Ingredients:
2 cups Basmati Rice
1 cup Mixed Vgetable (cauliflower, potato, carrot, french beans)
150 gms Green Peas
3 Finely Sliced Onion
2 Finely Sliced Green Chillies
Salt to taste
1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
2 tsp Cinnamon(dalchini), Caraway Seeds(zeera)
4 Cloves (laung)
1/2 tsp Black Pepper Powder
4 Tomato
1/2 cup Yogurt (curd)
4 tbsp Vegetable Oil
1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds
3 tbsp Dry Fruits (cashew nuts, raisin)
How to make vegitable biryani :
• Wash the basmati rice well before cooking.Then take rice with 3-3/4 cup water and a little salt added to it and 2 tbsp of dry fruits.Cook it in pressure cooker or in a pan or microwave.
• Cut all the vegetables into small thin pieces and fry each one of it separately in oil. Fry the green peas also.
• Take 1 tblsp 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 saute them for a minute ot till they get pink in color.
• 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 fine 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 vegetable (veg ) biryani hot with raita and pickle
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TOMATO RICE RECIPE:
Tomato rice is a very delicious and simple to prepare recipe. Pureed tomatoes are sauted with spices and then added to rice.
Ingredients:
2 large tomatoes made into a thick puree.
1 cup basmati rice, washed and soaked for ten minutes
1 whole black cardamom (bari ilaichi)
1 tsp red chili powder (lal mirch )
Salt to taste
1 tsp garam masala powder.
1 tblsp ghee
2 cup water
Preparation:
• Heat ghee in a heavy bottom vessel
• Put in the whole black cardamom and then the tomato puree.
• Now add the dry spices, salt and saute.
• Put in the rice and mix well.
• Finally add the water and cook covered till done.
• Seve hot.
TAMARIND RICE RECIPE
Tamarind is a popular rice recipe of the south India. Tamarind or imli as it known otherwise makes this dish tangy.
Ingredients:
2 cups basmathi rice
1/2 cup tamarind juice
salt to taste
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp jaggery powder
1 tsp fenugreek
a pinch of asafoetida
1 tsp mustard
1 tsp channa dhal
6 red chilly
100 gms sesame oil(as needed)
a bunch of curry leaves
1 tsp peanuts
How to make tamarind rice:
• Pressure Cook the rice and spread on a plate. keep aside.
• Heat the non-stick skillet add fenugreek and asafoetida dry fry (without oil) for a minute.
• Grind this into a fine powder. Set aside.
• To the tamarind juice add salt, turmeric powder, jaggery, ground powder of fenugreek and asafoetida.
• Fry mustard, red chillies, channa dhal, peanuts and curry leaves in sesame oil.
• Pour into the tamarind juice mixture.
• Boil tamarind juice till it reaches thick gravy form and until oil comes out with good flavour.
• Add cooked tamarind gravy to the rice.
• Pour in 1 tsp. of oil, if needed. Mix well and serve.
LEMON RICE RECIPE
Ingredients:
2cups boiled Rice
1/3rd cup Lemon Rice
6Tbsp Oil
1/2tsp Black Mustard seeds
Few curry leaves
3-4 green chilies
Salt to taste
1/4th tsp. turmeric powder
1/4th cup peanuts
How to make lemon rice:
• Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, allow to splutter.
• Add turmeric powder and peanuts, fry till brown.
• Now add green chilies, curry leaves, salt and fry for 2 minutes.
• Take it off from the flame and add lemon juice and mix well.
• Now add this to the boiled rice and mix well.Lemon rice is ready to be served.
INDIAN FRIED RICE RECIPE
This is a typical Indian fried ric recipe.Spices and ghee is added to the boiled rice.
Ingredients:
400 gm Rice
100 gm Ghee or butter
65 gms onion
2 gms cinnamon
2 gms Bay leaf
1 gm peppercorns
6 gms Salt
How to make fried rice:
• Heat the ghee in a large saucepan and add the finely sliced onion.
• Fry till golden brown, remove from the pan and keep aside.
• To the hot fat, add the washed and drained rice and the spices.
• Keep stirring and fry for 4-5 minutes till the rice appears glazed. Add salt and boiling water an inch above the rice.
• Boil and simmer till the water is almost absorbed and then put into a very slow oven at 250 degree and leave for 20-25 minutes till the rice is cooked.
• Serve garnished with fried onions. Hard-boiled eggs cut in slices may also be used as a garnish.
CARROT RICE RECIPE
This is a very delicious and nutritious recipe of carrot rice made from groundnuts, carrots and spices like cinnamon and cloves.
Ingredients:
2 cup rice
2 onion
5 carrot
2 tsp fried groundnuts
2 tsp oil
a small piece of cinnamon
1 tsp broken block gram
2 nos cloves
1 tsp mustard
1 tsp bengal gram
a few sprigs curry leaves
Salt as per taste
For Masala:
1 1/2 tsp coriander seeds
3/4 tsp cumin seeds
2 tsp grated coconut
4 nos red chillies
How to make carrot rice:
• Heat the pan, pour the 1 tsp oil. Add red chillies, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and fry till it turns brown.
• Add grated coconuts and remove from the heat. Grind it after it cools down.
• Grind seperately, the fried groundnuts coarsely.
• Cook the rice and let it cool.
• Put the carrots in warm water. Grate it without peeling the skin.
• Heat oil in a pan. Add cloves, cinnamon, mustard, broken block gram and Bengal gram. Fry them.
• Add curry leaves and chopped onions. Once the onion is cooked, add the grated carrots. Fry till the carrots are cooked.
• Add rice and fry in a low flame. Add salt and the ground masala powder. Mix it well with the rice.
• Finally add groundnut powder and remove from the flame. Serve hot
COCONUT RICE RECIPE
This is a South Indian recipe for coconut rice. Fried coconut and cashewnuts are added to boiled rice and garnished with ghee and coriander leaves.
Ingredients:
400 gms biryani rice
120 gms coconut
40 ml ghee
25 gms black gram dhal
25 gms broken pieces of nuts
6 gms dry chillies
2 gms curry leaves
2.5 gms asafoetida powder
20 gms (minced) coriander leaves
Salt to taste
How to make coconut rice:
• Boil rice and keep aside.
• Fry coconut evenly to a golden colour on a slow fire.
• Heat 3 dessertspoon of ghee. Fry the cashewnuts and remove.
• Fry the broken pieces of dry chillies, black gram dhal, and curry leaves well.
• Mix rice, coconut, nuts, 1 teaspoon of ghee and salt.
• Serve hot garnished with coriander leaves.
PALAK RICE RECIPE
Learn how to make palak rice by cooking spinach and rice with onion, tomatoes and garam masala.
Ingredients:
1/2 bunch (cut into small pieces) palak
a pod garlic
a small piece of ginger
1 chopped onion
1 tomato
a few sprigs of curry leaves
1 mashed potato
1 cup basamathi rice
salt to taste
1/2 tblsp garam masala powder (optional)
For Seasoning
1 tblsp mustard
1/2 tblsp urud and channa dal
1/2 tblsp green chillies and red chillies (cut into pieces)
How to make palak rice:
• First wash and cut the palak into small pieces and keep aside.
• Then cook the basmathi rice and set aside.
• Now take a wok, pour some oil and when the oil is hot, add all the seasoning ingredients and fry till done.
• Now add the onions, tomatoes and cut palak and nicely mix and close with a lid.
• Let the whole thing cook very well.
• When it is done, add garam masala powder if you want and saute for a minute.
• Take it wok from fire and add the rice and mix it well.
• Take a wok, pour some oil and put the mashed potatoes and roast it slightly and when done add the curry leaves and put into palak rice and mix well.
• Serve with raita.
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