Veg biryani recipe
Easy and simple Pressure cooker veg biryani recipe
Servings: 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 1 cup basmati rice
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp ghee
- 1 long bay leaf - broken
- 1 inch cinnamon
- 5 no cloves
- 3 no cardamom
- 1 no black cardamom
- 1 tsp shahi jeera
- 1 tbsp curd
- 2 nos onion - thinly sliced
- 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- 1 no carrot - finely chopped
- 5-6 no beans - finely chopped
- 2 no green chilli - slit
- 1 medium potato - finely chopped
- 1/2 cup cauliflower - florets
- salt to taste
- 2 tbsp green peas
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/4 tsp chilli powder
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp Biryani masala
- 1/8 cup curd
- 1.25 cups water
- 1 handful coriander and mint leaves - chopped
- 1/8 tsp rose water
- 1 tbsp ghee
Instructions
- Soak the basmati rice in water for 15 minutes or before you start cooking the dish.
- heat oil+ ghee in a cooker and add in all the whole spices from bay leaf to shahi jeera and add curd to it.
- stir it quickly and add sliced onions immediately. Fry till transparent and add ginger garlic paste to fry till brown.
- Further, add all the vegetables along with salt and fry for a minute or two until slightly roasted.
- goes in all the spice powders: turmeric, chilli, coriander powder, and biryani masala. Mix well and fry for a minute.
- To the vegetable curry, add curd and mix well.
- Measure 1.25 cups water and add it to the cooker.
- Mix well and further adjust salt, add coriander+ mint leaves and also the drained rice.
- mix once and lastly top with a tbsp of ghee.
- close and pressure cook in simmer for 10 minutes. put off the flame. open only after 15 minutes.
- fluff the rice and serve hot with raita.