Sunday, February 28, 2010

veg dum biryani

Enjoy holi with colorful veg dum biryani!!!



Ingredients :

rice - 3cups
potatos - 3-4
carrots - 3
peas - 1cup
onion - 1 big
green chillies - 6
ginger garlic paste - 2tbs
curd - 1/2cup
garam masala - 11/2tbs (divided)
red chilly powder  - 1/2tsp
turmeric - 1/2tsp
salt - 3tsp(divided)
cinnamon stisk - 1"piece
cloves - 6
star anise - 1 whole
orange food colour  - 1/4tsp
coriander leaves / cilantro - few springs
mint - few sprigs
oil - 5 -6 tbs


              (These are  very old  potato , so some buds are going on top  . I don't know whether they are edible or not so I removed buds and used the potatos)

Pre preperation  :
  • Finely slice onions and saute until brown color   (takes about 3tbs of oil) .

  • Chop potatos and carrots in to bite size cutes and saute them saperately until they leaves it rew smell(takes about 1tbs of oil each)

  • Saute peas until 2 minutes (about 1 tbs of oil)

  • In small bowl , take curd and add garam masala (1tbs) , salt , red chilly powder , turmeric , ginger garlic paste and mix well  . Add this curd mixture to the sautes veggies and marrinate for 30 minutes .

  • Mean while take water in big pot and bring it to boil . When water is boiling add salt(2tsp) , cinnamon stick , cloves , star anise  and rice and stirr well and let it cook until rice is 80%cooked .
  • Once rice is cooked , drain off the rice in a colinder .

  • Chop coriander leaves , mint leaves and slit green chilles .
  • divide sauted onions , chopped coriande , mint leaves , slit green chillies in to 3 parts .

For dum :
  • Preheat oven on 425 f .
  • In a oven safe tray , spread the marinated veggies as bottom layer (spread it evenly) .

  • On top of veggies , sprinkle 1/3 of the onions , mint and coriander leaves , split green chilles .

  • now spread half of the cooked rice on top of  it .(spread evenly) and sprinkle pinch of garam masala on top .

  • Again sprinkle another 1/3rd of the mint , coriander leaves , onions , green chilles on the rice .

  • Take another half of the rice and spread it evenly .
  • take remaining onions , mint , coriander leaves , split green chillies and sprinkle over top of the rice .
  • If you are using color , disolve the colour in 2tbs of water and sprinkle over the top of rice .

  • Now cover the tray with foil and put it in oven and bake it  for 20 minutes .

  • After 20 minutes , carefully  take it out from the oven and mix  the rice and veggies until they all are mixed well and cover it and bake it again for 10 minutes .

  • Now biryani is done .
Serve  steaming hot veg biryani with chicken curry  / kurma /gravy and raita

Veg bum biryani with onion tomato gravy and raita .
NOTE :
      - can use any oyher veggies like cauliflowe , bell peppers , cabbage , brocalini ....
      - I used dried peas . if using so soak them for 5 hrs and boil until cooked and use .
      - Use spices according to your taste .
      - Can use saffron instead of colour . Just soask in warm water / milk for 15 minutes before using .

            

26 comments:

  1. Wow! Biriyani looks fantastic! What have u kept on the top of potatoes in the second picture.

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  2. Happy holi!!!and biryani too looks colourful and delicious..love dum biryani

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  3. Biryani looks delicious.Nice step by step instructions.

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  4. thanq paddu for paying lot attension on pics
    the potatos I used are month old so some buds comming out them(i did'nt put any thing)

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  5. i adore ur patience in taking pic..nice job and biriyani looks yummy..and gorgeous.

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  6. Fabulous biryani.Great idea to Dum in the oven.Its less messy

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  7. Dum Briyani looks so lovely..for a second I thought "Oh is it meat?" looking at the fried Onions ;)

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  8. Dum Biryani looks so so beautiful....like to have it right now.....

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  9. Fantastic..Love love dum biryani...Just a thought..If you have green parts along with the buds, I read somewhere that you are not supposed to eat it..Because the proteins get changed there it seems, but if it's only the buds, I think it's ok if you remove the buds :-)

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  10. the biryani looks delicious.keep some for me.

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  11. Simply inviting, great step-by-instructions.

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  12. thanq gulmohar for doing research on potato buds and letting me n world know about it .

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  13. Yum, yum, yummy! that does look great.

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  14. First time here....

    Dum Biryani looks spicy and delicious.

    Love ur step by step clicks

    ArunaManikandan

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  15. wow superb mouthwatering biryani...looks very tempting....lovely recipe with kul pice...loved this biryani...nice one

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  16. First time here and loved all ur interesting and easy recipes. Absolutely delicious biryani. Your clicks are amazing and admired ur patience in clicking step by step. Following u :):)

    Chitchat
    http://chitchatcrossroads.blogspot.com/

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  17. Hey nice blog ur recipe looking good.
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  18. Hats off to u r patience and time...it's been long time i visited here....biryani looks delectable....

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  19. Very Tasty....Thanks for your detailed....recipe...along with pictures

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  20. First of all thanks for the name of the blog.
    Secondly add 1/2 tea spoon of ghee / your fav cooking oil to rice when its cooking, so that rice is not sticky and wont break.
    Lastly regarding the potatoes with green hue the toxin is solanine.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine
    Same goes with eggplant/brinjal which belongs to same family.
    Just my 2 cents being Gunturian first and physician next.

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    1. thanq for taking ur time and educating me about potato buds and happy to meet people from guntur through my blog.

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  21. Wowww looks so yummyyyy happy to find such a yummy blog :)

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