Easy Vegetable Biryani (One Pot Meals)

This is a quick way to prepare delicious restaurant style briyani in less than 30 minutes. You don’t have to grind any specific masala. All you need is a bowl full of veggies and a cup of good basmati rice. Since I had some frozen ready to use sweet corn I used it today while making briyani. You can substitute it with soya meal maker/paneer/mushroom/frozen green peas.

Incase if you don’t have basmati rice you can use regular Raw Rice too. In that case you need to pressure cook for upto 4 whistles. Rest all the steps given below are same. Water needed to be added based on the variety of rice you use. Perfect lunchbox recipe. Also you can add veggies of your choice. Based on availability in my fridge I have used the below veggies. If you dont have sweetcorn substitute it with green peas.

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Easy Vegetable Biryani (One Pot Meals)

This is a quick way to prepare delicious restaurant style briyani in less than 30 minutes. You don't have to grind any specific masala. All you need is a bowl full of veggies and a cup of good basmati rice. Since I had some frozen ready to use sweet corn I used it today while making briyani. You can

Course

lunch, main course, Main Dish

Cuisine

indian, south indian, tamil, tamilnadu

Prep Time

10 minutes

Cook Time

25 minutes

Passive Time

30 minutes (soaking time for basmati rice)

Servings

number

Ingredients

• 2 cups basmati rice
• 1/2 cup onion Finely Chopped
• 1 cup Mixed Veggies I used carrot, beans, potato, capsicum
• 3 Tomatoes
• 1 Green Chillies
• 1/2 cup sweet corn (optional)
• 1/4 tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 2 tbsps yogurt
• 1/2 tsp Red Chilli Coriander Garam Masala
• 1 tbsp salt
• 1 Bay leaf
• 1 Cinnamon stick
• 4 Cloves
• 5 Elaichi
• 1 tbsp ghee
• 1/2 tbsp Saunf
• 1/4 tbsp Mustard Seeds
• coriander leaves
• mint leaves

Course lunch, main course, Main Dish Cuisine indian, south indian, tamil, tamilnadu Prep Time 10 minutes Cook Time 25 minutes Passive Time 30 minutes (soaking time for basmati rice) Servings number Ingredients 2 cups basmati rice 1/2 cup onion Finely Chopped 1 cup Mixed Veggies I used carrot, beans, potato, capsicum 3 Tomatoes 1 Green Chillies 1/2 cup sweet corn (optional) 1/4 tbsp ginger garlic paste 2 tbsps yogurt 1/2 tsp Red Chilli Coriander Garam Masala 1 tbsp salt 1 Bay leaf 1 Cinnamon stick 4 Cloves 5 Elaichi 1 tbsp ghee 1/2 tbsp Saunf 1/4 tbsp Mustard Seeds coriander leaves mint leaves

Instructions

1. Soak Basmati rice in water according to package instructions. I generally use IndiaGate Classic Basmati rice. It needs to be soaked for atleast 30 minutes
2. In the mean time chop all the veggies lengthwise
3. Heat ghee in a pressure pan
4. Add bay leaf, cinnamon stick, elaichi and cloves
5. Saute for a minute
6. Then add saunf, mustard seeds. Let them splutter
7. Add onions and tomatoes along with ginger garlic paste
8. Saute in medium flame until onions become translucent and the raw smell of ginger garlic goes off
9. Now add chopped vegetables and the dry powders one by one

   
10. Add salt and 1/2 cup of water.
11. Let the veggies be cooked for about 3-4 minutes.
12. Now wash the soaked basmati rice and then add it to the pressure pan.

    
13. Add 2 cups of water, 2tbsp yogurt. Sprinkle fresh coriander & mint leaves. Using a spatula gently mix everything together
14. Close the pressure pan. simmer the flame.Generally basmati rice gets cooked in 12-15 minutes.

    
15. After 15 minutes (approx) turn off the stove and let the rice gets cooled for about 10 minutes. If you mix biryani when its hot there are chances that rice might get mashed up. So wait until it gets cooled down
16. Serve briyani with onion raita or any gravy of your choice.