Vegetable Biryani Recipe

Ingredients :

1. 2 cups of basmati rice
2. Water
3. 2 potatoes
4. 2 medium sized onions
5. 6-7 beans
6. 4-5 carrots
7. 8-10 french peas
8. 1 small cauliflower
9. 1 small cabbage
10. 1 medium sized bowl of mushroom
11. 2 cloves
12. 2 green caradom
13. 2 white caradom
14. 1 inch cinnamon
15. 2 Tej Patta
16. 1 tablespoon shahi jeera
17. 2 single javitri
18. 3-4 cashew nuts
19. 3-4 raisins
20. 2-3 almonds
21. 3 tabelspoon ghee
22. Cooking oil
23. Turmeric
24. Chilli powder
25. Garam masala powder
26. Dhaniya powder
27. Jeera powder
28. Salt as per the taste

Detailed Process :

1. Take a cutting and cut all the vegetables in small size. Wash all of them and get a pan ready.
2. Meanwhile soak the basmati rice for 30 minutes or so in the water.
3. Heat the pan and add cooking oil and ghee
4. Heat cashew nuts, raisins and almonds and fry them a little and take them out
5. Now add small cut vegetables and fry them a little in the oil and ghee mixture
6. Add a little salt and turmeric and let the vegetables fry by covering them
7. After 5 minutes add jeera powder, dhaniya powder and give a toss to the vegetables and cover them and let them cook
8. In another pan add cloves, green and white caradom, cinnamon, shahi jeera, Tej Patta and Javitri to crackle in the oil
9. Add the soaked rice and let it fry for some time
10. Now add water and let the rice boil.
11. Keep checking the rice since we want the rice to be half cooked and not full cooked
12. Add sliced onions and fry them till they turn brown. Top the onions with salt so that and let it caramelize completely.
13. Now, in a big biryani bowl first add layer of vegetables then finely chopped coriander and mint leaves then a layer of half cooked rice top it with some ghee and repeat the same layering. Juts replace the coriander and mint leaves with caramelized onions.
14. Serve your vegetable biryani with raita or curd