Recipe Name: Vegetable Biryani

Recipe Name: Vegetable Biryani

Cuisine: Indian

Serves: 4

Ingredients: 

• 2 cups Basmati Rice
• 2 medium onions (finely chopped)
• 2 large tomatoes (finely chopped)
• 1 cups mixed vegetables (potato, cauliflower, green peas, carrot - all chopped)
• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• 1 tbsp biryani masala (I prefer Everest Biryani Masala)
• 4 tbsp Oil 
• 1/4 cup curd
• Salt to taste

How to cook?

1. Wash and soak rice for 10 mins.
2. Drain water and cook rice in fresh water with salt added.
3. Drain water. Cool.
4. Cook the mixed vegetables in a vessel for about 10 minutes.
5. Heat oil in a pan.
6. Fry onions till they turn pink and soft.
7. Add ginger garlic paste and saute till the raw smell of garlic goes off.
8. Add tomatoes, chilli powder and biryani masala powder. Saute till the tomatoes becomes soft and oil separates.
9. Add curd and salt and mix well.
10. Add the chopped mixed vegetables. Mix well.
11. Add half of the rice and mix well.
12. Add remaining rice.
13. Add ghee and mix well.
14. Let it cook for 2-3 more minutes.
15. Switch off the stove.
16. Serve hot with onion raita.