Vegetable Biryani Traditional Indian Food - By VahChef @ VahRehVah.com

Hello , welcome back to another session with your was chef at wava dot com .

Today , I'm going to show you vegetable biryani .

A lot of you have been asking , OK .

You showed vegetable pola in the rice cooker , showed chicken biryani lamb biryani .

How about vegetable biryani ?

So today I'm going to make that to prepare vegetable biryani .

We have to understand one thing very important .

You have to make sure your vegetables are done , right ?

Because that's what gives a very nice flavor to your dish .

So to do this , add some oil in a hot pan , add some whole garam masala .

I've got cinnamon cardamom cloves , everything .

So once you saute your whole garam , masala add shara OK ?

Add some ginger garlic paste , vegetables for vegetable biryani , do not cut vegetables into small pieces , make them a little bit bigger pieces .

So that when you cook it , you want these nice vegetable pieces to come while you eat the biryani .

So I've got some carrots , some cauliflower and I've got potatoes .

Look at the way I cut these potatoes into nice sticks .

OK ?

So when you actually cook them , you can actually see these vegetables are not ma up .

I've got some honey also , but I'm going to add this a little later when your vegetables are frying in this ginger garlic paste , add salt in this preparation .

We are going to cook the vegetables till they're 70% done .

And then you add rice on top over it .

Now , if you see this potato , it is slightly brown .

You know , you want your vegetables to be nicely sorted .

This starting of vegetables give very nice flavor .

I'm going to add fried onion on top of it .

Later , I want all the vegetables to have slight brown coating on the vegetables .

And then I'm going to let them steam and cook .

I'm going to add half of the mint and the coriander .

See this mint gives very nice biryani flavor to the dish .

And then I'm gonna add some green chili .

I've cut them really big pieces .

You want these green chili to be big pieces because you don't want them to disappear into this preparation every time I add chili powder , turmeric and Kiana powder , cumin powder and I make my own biryani masala .

But today I'm going to use the store bought biryani masala so that you know a lot of you can use this way , just use just one packet of biryani masala powder .

Ok ?

So now if you notice all my spices are coated very well on these vegetables .

Ok ?

So that is what you want .

You want your vegetables to be flavorful in your biryani , you don't want them just like boiled vegetables , which don't taste at all .

So to this , what I'm going to do , I'm going to add half of the yogurt .

I have not too much , I'm going to add very little yogurt .

So at this point of time , I'm going to add some of the honey .

I have to be very effective .

Always use a bigger pan like the non stick pan , like what I'm using .

And that way the water operates faster and you get your vegetables very nicely coated with the masala .

Whether you take a piece of potato or you take a piece of cauliflower or carrot or even honey .

See all of them have a very nice coating of these masala and I'm going to keep it aside .

I have soaked rice for almost one hour .

Now , usually if you soak it for 30 minutes , it's good .

And also remember , you know , you should buy basmati rice , which by itself smells really nice .

So I've got here some water boiling .

I'm going to add some oil to it .

If you want , you can add some garam masala .

I'm going to add Shai jira and some cloves and caramel .

So it's up to you .

If you want to add , you can add , I'm going to add to this preparation , bring it to boil .

But remember one thing since I have served this rice so long , this rice is going to just cook in less than 34 minutes , vegetables are 70% done .

So I'm going to cook this rice also till it is 70% done .

Rice is almost getting done .

So we are going to drain this rice check this , this is uh you know , almost 70% done .

You know , I take some of these half of these vegetables , OK ?

I'm going to divide into two power portions and I'm going to spread the first portion on the bottom of this vessel .

OK ?

And then to this bottom portion , I'm going to add some more yogurt .

OK ?

And then I'm going to add some nuts , some cashew , some almonds .

And then I'm going to heat it up a little bit and check the seasoning .

If you want to add a little bit more salt , you can add OK ?

And then Sprinkle some of the fried onion .

OK ?

Make sure the flame is very sim and then put half of this rice , OK ?

Excellent .

And then on the top , I'm going to use a little bit of these vegetables a little bit left over vegetables .

OK ?

Look at this .

All these vegetables have a very nice flavor and they're going to remain so flavorful .

You add some of this fried onion .

See this fried onion gives very nice sweet flavor to your rice .

Biryani .

OK ?

And then Sprinkle the rest of the rice .

Now , on top of this , we're going to put some more chopped Korea and the mint leaf that is left at the last , what we'll do is we're going to Sprinkle a little bit of saffron color while I was a kid .

You know , my mom always , whenever she made a vegetable biryani , you know , she used to add some fried bread , you know , from the double CAA , I kept some of this bread .

So what I'm going to do , I'm going to put it on top of this .

OK ?

So after you're done adding the color the bread , everything just cover this with a lid .

OK ?

Now , I know a lot of you are getting this chicken biryani lamb biryani without getting burned .

But some of you are still unable to figure out .

And you are thinking maybe , you know , there is something wrong with the recipe .

Trust me , professional chefs will never have the bottom bone , you know , because they're very careful .

But a lot of you , if you're just starting off , you know , it is a problem that you will all face .

So I found one more method how we can avoid that completely .

So to avoid this burning , we have something called as hot Bain Marie .

That is what we do to keep food hot .

And a lot of times when we make desserts in bakery , we use a Bain Marie so that it doesn't burn at the bottom .

Bain Marie is nothing but a bigger vessel in which there is some water .

What you do , you take this Biryani container and put it on top of that when you put water at the bottom in a bigger vessel and then you put another vessel on top .

This is your worst of guarantee that you will not bomb .

I have been cooking this vegetable biryani in the bain marry for the last 30 minutes .

Ok ?

Now the biryani is almost done .

So let's understand this bain Mary one more time .

The top vessel is sitting in the bottom vessel with little water in the bottom vessel and with the heat from the water like a steam , it is cooking .

You can do .

Another thing is you can put this whole vessel in the oven and it will make a perfect biryani .

Look at this .

Look at this , look at this .

Wow , look at this green chili .

Also it's full of uh nice flavors .

Hm .

Now you know , check this biryani .

Oh wow .

Look at this bottom of this vessel .

And when you put on a double vein mary , you know , the bottom will shine as when you started the cooking process .

So let's taste this biryani .

Wow .

Mhm .

See , and another thing I cook this bread on top of it and still it is crunchy .

It is um you know , kids love especially when you add uh you know , fried bread to biryani and that gives a very nice sweet flavor too .

Even if you look at these panels , they look as if they have been roasted .

You know , that's beautiful .

They look hot .

So dear friends I hope you have enjoyed learning to cook this awesome vegetable biryani .

But remember , vegetable biryani needs more attention than both non vegetarian biryani .

Because if you want to retain nice flavors and make each piece of vegetable very tasty .

You know , just follow the procedures I have shown and do not forget that Wawa is all about inspiring others to cook .

So please post your cooking tips and recipes .

So .