VEGETABLE BIRYANI

VEGETABLE BIRYANI


 ◆ Ingredients

● Rice - 225gm

● Split green gram - 115gm

● Potatoes - 115gm

● Carrots - 115gm

● Peas - 115gm

● Tomatoes - 115gm

● Onions - 115gm

● Coconut - 1/2

● Cumin - a pinch 

● Chilli powder - a pinch 

● Turmeric - a pinch 

● Sultanas - 10gm

● Cashewnuts - 15gm

● Peanuts - 15gm

● Fat - 100gm

● Curds -75gm

● Salt - to taste


◆ Method

1. Grind together coconut, cumin, turmeric, chilli powder and onions and extract milk.

2. Clean and soak rice and gram.

3. Prepare vegetables and blanch tomatoes. 

4. Heat fat, add peas and carrots. Cook for 5 minutes.

5. Add blanched tomatoes and salt.

6. Cook till peas and carrots are tender.

7. Boil, peel and slice potatoes. Fry in hot fat till brown. Remove.

8. Fry rice and gram-add coconut milk and vegetable stock (3 fingers above rice).

9. When rice is three-fourths done, add cooked vegetables, curds and salt.

10. Cook on a slow fire with live coal on top of the lid. When dry, remove and serve garnished with fried potatoes and fried sultanas, cashewnuts and peanuts.


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