Simplified Veg Biryani

Hello Friends,

Making biryani is a tedious task. But if you are interested in Veg Biryani, then I have this simplified version of the original Veg Biryani which is relatively easy to make. So, here it is:

Ingredients:

Basmati Rice (uncooked) – 1 Cup

Chopped Carrots, Capsicum, and French Beans – 1 Cup

Medium size Potato (cut into Cubes) – 1

Medium size Onion (Sliced) – 1

Green Chilli (sliced) – 1

Cloves – 3

Cardamom (crushed) – 1

Cinnamon stick – 1

Dried Bay leaf (Bagara leaf) – 1

Oil – 2 tblspn

Ghee – 1 tblspn

Garam Masala (powdered) – ¼ tspn

Tomato (chopped) – 1

Red Chilli Powder – ½ tspn

Water – 1 ½ Cup

Ginger-Garlic paste – ½ tspn

Salt as per taste

Fresh Mint leaves – Handful

Fresh Coriander – For Garnishing

Procedure:

1. Heat oil and ghee in a vessel or pressure cooker
2. Add cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, bay leaf and toss for few seconds
3. Add onion and mint leaves. Toss for a minute and add ginger-garlic paste. Cook for 30 seconds
4. Add all the vegetables and green chilli and cook for 2 minutes
5. Add red chilli powder, salt and garam masala.
6. Add rice and water and let it cook as you cook ordinary rice. Ensure that the rice grains do not break or get overcooked.
7. If cooked in pressure cooker, then cook until 2 whistles and wait for 10 minutes before opening the cooker lid.
8. Garnish with finely chopped coriander

Serve hot for best taste….!!

Please comment on the recipe if you like it.

Veg Manchurian Wet

Hello Friends,
Chinese cuisine, especially noodles, fried rice and manchurian have a very good place in the Indian food scene. Not only India is flourished with Chinese restaurants, but is also packed with many road-side 'chinees' stalls. 
I am turning to Chinese cuisine today and making wet veg manchurian at home. Manchurian can be a starter course or can be had in combination with fried rice.

Wet Veg Manchurian

Ingredients:

Chopped Carrots, Cabbage and Capsicum: All together in 1 cup

Ginger-Garlic paste -- ½ tspn

Green Chillies -- 1

Green Chillies paste -- 1 tspn

Finley chopped Garlic -- 2

Pepper powder -- 1tspn

Oil for deep frying

Salt as per taste

Sugar -- ½ tspn

Soy Sauce -- ½ tspn

Vinegar -- ½ tspn

Red Chilli powder -- ½ tspn

Corn Flour -- 2 ½ tblspn

Maida Flour -- 1 tblspn

Water -- 2 cups

Procedure :

1. Add 2 tblspn corn flour, maida, ginger-garlic paste, green chillies paste, salt, ½ tspn pepper powder to chopped vegetables.
   Add some water and mix them well and make small balls out of it.
2. Heat oil in a pan and add these Manchurian balls. Cook on medium flame until they become golden brown.
3. Take another pan and heat 1 tblspn of oil.
4. Add chopped chillies, chopped garlic to oil and cook for few seconds.
5. Add vinegar, soy sauce, salt and sugar.
6. Mix ½ tblspn of corn flour in ½ cup of water and add to the above mixture. Immediately add another 1 ½ cups of water and cook for 3 to 5 minutes while stirring continuously.
7. Add Manchurian balls to the above gravy and Switch off the stove.
8. Garnish with finely chopped coriander or spring onion or both.

Serve hot……!!!

Please comment on the recipe if you like it.