Delightful and tasty veg biryani that tastes just like restaurant biryani that no one can resist or forget once they eat it!
Ingredients:
- Basmati rice - 1.5 cup and 1 bowl water
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 2 bottles of water
- 4-5 onions
- A small flower of cauliflower
- 1 carrot
- 7-8 beans
- 1 block paneer
- 1 tomato
- 1 potato
- 2-3 cashews
For flavouring the rice:
- Bay leaf
- Star anise
- Black cardamom
- Green cardamom
- Black pepper
- Cloves
- ½ tablespoon salt
For seasoning
- ½ tablespoon coriander powder
- ½ tablespoon Kashmiri red chilli powder
- ½ tablespoon jeera powder
- ½ tablespoon black pepper powder
- 1 tablespoon Bhoj Masale biryani masala
- 1 tablespoon curd
- ½ tablespoon ginger garlic paste
- ½ tablespoon turmeric powder
For Biryani base:
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 tablespoon jeera
- Onion
- 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
- 1 green capsicum
- Kasuri methi
- Salt as per taste
For raita:
- 1 bowl curd
- 1 onion diced
- ½ tablespoon chaat masala
- Coriander leaves
For garnishing:
- Fried onion
- Coriander leaves
- 1 small cup kesar milk
- 1 small cup mint and coriander milk
Instructions:
- Wash the rice: Rinse 1.5 cups of basmati rice thoroughly with water. Add some water when it has risen, then let it soak for 15 minutes.
- Prepare the biryani base: In a pan, add 1 tablespoon oil, 1 tablespoon jeera, diced onion and 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste and saute well. Cover and cook for a few minutes.Add half a capsicum diced along with some kasuri methi and cook well.
- Serve it hot along with the raita and experience the taste of restaurant style biryani.
Tips:
- While making biryani, cook the rice only to about 80-90% as it will get cooked even further while mixing it with other ingredients.
- Cut the vegetables in bigger pieces for biryani.
- Add the capsicum in the end so that it does not get overcooked. If it gets overcooked, it changes the entire taste of the recipe.