Ingredients:
Rice
---------------------------------------------- 1 cup
Onion
------------------------------------------- 2 medium sized (Chopped)
Tomato
(Bangalore) -------------------------- 1 (Chop into small pieces)
Green
chilli ------------------------------------- 1 (split into two halves)
Curd
---------------------------------------------- 2 tbsp
Ginger
------------------------------------------- one inch piece
Garlic
-------------------------------------------- 5 numbers
Mint leaves ------------------------------------
a handful
Clove
-------------------------------------------- 4 -5 numbers
Cinnamon ------------------------------------- 2
numbers
Cardamom ----------------------------------- 5-6
numbers
Cashew nuts --------------------------------- 10
numbers
Turmeric powder ------------------------- ¼
teaspoon
Chilli powder ----------------------------- ½ teaspoon
(Add according to the taste, don’t add too much as we are using green chilli
too)
Oil ----------------------------------------------
2 tablespoon (if you are not using ghee, use 4 tbsp of
oil)
Ghee ------------------------------------------
2 tablespoon
Water -----------------------------------------
2 cups
Salt
-------------------------------------------- to taste
Preparation:
1. Wash and soak the basmati rice for 15-20
minutes, drain and keep
2. Grind mint leaves, ginger, garlic, half
of clove, half of cinnamon and half of cardamom into a paste and keep it aside
3. Pour oil and ghee ( or oil alone) into a
pressure cooker
4. Add the remaining clove, cinnamon,
cardamom and stir for a minute
5. Add chopped onion, green chilli, a
little salt and fry till soft
6. Add cashew nut and stir
7. Add the paste, which we prepared in step
2 and stir till leaves its raw smell and become dark brown colour
8. Add tomato and stir till it become soft and
mash it well with the other ingredients
9. Add turmeric powder and chilli powder
and stir well
10.Add basmati
rice and stir well
11.
Add water and curd and allow it to boil
12.
Taste it and adjust salt as per taste
13. Close the lid of the pressure cooker and
allow for 2 whistles in high flame and reduce the flame to low and 1 whistle in
low flame
14. After 20 - 25 minutes, open the lid of
the cooker and serve the dish hot with onion raitha
This biriyani is a superhero in my family, everyone including my little one likes it very much. So I am sure, your kiddo will also like this biriyani... Now,
you have the recipe to prepare yummy biriyani,
prepare for your loved ones….. Don’t forget to tell me your valuable comments….
If you have any doubt also, you can write to me without any hesitation…. J Thank
you Tajel Bharat, my neighbour and friend, for the recipe
you taught me around a year back… J
