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Vegetable Biryani

Authentic Indian vegetable biryani made the traditional way — no shortcuts, just proper home-cooked flavour.

20 min
Prep
40 min
Cook
Involved
Difficulty
24
Ingredients
9
Steps

Ingredients

Servings
  • Rice - For 1
  • Sauce – For 1
  • 3 tbspn rice
  • 1 tbspn oil
  • 1 tbspn oil
  • 75 gm onion
  • 75 gm onion
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 100 gm frozen peas
  • 1 tspn fresh ginger
  • 4-6 cardamom pods
  • ¼ tspn turmeric
  • ¼ tspn cinnamon
  • ½ tspn paprika
  • ½ tspn cumin seeds
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ¼ tspn salt
  • 1 tbspn chopped tomatoes
  • 120 ml water
  • 1 tspn tomato purée
  • 1 tbspn lemon juice
  • 100 ml water
  • ½ carrot
  • 4 – 6 mushrooms (depends on their size)

Method

  1. 1

    Finely chop the onion.

  2. 2

    Rinse the frozen peas in warm water and drain.

  3. 3

    De-seed the cardamom pods.

  4. 4

    Rinse the rice well and drain.

  5. 5

    Finely chop, crush or grate the garlic.

  6. 6

    Finely chop or grate the ginger.

  7. 7

    Chop the carrot into thin lengths.

  8. 8

    Chop the mushrooms into approx 1 inch pieces (not critical).

  9. 9

    Pre-heat the oven to 170˚ C.

My Notes

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