Recipe: HYDERABADI VEG DUM BIRYANI

Hyderabadi Vegetable Dum Biryani is an amazingly flavorful main course rice dish. The chopped vegetables in a spicy masala is a rich treat to all Veg Lovers. In this recipe, the biryani is cooked partly on steam / dum to retain the aroma and taste.
This staple food of Hyderabadi cuisine is a traditional celebration meal and is most popular of all other versions of biryani recipes.
Let’s see the recipe of delicious Hyderabadi Dum biryani..you should try!

Ingredients:

• Basmati rice – 2 cups
• Garam masala pwd – 1 tbsp
• Onion – 2
• Vegetables chopped ( carrot, peas, beans, potato ) – 1 ½ cup
• Green chilly – 2
• Saffron – few strands
• Milk – 2 tbsp
• Ghee – ¼ cup
• Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp
• Turmeric pwd – a pinch
• Red chilly pwd – 1 tbsp
• Curd – 1 cup
• Cashew – 6
• Raisins – 8
• Mint and coriander leaves – ½ cup
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Wash and soak the basmati rice for 5 mins.
• Drain the water.
• Add 3 1/2 cups of water, sprinkle salt and garam masala.
• Combine well and cook until done.
• Allow to warm, separate the rice grains and keep it aside.
• Chop onions, vegetables, sliced green chillies lengthwise.
• Soak saffron in warm milk for 10 mins.
• Heat a heavy bottomed fry pan and add ghee.
• Add remaining garam masala pwd and sauté for a minute.
• Add onions and fry to light brown.
• Add green chillies, ginger garlic paste and sauté further.
• Now add turmeric pwd, red chilly pwd, salt, chopped vegetables and stir well in medium flame.
• Divide curd into two equal portions.
• Add one portion of curd, combine well.
• Now add a half cup of water and allow the vegetables to cook covered.
• Simmer until the vegetables are done.
• Add half of the freshly chopped coriander, mint leaves and sauté for 30 seconds.
• Dissolve saffron soaked in milk to the second portion of curd.
• Sprinkle half of this over the cooked vegetables.
• Spread half of the cooked rice and sprinkle again the remaining mint, coriander leaves and saffron curd.
• Now top it with remaining rice.
• Spread fried onion, cashew, raisins evenly on top of rice.
• Seal it with a moist white cloth on top tightly.
• Keep it in dum for 10 to 15 mins.
• Remove from flame and fluff the rice gently.

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