Biryani/Vegetable Biryani(Step By Step Pics)

             To cook a perfect biryani is very hard(at least to me). In Tamilnadu muslim Biryani is very famous. Most popular biryani joints have a version of Muslim biryani. Going to India every time to eat good biryani  is out of the question but in this social media world we can accomplish anything right?
            A small story about biryani .. right after our graduation a good friend of mine got married . He was the first person from our batch to get married , many of us attended the marriage. This was a muslim wedding mind you and people were drooling about the biryani lunch. But little did I know that it would only be a Biryani lunch with sides and desserts of course. As you guys know I am a hardcore veggie and I expected a few veg dishes. Any ways to cut the long story short few friends of mine went to a local joint and got me some veggie food. All my friends made fun of me saying that I was the first and only person who ate a veggie lunch in a Muslim wedding!
       Coming to the biryani, I am no expert in biryani cooking. My husband makes a super tasty Vegetable biryani. This time he made it in a pressure cooker and I captured it. Pressure cooker Vegetable Biriyani was so tasty .

Some easy one pot meals

1. Mushroom fried rice
2. Peas pulao/rice(no coconut)
3. Lime rice
4. Coconut rice 
5. Mint pulao/rice(no coconut)
6. Bisibelabath 
7. Mushroom Biriyani  
8. Vegetable Pulov/With coconut

 

Preparation time:10 min+20 min soaking time
Cooking time:30 min
Serves:2- 3

Ingredients:

• 2 cups basmati rice (soaked for 20 min)
• 3 cup water
• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste/Ingi poondu viluthu
• 1 large onion/vengayam
• 1 plum tomato/Thakali
• 2 green chilies/Pacha molakai
• 1/4 tsp chili powder(not needed for reduced spice level)
• salt as per taste

For marination:

• 2 tsp biriyani masala
• 2 tsp curd/yogurt
• 2 cups chopped vegetables(carrot,potato,peas,beans etc)
• 20 mint leaves

For tempering:

• 1 tsp ghee/nei
• 1 tbsp oil
• 2 clove/Krambu
• 1 cardamom/Elakai
• 1 cinnamon stick(1 inch)/Pattai
• 1 Star anise/annasi poo

Method:

• Couldn't get a better picture of the vegetables used for biriyani .So linking other picture 

• Wash and soak the basmati rice for 20 min and filter the excess water out .

• Start cutting the vegetables .
• Marinate them with yogurt ,masala and mint leaves .

• prepare ginger garlic paste .
• Cut onions and tomato.
• In a large pressure cooker(7 lit) add ghee and oil .
• Add all the tempering items (clove,cardamom,cinnamon ,star anise) and wait for a minute to get a nice aroma .

•  Add ginger garlic paste .

• Add onions and saute until its translucent.

• Add tomato and cook it until mushy.

• Add marinated vegetables and saute it for a minute or 2 .

• Add  basmati rice and saute it for 2-3 minutes .

• Don't saute too much (rice may break down)
• Add 3 cups of water ,chili powder and salt .

• Check everything (salt ,spice) when it comes to boil .
• Add whistle and wait for the pressure built up .
• After the pressure builds up reduce the flame and let it cook for 5 minutes in very low flame .
• Switch of the flame .
• After the pressure releases you can serve it .

• Serve it with raitha of your choice.

 

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