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Veg Dum Biryani

Aug-21-2016
Reetu Gupta
60 minutes
Prep Time
45 minutes
Cook Time
6 People
Serves
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ABOUT Veg Dum Biryani RECIPE

i am very fond of eating dum biryani, so I got to learn this recipie in my cooking class and it turned out very well.

Recipe Tags

  • Veg
  • Medium
  • Festive
  • Awadhi
  • Simmering
  • Boiling
  • Frying
  • Main Dish

Ingredients Serving: 6

  1. 2 cup basmati rice
  2. 2 large onion sliced (Deep fry them till golden brown and keep them aside for layering - Beresta)
  3. 1 tsp shahi jeera..
  4. 1 stick dalchini..
  5. javitry..
  6. jaiphal.
  7. 3 tsp ginger garlic paste
  8. Vegetables - Peas, Potatoes, Cauliflower, French beans and carrot (Chopped in small pieces and blanched till al dente)
  9. Salt and Black pepper powder as per taste
  10. 1/2 cup dahi
  11. few drops of rose water and kewra water..
  12. Amul butter

Instructions

  1. Soak 2 cups of Basmati rice in water for 2 hours then drain.
  2. Take 8 cups water in a pan for rice, put 2 tsp salt, shahi jeera, 4 laung, 1 dalchini, 1 javitri, 1 tejpatta and when the water starts boiling put rice and cook till it is half done. (Ek kanki ka rakhna as dum mein poora pakaya jata hai).
  3. Drain the half cooked rice, spread the rice on a slab and sprinkle some ghee over it. Preserve one cup of the water in which the rice was boiled in.
  4. Boil some water, add diced potatoes, gobhi pieces, diced carrot, french beans and shelled peas. Blanch them (Half cook because half will be cooked with curd).
  5. After blanching, wash the vegetables in cold water and remove all the water.
  6. Add oil in a wok, add shahi jeera, dalchini, javitri, grate some jaiphal and add 1 tsp ginger garlic paste.
  7. Add in all the vegetables followed by salt and kali mirch powder. Mix well.
  8. Add half cup curd (with no lumps). Mix it fast else it will curdle. Cover and cook. Fry properly so no curd is left in the kadhai.
  9. For layering: Take a heavy bottom pan put 1 layer of fried onions then the layer of rice, vegetable layer followed by chopped mint leaves.
  10. Again add in the onions layer, then the rice, the vegetables, mint leaves and rice.
  11. Take kewara water half a tsp, mix in a few strands of kesar. Drop this water over the rice followed by a few drops of orange colour also.
  12. Pour masala water preserved earlier from the sides.
  13. For the Dum: Seal the pan by taking atta dough and sealing all over. Place it on a tawa and cook on a low flame.
  14. Let it be for 45 minutes. Serve hot.

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Shiva Pande
Nov-16-2016
Shiva Pande   Nov-16-2016

Looks really yummy

Shweta Sood
Aug-22-2016
Shweta Sood   Aug-22-2016

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