Vegetable Biryani
- Recipe by: Your Food Fantasy
- Your Food Fantasy comes from the very talented Meenu, a food enthusiast and recipe creator from India! Meenu has a passion for making our favourite take away and restaurant dishes into healthy adaptations we can cook at home with healthy, wholesome ingredients.
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Who doesn't love Indian food?
This is a fantastic take on a vegetable biryani packed full of warming spices and vegetables, this is the perfect Friday night 'fake-away' - enjoy!
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1.
Place saffron in warm water and set aside
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2.
In a large mixing bowl combine all of the marination ingredients and mix together well and set aside for around 40 minutes
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3.
Heat ghee in a heavy bottomed pan, once hot add the cashews and raisins
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4.
Once golden remove and place on tissue, keeping the ghee in the pan
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5.
In the remaining ghee, add the asafoetida, cumin seeds, cinnamon stick, black Cardamom and peppercorns and saute for 1-2 minutes
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6.
Then add chopped onions and fry until translucent
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7.
Add biryani masala, salt and chopped fresh tomatoes with the green chillies and cook until oil begins to separate
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8.
Next add the marinated vegetables from earlier and let them cook for around 10 minutes
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9.
In another pan, add 4 cups of water and bring to the boil then add cloves, black cardamom, green cardamom, peppercorns and bay leaves with salt, oil and lemon juice and stir
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10.
Add soaked basmati rice and cook until 90% cooked (8-10 minutes) before draining and keeping aside
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11.
Switch off the flame to the vegetables that have been cooking and remove half of the cooked vegetables and place in a bowl
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12.
Layer half of the cooked rice in the remaining pan of cooked vegetables and add chopped fresh coriander, fresh mint, fried onions, cashews, raisins and half of the saffron water - do not stir
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13.
Next add another layer by adding the rest of the cooked rice (from the bowl) and repeat the above step
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14.
Add kewra water and a touch of orange food colouring (if using)
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15.
Cover the pan and let it cook for 20 minutes on a low flame
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16.
Once cooked stir through and serve with raita and chapati
- For the marination :
- 1.5 cup Cauliflower florets
- 1/2 cup Green beans
- 1/2 cup Green peas
- 1/4 cup Diced carrots
- 11/2 cup Diced potato
- 200g Paneer cheese
- 3 tbsp Natural yoghurt
- 1 tbsp Ginger garlic paste
- 2 tbsp Biryani masala
- 1 tsp Ground tumeric powder
- 1/2 tsp Chilli powder
- 1 tsp Coriander powder
- 1 tsp Salt
- For the rice :
- 2 cup Long grain basmati rice
- 2-3 Bay leaves
- 2-3 q Cloves
- 1 inch Ceylon cinnamon stick
- 2-3 Green cardamoms
- 2-3 Black cardamoms
- 4-5 Pink peppercorns
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 1 tbsp Lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- Other ingredients :
- 4 tbsp Ghee
- 1 Diced onion
- 1 tbsp Ginger, julienned
- 3 Fresh tomatoes
- 4 Green chillies
- tbsp Biryani masala
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 tbsp Cumin seeds
- 2 Bay leaves
- 1/2 inch Ceylon cinnamon stick
- 2-3 Pink peppercorns
- 4 tbsp Fried onion
- 15 Whole cashew nuts
- 3 tbsp Raisins
- 3 tbsp Fresh coriander
- 2 tbsp Fresh mint
- Few strands Saffron
- 1 tbsp Kewda
- 1/3 tsp Asafoetida
- 2 Cloves
- 2 Black cardamoms
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