cilantro.
- Cover and cook for 30 minutes in a preheated 400 degree
Fahrenheit oven. (every oven is different, keep an eye)
Serve with Raita.
ENJOY!!
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