Veg Biriyani
Woah!! This is the motivation to cook at its peak, I guess. If not what else would explain the enthusiasm to cook Veg Biriyani! that too for a newbie like me, it an Everest. But as Zakir Khan said "Bhai tumhara fighter h!" Hah! I made it ! and it tasted good enough to remember and share! here you go, the recipe:
Ingredients:
Basmati Rice - 1 cup; Water - 1.5 cup
Salt - You will need it, keep it handy.
Carrot - 1/2
Potato (aaloo) - 1
Green pea (mutter) - Half cup
Onion - 2
Chilies - 6
Coriander - some.
Firstly take a cup and fill it with the Basmati Biriyani rice and put it in electric cooker, take water with the same cup and put in cooker, now take another half cup of water ( we are adding less than what's normal as we need stiffer and separate grains of rice) and put in the cooker, add 1/4 tsp of salt to the rice, do not start the electric cooker, not yet. keep them still for another 20 minutes. Till then you can clean the potato and carrot properly; ensure there is no dirt on them, cut them to small pieces. For carrot: half an inch would be perfect whereas for potato: a little larger than carrot; meaning half to one inch. The logic is, the smaller the pieces are the faster they get cooked on the stove. Peel off the Mutter and collect the seeds in a bowl, cut the chilies lengthwise. Peel off the opening layer of Onions and cut them lengthwise too i.e, from top to bottom, so that you will get longer and thinner pieces. take the coriander and cut them a few times, strands are not a problem, let them be. Put all the vegetables aside. by now, I guess the timer ticks 20 min mark, you may now turn on the electric cooker.
Take a pan, put 2 scoops of ghee if its winter or two spoons of ghee if its summer! LOL Ghee gets solid in winter you piece of ****. Add 4 spoons of oil in the pan, what are you waiting for? light the damn thing up. Wait till the oil gets hot. Now, put the onions in the pan. Take start to make a sound: that's what they do when you fry them. Stir occasionally and always remember "DO NOT burn the onions" add a pinch of salt to onions, they get fried faster that way. Get them to the sweet spot, the Golden brown that's the closest color to a golden brown that I could find in blogger.
Take the vegetables (carrot, mutter and the Potato) that we cut previously and add them to fry with the onions, mix them properly and remember to put the stove in the sim (less flame) and leave them
(cover with a lid) for a minute. Look and check if the pieces are soft enough (if you can cut them with a spoon) then add the ginger-garlic paste in them. Mix them thoroughly, put the stove in high flame and keep on stirring for some time. ( till there is no RAW smell from the vegetables and the ginger garlic paste and you don't see any water in the vegetables, can't help if you have a nose block! ROFL) Put the flame in sim and keep the stirring thing going occasionally till all the pieces are properly cooked. Put the stove in sim again and add 1/4 spoon of Garam masala and 1 spoon of Biriyani masala, to the vegetables. Mix properly from down to up so that the ginger garlic paste doesn't get burnt at the bottom. The frying must be done from bottom to top then scraping the sides to the bottom again. Ensure the Masalas are properly over all the pieces. Check the taste of it and add some salt if required. By now, your rice would have been cooked. Add the rice into the pan and mix it gently from bottom to the top like I said earlier. Mix the rice very gently as you don't want a broken or a paste of rice in the Biriyani. Once you are done with the mixing, add some coriander, leave the flame in sim. leave it be for another 5 minutes (put a lid on it) so that the masalas seeps through the rice. The masalas by now must be evenly spread throughout the rice. Turn off the stove and serve hot.
Ingredients:
Basmati Rice - 1 cup; Water - 1.5 cup
Salt - You will need it, keep it handy.
Carrot - 1/2
Potato (aaloo) - 1
Green pea (mutter) - Half cup
Onion - 2
Chilies - 6
Coriander - some.
Firstly take a cup and fill it with the Basmati Biriyani rice and put it in electric cooker, take water with the same cup and put in cooker, now take another half cup of water ( we are adding less than what's normal as we need stiffer and separate grains of rice) and put in the cooker, add 1/4 tsp of salt to the rice, do not start the electric cooker, not yet. keep them still for another 20 minutes. Till then you can clean the potato and carrot properly; ensure there is no dirt on them, cut them to small pieces. For carrot: half an inch would be perfect whereas for potato: a little larger than carrot; meaning half to one inch. The logic is, the smaller the pieces are the faster they get cooked on the stove. Peel off the Mutter and collect the seeds in a bowl, cut the chilies lengthwise. Peel off the opening layer of Onions and cut them lengthwise too i.e, from top to bottom, so that you will get longer and thinner pieces. take the coriander and cut them a few times, strands are not a problem, let them be. Put all the vegetables aside. by now, I guess the timer ticks 20 min mark, you may now turn on the electric cooker.
Take a pan, put 2 scoops of ghee if its winter or two spoons of ghee if its summer! LOL Ghee gets solid in winter you piece of ****. Add 4 spoons of oil in the pan, what are you waiting for? light the damn thing up. Wait till the oil gets hot. Now, put the onions in the pan. Take start to make a sound: that's what they do when you fry them. Stir occasionally and always remember "DO NOT burn the onions" add a pinch of salt to onions, they get fried faster that way. Get them to the sweet spot, the Golden brown that's the closest color to a golden brown that I could find in blogger.
Take the vegetables (carrot, mutter and the Potato) that we cut previously and add them to fry with the onions, mix them properly and remember to put the stove in the sim (less flame) and leave them
(cover with a lid) for a minute. Look and check if the pieces are soft enough (if you can cut them with a spoon) then add the ginger-garlic paste in them. Mix them thoroughly, put the stove in high flame and keep on stirring for some time. ( till there is no RAW smell from the vegetables and the ginger garlic paste and you don't see any water in the vegetables, can't help if you have a nose block! ROFL) Put the flame in sim and keep the stirring thing going occasionally till all the pieces are properly cooked. Put the stove in sim again and add 1/4 spoon of Garam masala and 1 spoon of Biriyani masala, to the vegetables. Mix properly from down to up so that the ginger garlic paste doesn't get burnt at the bottom. The frying must be done from bottom to top then scraping the sides to the bottom again. Ensure the Masalas are properly over all the pieces. Check the taste of it and add some salt if required. By now, your rice would have been cooked. Add the rice into the pan and mix it gently from bottom to the top like I said earlier. Mix the rice very gently as you don't want a broken or a paste of rice in the Biriyani. Once you are done with the mixing, add some coriander, leave the flame in sim. leave it be for another 5 minutes (put a lid on it) so that the masalas seeps through the rice. The masalas by now must be evenly spread throughout the rice. Turn off the stove and serve hot.
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