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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Kabuli (Vegetable Biryani)

Ingredients:
4 slices of bread
1 cup of curd
2 potatoes
1/2 cup beans finely chopped beans
1/2 cup carrot finely chopped
1/2 cup boiled or frozen green peas
2 cups of rice
some caulifower
1 tomato sliced
1/2 cucumber sliced
2 tsp Dhaniya Powder
1 tsp cumin seeds
1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
1 tsp Red Chilly Powder
Salt to taste

Method:
Cut potatoes into slices and fry it.
Cut bread into small pieces and fry it.
Boil carrot,beans,cauliflower,peas.
Take curd in pan. Add one glass of water to it. Add dhaniya powder,turmeric powder, red chilly powder and whisk it well.Add a little extra salt so that it accounts for the rice too.
Boil rice in a seperate container.
Take some oil in a pan.
Add cumin seeds. When it starts crackling. Add the curd mix to it. Add all the boiled vegetables and cook for 5-6 mins.
Once the curd gravy starts thickening. Add fried potatoes and braed to it. Cook for 2 mins till all the water dries.
Take a pressure cooker. Place a layer of rice in it approximately 1/2 inch thick.
Add some milk to it to moist it.
Spread sliced tomatoes over it.
Place one more layer of rice above it.
Add some milk to moist it.
Spread the vegetables with curd gravy over it ,(approximately 1 inch thick).
Spread one more layer of rice(1/2 inch ). Moist with milk.
Spread cucumber sliced over it.
Add one more layer of rice moistened with milk.
Spread the vegetable mix once more.
Cover with a thinn layer of rice.
Close the cooker lid and keep it on flame for 2-3 mins.
Kabuli is ready to eat.

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