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Healthy Food Recipes - Vegetable Rice / Vegetable Biriyani
Posted on: 20/Mar/2015 12:50:38 PM
Ingredients:
- Raw Rice / Basmati Rice – 2 Cups
- Onion – 2 nos
- Tomato – 1 no
- Beans, Carrot, Potato chopped – 1 small cup (Each)
- Bay Leaf – 1
- Fennel Seeds – 1 tsp
- Cinnamon – a small piece
- Cloves – a few
- Green Chilli – 1
- Turmeric Power – ½ tsp
- Sambar Powder – 1 tbsp
- Garam Masala – ½ tsp
- Salt – as needed
- Cooking oil – 5 tbsp
- Ghee – 1 tbsp
To Grind:
- Onion – 1 small
- Tomato – 1 small
- Coriander leaves – a handful
- Mint leaves – a handful
- Cloves – 2
- Cinnamon – a small piece
- Fennel Seeds – 1/2 tsp
- Cardamom – 1 (optional)
- Ginger – 1 inch long
- Garlic – 15 cloves
Method of Preparation:
- Thoroughly wash and soak either raw rice or basmati rice in water for about 20 minutes.
- Wash and finely chop all the needed vegetables and keep aside.
- Take all the ingredients given under the ‘to grind’ section in a mixer and grind it well without addition of water.
- Heat a heavy bottomed pan or pressure cooker and add 5 tbsp of oil to it. Add bay leaf, cloves, cinnamon and Fennel seeds. Once it splutters add splinted green chilli, chopped onion and sauté well.
- Then add the grinded paste to it and stir well for a minute.
- Now add the chopped tomato and sauté well until tomato shrinks and the raw smell leaves.
- Add all the chopped vegetables and stir well for about 2 to 3 minutes, while keeping the stove in low flame.
- Then add turmeric powder, Sambar powder, Garam masala and salt to taste.
- Stir continuously until the contents gets mixed well.
- Add the soaked and drained rice to it and mix well.
- Add water to a measure of 3 ¾ cups. (Generally we can add 3 ¾ to 4 cups of water for 2 cups of rice. You can adjust the measure of the water based on your taste whether you want dry rice or mushy rice)
- Check the salt and spicy flavour of the dish by tasting the water on top of the rice in the pressure cooker. Actually salt and spicy tang should be little bit more, finally it will be good while blended with the cooked rice.
- Pressure cook the rice for about 1 whistle and keep the flame low for 5 minutes.
- Then open the lid and add 1 spoon of ghee.
- Serve hot Vegetable Biriyani with brinjal gravy or curd salad!
Tips:
- You can also add green peas, cauliflower, and capsicum while preparing vegetable biriyani.
- For distinct taste, you can reduce the measure of tomato and add either curd or lemon juicice just before closing the cooker lid.
- You can also avoid adding turmeric powder, sambar powder and increase the quantity of green chilli.
- Since we have grinded both the coriander leaves and mint leaves, biriyani will look greenish and very attractive too.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
