Vegetable Biryani -Vegetable Biryani Recipe - How to prepare vegetable biryani

A very simple and easy Biryani recipe without much spices .This goes well with raitha, papads and chips. If you have all the vegetables cut and kept ready, then it hardly takes 10 minutes to prepare this. Even bachelors can prepare this as it requires no elaborate grinding of masalas etc. So bachelors out there, do not spoil your health by eating outside often, here is a simple and yummy biryani recipe that can be prepared at home in no time. We had this with mixed vegetable raitha and it tasted awesome. Today we will learn how to make vegetable biryani the easy way.

Vegetable Biryani Recipe-Easy Veg Biryani

 Prep Time : 10 mins

 Cook Time : 30 mins 
 Serves:2
 Recipe Category: Biryani Recipes-Lunch
 Recipe Cuisine: Indian
 Author:Padhu Sankar

   Ingredients needed

   Basmati rice – 1 cup
   Onion – 1
   Green chilli - 2 (add more if you want hot)
   Ginger-garlic paste - 2 ½ tsp
   Tomato-1
   Mixed Vegetables -2 cups
   Mint / pudina leaves – handful
   Coriander leaves – handful
   Lemon juice -1 tbsp

   Turmeric powder – a pinch
   Red chilli powder -1 tsp
   Coriander powder – 2 tsp
   Biriyani masala – 2 tsp (Available readymade)
   Salt as required

   For the seasoning

   Oil – 1 tbsp
   Cloves -3
   Cardamom -1
   Cinnamon – 1 inch piece

    For Garnishing

   Fried onions (optional)

Preparations

How to prepare fried onions for garnishing -Cut onions into thin strips and fry it in oil until golden brown. Add it before serving.

Cut carrots, beans and potatoes lengthwise. Chop tomatoes. You can use a mix of carrot, beans, cauliflower, fresh peas and potatoes for making this veg biryani.

Wash and soak basmati rice for 20 minutes, drain the water and keep it aside.

Wash cauliflowers,cut it into florets and put it in boiling water with a little salt for 5 minutes. Drain the water and keep it aside.

If you do not have ginger-garlic paste with you, then grind 1 inch piece of ginger and 5-6 cloves of garlic together.

Method

Heat oil, add cloves, cardamom and cinnamon, saute for a 2-3 seconds, then add onions and sauté till it turns transparent.

Now add ginger-garlic paste and sauté for a few more minutes.

Add green chillies, all the vegetables, chopped tomatoes, turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder, biryani masala, mint and coriander leaves, needed salt and sauté for a few more minutes. Then add 2 cups of boiling water, drained rice and lemon juice.( Check for salt by tasting the water).

Transfer all the contents to a rice cooker and switch on the cooking mode. After it comes to keep warm mode, switch off and mix well gently. Transfer the rice to a hot pack or any other vessel to prevent the bottom from getting burnt.

Garnish with fried onions and serve hot with raitha or papads.

Enjoy preparing this easy biryani recipe!!

Note-

You can pressure cook keeping a vessel inside the cooker or cook it in a pan with lid or you can do everything directly in the rice cooker itself. Since I do not like to cook directly in the rice cooker, I did everything in a pan and transferred it to the rice cooker.

Cooking Biryani in pressure cooker directly -After adding water to the rice, close the cooker without weight. Once rice is half cooked, stir the contents and close it with weight. Keep on low flame for 4-5 minutes and switch it off. Open after the pressure subsides and fluff it with a fork.

Check  How to make Biryani in Pressure cooker (another method with step wise pictures)  or click the picture below to take you to that page.

If you do not know how to use the pressure cooker for cooking rice,check here

Do check my lovely collection of  rice recipes.

Meet you all again with more interesting recipes, until then it is bye from Padhu of Padhuskitchen.