Hey Readers!
We have a guest post today by a very talented Archana Bhargava; an Arts Graduate from Home Science College Jabalpur. Her cooking journey started at a very young age, she was 6 when she made her First Chapati :) and then helping her seniors in school during Home Science Practicals. Archana is surely a bundle of talent.
Here's her take on Mouthwatering Veg Biryani with Mix Veg Raita!
Ingredients:
For rice:
- 2 cups basmati rice
- 1 tsp oil
- Salt to taste
- 4 cloves
- 3 green cardamom
- 8 black peppercorns
- Water as required
Method:
- Wash rice and soak for half an hour.
- In a heavy base pan heat oil then add all the spices, salt and cook until cooked 80%, keep aside cooked.
For Barista (fried onions):
- 8 medium size onions
- Oil for deep frying
Method:
- Peel onions and slice finely in equal thickness.
- Spread the sliced onions on a piece of cloth for drying for two hours.
- Heat oil on high and put sliced onions for frying in small batches, put the flame on low and let them fry till brown and crispy.
For vegetables:
- 12 baby potatoes
- 1 medium sized cauliflower florets
- 1 carrot
- 12 beans
- 1cup peas
Method:
- Peel potatoes and deep fry them on low flame till completely cooked.
- Fry cauliflower florets.
- Cut carrot beans into stripes and boil them with peas and strain.
Other ingredients:
- 4 big tomatoes puree
- 1 tbsp garlic paste
- 1 tbsp green chilly ginger paste
- 1 tsp red chilly powder
- 2 tsp coriander powder
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp garam masala
- 1/2 tsp green cardamom powder
- 12 cashews fried
- 1/2 cup mint leaves
- 1 tsp butter
- 2 tbsp Ghee or oil
- 1tsp cumin seeds
- 4 cloves
- 8 black peppercorns
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 3 black cardamom
- 10-15 strands saffron
- 1 cup milk
Method for cooking vegetables:
Heat oil in a pan, add whole spices, let them splutter, add garlic paste cook till it changes colour, add green chilly ginger paste, saute for a minute, then add dry spices and tomato paste, saute till oil separates. Then add one and half cup fried onions and all vegetables with salt as required.
For assembling:
- Take a microwave proof bowl, grease with butter.
- Put one layer of vegetables, then rice, sprinkle pinch of garam masala, mint leaves, fried onions.
- Repeat the layering process, top it with fried cashews, little butter, saffron soaked in warm milk (this will maintain moisture and also enhances taste).
- Now cover the bowl with cling wrap and micro for 6-7min.
It is ready to serve.
For raita:
- 1 cucumber finely chopped
- 1 tomato finely chopped
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 1 boiled potato finely chopped
- Few mint leaves
- Salt to taste
- 1tsp cumin powder
- 1tsp red chilly powder
- 1tbsp roasted crushed peanuts
- 1tsp sugar
- 2 cups curd
- Pinch of black salt
- Mix curd with salt, black salt, red chilly powder, cumin powder.
- Add rest of the ingredients and mix well .
- Ready to serve.
Thank you for sharing the detailed instructions of vegetable biryani mix vegetable raita. Rice has always been a staple on our table since I was little. The recipe I admire the most that involves rice is Gosht biryani . It’s delectable! You will definitely like it.
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