VEGETABLE BIRYANI RECIPE

Ingredients:
 2 cups Basmati Rice.
 1 cup Mixed Vegetables (cauliflower, potato, carrot, French beans paneer, any veg you like).
 150 grams Green Peas.
 3 Finely Sliced Onion
 2 Finely Sliced Green Chillies
 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder.
 2 tsp Cinnamon, Caraway Seeds(zeera).
 4 Cloves.
 1/2 tsp Black Pepper Powder
 4 Tomato Choped
 1/2 cup Yogurt
 4 tbsp Vegetable Oil
 1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds
 3 tbsp Dry Fruits (cashew nuts, raisin)
 Salt to taste

The Preparation
 Take basmati rice well cleaned with 3-3/4 cup water and a little salt added to it and some 2
tbsp. of dry fruits. Cook it in pressure cooker or in a pan or microwave.
 Cut all the vegetables into small pieces and deep fry all the vegies .make sure that the do not
stick to each other
 Fry the green peas also.
 Take 1 tbsp. oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, green chilli, cinnamon and caraway seeds
powder, cloves, black pepper powder and stir for about half minute. Then add onions and sauté
them for a minute or till they are pink in colour.
 Add salt and red chilli powder and stir.
 Add fine chopped tomatoes and fry till they are properly cooked.
 Take the yogurt and make it fine by putting in a blender for just 2 rotations. Add this yogurt
and stir well. Heat it for about 10 seconds.
 Add all the fried vegetables.
 Add the cooked rice and mix well with very light hands so that the rice grain doesn't break.
Cook for about 3 minutes.
 Take this vegetable biryani out in a rice serving dish.
 Garnish with dry fruits and green coriander leaves.
 Serve the biryani hot with raita/curd and pickle.