Vegetable  Biryani is a flavoursome, layered rice cooked with vegetables and spices and  saffron infused. It makes a tasty dinner menu with a yoghurt based salad.

Biryani is a popular food loved and cherished  Indian food.  It is a mixed rice dish made with meat, rice and some spices cooked in dum usually. The vegetarian biryani with vegetables is made to cater to the other sect of indivduals who do not eat meat.  It is a dish which gained popularity in Hyderabad during the Nizam period and till date is the most ordered dish online. 

Usually made with meat, here is the vegetable biryani or veg biryani as it is commonly called.

veg biryani

Ingredients :

• 2 cups of uncooked basmati rice (aromatic long rice)
• 2 cups of assorted veggies as beans, carrots, cauliflower,potatoes and peas
• 1 onion
• 3 green chillies
• 2 inch ginger     
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 3 cloves
• 3 cardamom
• 1 stick of cinnamon
• 2 tomatoes
• 3 tbsp oil
• ½ cup curds or yoghurt
• 2 tbsp oil for cooking
• salt

For garnishing:

• Fresh chopped mint leaves
• Caramalised  onions

Method:

Pre-requsites: 

• Cook the rice with only two cups of water. It is partially cooked, on further cooking it will be evenly done.
• Cut veggies into small cubes.
• Grind onion, green chillies, ginger and garlic into a fine paste.
• Boil the vegetables in a pan. Add the potatoes, a little later as they should be a little firm.
• Make powder of clove, cinnamon and cardamom.
• Make puree of tomato and keep aside.

Cooking procedure :

• Now take oil in a pressure pan and add the paste of onion. Saute it till light pink in colour.
• Then add the pound spices and continue to sauté.
• Later add turmeric powder, coriander powder and chilli powder.
• Add tomato puree,mint leaves and yoghurt and continue to blend the mixture.
• As the aroma spreads add the boiled veggies, and the partially cooked rice.
• Close the lid and allow to cook on a slow flame.
• Once done, mix the rice well as the masala needs to blend well.
• Garnish with caramalised onions.
• Biryani is ready to serve.

To make caramalised onions :

Cut onions into thin long pieces. Take oil in a small pan and add the onions. Saute them until dark brown in colour. Be careful as they tend to get burnt easily.

To Serve :

  Serve biryani  garnished with onions along  with a yoghurt based salad of your choice.

About the event :

Sending this to Foodies_Redoing Old Post 129. It is a fortnightly event, where we work on an old post by editing with better pictures or text. Here, I have put better pictures and a lot of formatting had to be done. This is one of the first posts writtwen in 2014, edited today on 17/6/2024.  Phew, this is thee year of my blogging.

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