Ingredients
Basmatic rice - 1 cup
onions - 2 big ones
potatoes - 2 big ones
carrots - 2 big ones
beans - 8 to 10
pudina
(you can add other vegetables like cauliflower, beet root etc.)
curd
green chillies - 3 to 4
salt to taste
turmeric
garam masala
cinnamon,clove, bay leaf, mace,
ginger-garlic paste
PROCEDURE :
Fried onions
1. Slice the onions into long pieces and shallow fry them in oil until they turn brown in color. Drain the oil and keep the onions aside.
Curry :
1. Heat oil in a pan. Add cinnamon, clove, mace, bay leaf, ginger-garlic paste.
2. Slice the potatoes, carrots into cubes. Make a cut to the green chillies in the middle (vertically)
3. Add the green chillies, potatoes, carrots,salt and let them cook for 2 mins
4. Add sliced beans and let it cook for 5 mins
5. Add pudina leaves, salt (if required), garam masala, turmeric (pinch) and curd (4 tsp).
6. Let it cook until the curd mixes with the vegetables and solidifies. Keep the mixture aside
Rice :
1.Soak the basmati rice at for half an hour
2. Add 2 to 3 cups of water to a pan and once the water boils, add cinnamom, bay leaf, mace, clove and some pudina leaves
3. Now add the soaked rice and cook on low flame. Cook until the rice is almost cooked
Final mix :
1. Take a heavy bottom vessel or a pan and add the curry in it.
2. Now drain water from the almost cooked rice and place the rice on the curry.
3. Now add the onions and close the lid. Let it cook on low flame for 5 mins until the rice is completely cooked.
4. Mix the curry with the rice and delicious vegetable dum biryani is ready to eat :)
