Veg Biriyani

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Pamper yourself with this mouthwatering Veg Biryani recipe prepared by stir frying the cooked rice with vegetables, whole spices and relishing it hot with chopped coriander leaves as garnish.

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Ingredients

1 cup rice (chawal)
2 pinches of saffron (kesar) strands
2 onions, sliced
2 tbsp broken cashewnuts (kaju)
2 tbsp raisins (kismis)
3 tomatoes, finely chopped
2 capsicums, sliced
1 1/2 cups boiled mixed vegetables
1 tbsp chopped coriander (dhania)
a little milk
4 tbsp ghee
salt to taste

To be ground into a paste
6 cloves of garlic (lehsun)
25 mm. piece of ginger (adrak)
3 cardamoms (elaichi)
4 green chillies
3 cloves (laung / lavang)
1 tbsp poppy seeds (khus-khus)
2 cinnamon (dalchini) sticks
1/2 tsp turmeric powder (haldi)
1/2 tsp chilli powder
2 onions
6 mint leaves (phudina)

Method

You can take cauliflower, carrots, potatoes, green peas as the mixed vegetables.
Boil the rice.
Each grain of the cooked rice should be separate. drain and cool.
Warm the saffron in a small vessel, add a little water and rub until it dissolves.
Add the saffron liquid and salt to the cooked rice. mix well.
Heat the ghee and fry the onions until brown.
Remove the onions and in the same ghee, add the cashewnuts and raisins and fry for a few seconds.
Remove and keep aside for decoration.
In the same ghee, add the paste and fry for 3 to 4 minutes.
Add the tomatoes and capsicum and fry again for 2 to 3 minutes.
If you like, sprinkle a little water. add the boiled vegetables and coriander and cook for a while.

How to proceed

Put 2 tablespoons of ghee at the bottom of a baking bowl.
Make layers of the rice and vegetables, beginning and ending with rice.
Sprinkle a little milk on top. cover and bake in a hot oven at 200 degree c (400 degree f) for 15 to 20 minutes
You can take cauliflower, carrots, potatoes, green peas as the mixed vegetables.
Boil the rice. each grain of the cooked rice should be separate.
Drain and cool.
Warm the saffron in a small vessel, add a little water and rub until it dissolves.
Add the saffron liquid and salt to the cooked rice.
Mix well.
Heat the ghee and fry the onions until brown. remove the onions and in the same ghee, add the cashewnuts and raisins and fry for a few seconds.
Remove and keep aside for decoration.
In the same ghee, add the paste and fry for 3 to 4 minutes. add the tomatoes and capsicum and fry again for 2 to 3 minutes.
If you like, sprinkle a little water.
Add the boiled vegetables and coriander and cook for a while.

This recipe was contributed by namratacom on 15 May 2002

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