Green gram biryani | Pachai payaru biryani | Pasi payaru biryani [Easy lunch box recipe]

Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, South India | Cooking Time: 15 to 20 minutes | To Serve: 3 | Take with: Kurma, raita,pachadi | Type: Lunch

Ingredients

• Green gram [pachai payaru, matki dal] – ½ cup
• Basmati rice – 1 cup
• Tomato– 1 [chopped]
• Onion – 1 [sliced]
• Carrot – 1 [peeled & cut into cubes]
• Potato – 1 [peeled & cut into cubes]
• French beans – ¼ cup [chopped]
• Ginger & garlic – 1 tbsp [finely chopped, mashed]
• Green chilli – 1 [slit]
• Mint leaves – 5 springs
• Red chilli powder – ½ tsp
• Garam masala powder – ½ tbsp
• Cinnamon stick - 1
• Green Cardamom - 2
• Cloves - 3
• Fennel seeds – 1 tbsp
• Bay leaves - 1
• Cashew nuts – 5 [ghee roasted]
• Curd – 1 tbsp
• Water- 2 cups
• Lemon juice – ½ tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Butter or ghee – 1 tbsp

Preparation Method

• Wash & soak basmati rice for ½ an hour. Dry roast green gram, Wash & soak for 3 hours.
• Heat pressure cooker with oil & butter. Add green cardamom, fennel seeds, cinnamon stick, cloves, & bay leaves, sauté. Then add onion sauté till light brown then add ginger & garlic.
• Add green chilli, potato, carrot, green gram, mint leaves & french beans, sauté well. Add tomato sauté.
• Then add red chilli powder & garam masala powder sauté.
• Then add water, salt & 2 tbsp curd mix well, & let it boil.
• When boiling add basmati rice, mint leaves, cover it & cook for 3 to 4 whistles.
• Sprinkle mint leaves, lemon juice gently mix then serve hot with any raita.
  

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