Simple veg biryani recipe | How to make biryani-Stepwise Pictures [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

• Basmati rice – 1 ½ cup
• Water – 2 ¼ cup
• Onion – 1 [sliced]
• Tomato – 1 [chopped]
• Green chilli – 1 [slit]
• Ginger – 1 tbsp [chopped, or grated]
• Garlic – 1 tbsp [mashed or grated]
• Potato – ¼ cup [cut into cubes]
• Carrot – ¼cup [cut into cubes]
• Soya chunks [Meal maker] – ½ cup
• Beans – ¼ cup [chopped]
• Green peas – ¼ cup
• Green cardamom - 3
• Star anise – ½ flower
• Cloves - 3
• Cinnamon stick – 1
• Bay leaves - 1
• Stone flower - 1
• Fennel seeds – 1 tbsp
• Curd – 2 tbsp
• Mint leaves [peppermint] – 15
• Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
• Red chilli powder – ½ tsp
• Garam masala powder – 1 tsp
• Butter – 2 inch cube
• Oil – 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste

Preparation Method

• Wash & soak basmati rice for ½ an hour.
• Boil water then cut off heat. Put soya chunks & then leave it for 5 min. Then Squeeze water & keep it aside.
• Heat pressure cooker with oil & butter. Add green cardamom, fennel seeds, cinnamon stick, cloves, bay leaves, star anise, stone flower sauté. Then add onion sauté till light brown then add ginger & garlic.
• Add green chilli, potato, carrot, beans, & green peas sauté well. Then add tomato sauté till soft.
• Add Soya chunks, mint leaves, garam masala & red chilli powder mix well. Then add salt, 2 tbsp curd & water mix well & let it boil.
• When boiling add basmati rice mix gently & cover it & cook for 3 to 4 whistles.
• Sprinkle mint leaves, lemon juice mix gently then serve hot with any raita.
  

How to make simple veg biryani recipe- Stepwise procedure & pictures

Aromatic spices for biryani

Chopped vegetables & Green peas

Cooking Butter

Chopped Tomato

Mint Leaves [Pudina]

Ginger, Garlic & green chilli

Sliced Onion

Soya chunks[Soaked in Boiled or water then squeezed]

Heat Pressure cooker, add Oil & Butter

Add aromatic spices

Add onion & saute

Add ginger, garlic & green chilli

Add vegetables[Carrot,beans,potato,carrot]

Add Tomato

Add soya chunks

Add mint leaves

Add garam masala powder

Add red chilli powder

Add salt & mix well

Add water & curd mix well & let it boil

When boiling, add basmati rice

Gently mix

Add mint leaves, cover it & cook for 4 whistles

After 4 whistles - perfectly cooked biryani

Add chopped mint leaves

Add lemon juice & gently mix

Simple veg biryani is ready to serve