Thursday, January 28, 2010

Simple Veg. Biryani

Tried and tasted by Nivedita,
Hi All,
A very simple and easy rice for lunch box. 


Without much introduction or back ground, I am coming to the recipe,
Long grain rice - 200 gm
All vegetables of your choice - 200gm, wash and cut into cubes
(I used Potato, beans, carrot and peas)
Onion - 1 small thinly sliced
Green chilly - 1cut into long slit (if making for kids or 2 for elders)
Tomato - 1 medium, chopped
Ghee - 1 tbsp
Oil - 1 tbsp
Tej Patta or bay leaf - 1
Fresh cream - 1 tbsp
Salt to taste
For Biryani dry masala,
Fennel seeds -1/2 tsp

Cumin seeds / Jeera -1/2 tsp

Shahjeera/Caraway seeds – 1/2 tsp

Cloves - 4
Cardamom -1
Cinnamon (1” inch length) - 1
Grated nutmeg -1/4 tsp (optional)

Grind everything into fine powder.
Taken from this and originally from this.



Wash the rice. Remove water and keep it to dry for half an hour or at least for 15 minutes.
Heat oil and ghee in a kadai. Add Onion and bay leaf. Fry till golden brown. Add tomato, green chilly and 1/2 tsp of ground masala.

Add all the vegetables and fry for a minute. Now goes the rice. Mix the rice with all the vegetables. Add salt, a table spoon of ready masala powder. Mix and add cream. Fry for a minute
Add hot water till the rice is covered. Close the lid and give just one whistle.
When done, serve hot with curd and onion raita or send it to lunch box for kids.(It is in my daughter's menu) 
This is flying to silpa of Anita' s Kitchen  APS- Rice Event.

Keep smiling,

10 comments:

Nithu Bala said...

Wow! this looks delicious...

Priya Suresh said...

Beautiful veg biryani, looks fantastic..

Rachana said...

Delicious Biryani!!!

Silpa said...

Love the simplicity of the dish..
thx for the entry..

Hayley said...

lovely and yummy rice...i'm a rice fan...looks delicious

Padma said...

Looks so yumm, yumm and nice recipe.

Hamaree Rasoi said...

really Biryani looks delicious

Shanthi Krishnakumar said...

can I come to your house to have it?

Malar Gandhi said...

Same pinch, me too posted today 'boxed lunch'...veg biriyani looks perfect:)

Ramya Vijaykumar said...

Biriyani looks very comforting and wonderful color too!!!

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