Ingredients (Serves 3 )
1. Basmati rice – 1.5 cups
2. Carrot – 2 small, diced (Try to use fresh veggies for this biriyani)
Green beans – 1/2 cup, cut into 3/4 inch pieces
Fresh / frozen green peas – 1/4 cup
Bell pepper, green and red – 1/4 cup, diced (optional)
3. Ghee / Oil – 1.5 tbsp
4. Whole spices – Cardamom – 2, whole pepper corns – 4, cinnamon stick – 1/2 inch, cloves – 5
5. Cashews – 2 tbsp
6. Onion – 1/2 medium, thinly sliced and halved
Ginger-garlic paste – 1.5 tsp
7. Mint leaves – 20 – 25 or 1/4 cup
Cilantro – 1/4 cup
Green chilies – 2, halved
Lemon juice – 1/2 tsp
8. Garam masala powder – 1/2 – 3/4 tsp
9. Hot water – 2 cups and thick coconut milk – 1/4 cup ( You can use 2 1/4 cup thin coconut milk instead)
10. Salt To taste
Method
1. Soak basmati rice for 20 minutes in enough water. Drain and set aside.
2. Grind mint leaves, cilantro, green chilies and lemon juice to a coarse mixture.
3. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pressure cooker (I used a 5 litre pressure cooker). Add whole spices and stir until fragrant. Add cashews and stir until golden. Next add sliced onion and ginger-garlic paste. Saute until onion turns transparent and raw smell of ginger-garlic paste is gone. Add ground cilantro-mint-green chilly mixture. Saute for 1 minute. Add garam masala powder, carrot, beans and salt. Saute for a minute. Next add bell peppers and green peas and saute for a minute.
4. Add drained basmati rice. Mix well and stir everything for another minute. Add hot water and coconut milk. Mix well. Adjust salt. Close the pressure-cooker with its lid. Cook at medium heat until steam starts coming out. Place the weight on top and bring down the heat to medium-low. Cook for 5 minutes. Switch off. Open the pressure-cooker when pressure releases or after 10 – 15 minutes. Vegetable biriyani will be perfectly done. Fluff rice with a fork, mix everything carefully and transfer to a serving bowl. Garnish with fried onion, raisins, chopped mint and cilantro etc. Enjoy this delicious vegetable biriyani with raita, pickle and pappad.
Tip
You can also add soy chunks, paneer and other veggies like potato, corn etc. For 1 cup basmati rice, you need 1.5 cup water or thin coconut milk. If you are using 2 cups of rice , use 3 cups of hot water or thin coconut milk. Coconut milk is an added for an extra taste and flavor, you can avoid it if you want.
The rice looks very comforting. Wanted to take the whole place, wish I could.
Wow ! Its super delicious rice !
Hi maya, Yummy flavorful rice and beautiful clicks too.
Hello,
Have you renovated your site? It looks good and so the colourful rice.
Have a great day ahead!
Looks very yummy ….
tempting clicks,looks so irresistible.
Same things with traditional
Hi,
Can you tell me how many gms rice is 1 1/2 cups.
Thks
1.5 cups rice is around 275 gm..
Tried this with frozen vegi’s. Still came out very well. Thank you for sharing.
Planning to make it for a pot-luck.
For 5 cups of rice how much coconut milk and hot water should I use? Would greatly appreciate your reply.
Thanks again.
Thanks for your feedback, Remya..For 5 cups of basmati rice, use 5 cups of hot water + 2.5 cups of medium thick coconut milk
Maya, Tried this last night. I have to admit, it was very easy to prepare. It took me less than an hour to prepare this with Raita & Papadum. Enjoyed with your ‘Sweet and Sour lemon pickle’ 🙂 Taste was good too, though I felt the traditional ones taste better. I would say it is a very easy and tasty biriyani recipe for working day dinners.
Ps: Enjoying the leftover biriyani now while writing this comment in my lunch break 🙂
Thanks a lot for your feedback, Praseeda! 🙂 Great to know that you enjoyed this dish..
When I moved to the US 2 years back I chanced upon this site in one of attempts to make chicken stew. Then on, I’ve been faithfully hooked cause the recipes here work like magic for me!! Thank you so much for making cooking that easy for me!
Thanks a lot for your lovely comment. Hope you continue to enjoy my recipes 🙂
Hello from Australia,
I just tried this and it has come out really well. One of the few times that I follow recipes. I don’t cook rice int he pressure cooker often because I feel that they will clump together. this was a great recipe with very accurate description and timing. Thanks.
Thanks a bunch for your feedback, Tanu. Great to know that you enjoyed this biriyani 🙂
I tried out this recipe and came out perfectly well..thank you very much for the clear cut descriptions.
Perfect !…..just made it and relished….added a few fennel seeds too to give an extra punch.
thankyou Maya
Hi Maya…I tried out this biriyani this Sunday and it turned out to be awesome. Simple to prepare & tasty too… Thanks 🙂
Hello Maya,
I have tried this recipe (added my fav mushrooms too )and came out really well! I have been your follower for years and all your recipes comes out perfect so far 🙂
Thanks heaps 🙂
Lots of love from Newzealand