How To Make Vegetable Biryani _ Easy Homemade Biryani Recipe _ The Bombay Chef - Varun Inamdar

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Welcome to Rajhi food .

This is the Bombay chef Verna Nadar .

And today I bring to your kitchen , a beautiful aromatic vegetable biryani .

Well , Biryani for the uninitiated is a Persian delicacy which has got to India by the Mughals .

Let's first start making the rice for the Biryani some coil like a tablespoon of soap and I'm adding in some fresh garam masala .

Once the garam masala lightly start splattering , I'm going to add in some dried onions , just stir it lightly and immediately .

What goes in next is a pot of boiling water .

So that goes in there .

The next thing that goes in is some salt and a tablespoon of yogurt .

Give this a light stir and we shall wait for this to start boiling .

Once it starts boiling goes in the soaked rice .

So I have some beautiful long grain rice here , I've soaked it for some 20 minutes .

I'm adding in rice .

I'm just lightly stirring this , making sure the rice grains do not break and there then we wait for the rice to get half done .

Let me quickly check the rice .

So here it is .

So this is what I mean by partially cooked or half done rice where the grain is still a little raw while it is still a little cooked .

So here we go .

So now that the rice is partially cooked , I'm moving this and straining this into a colander .

Now that the rice is parboiled , drained and ready .

I'm just adding in a little bit of yellow color .

You can also use in saffron .

Well , this is an optional step but it just makes it look a little more biryani like .

So just adding in a little saffron color .

Now that the biryani rice is ready , let's start making the vegetable preparation .

So the first thing is a little bit of oil .

Next that goes in is some whole garam , masala , whole spices .

So I have some clubs , peppercorn , cinnamon cardamon and black cardamon .

So that goes in here as soon as that starts emitting a beautiful aroma goes in the fried onions , lightly softening them , make sure it does not burn .

So once these onions get a nice and beautiful golden brown color , I'm gonna add in some chopped tomatoes .

Now I'm adding in the spices .

First that goes in is some turmeric red chili powder and salt , giving the light stuff .

What goes in next is some cauliflower .

I have French beans , some carrots and a little bit of yogurt .

I'm giving it a light stuff , adding in some water to make sure the vegetables start cooking lightly and do not forget to add in some tender green peas .

Now , the vegetables are done .

I'm placing them in a bigger pan and this is the pan in which we are now assembling our beautiful vegetable biryani just setting it a little and I'm placing some chunks of cottage cheese on top of the vegetables .

Now , what goes on top is this rice that has been sitting here gloriously right on top of the vegetables there .

Make sure the grains of rice do not break , just moving it lightly .

Make sure you do not press this because we do not want the rice grains to break at all .

And now I am placing this whole thing on them for 5 to 10 minutes .

So just on a very low flame , you put a lid on top of this biryani and then what would be ready is your beautiful vegetable biryani ?

Now that the 10 minutes are done just switching the flame off and let's check how beautiful our biryani looks .

So now that the Biryani is ready , I'm just transferring this into a serving bowl .

So there I have , I'm garnishing this with some fried onion , some fresh pomegranate seeds and some fresh mint leaves .

Now that a beautiful vegetable biryani is ready , do try it at home .

Let us know how you like it .

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