VEGETABLE DUM BIRYANI

INGREDIENTS:

Basmati Rice  1 1/2 Cup
Onions  2
Beans  12
Cabbage 1/2 Cup(Chopped)
Green Peas  1/2 Cup
Curd  1/2 Cup
Milk  1/2 Cup
Ginger Garlic paste 2 tsp
Green chilli   2
Red Chilli  4
Cashew  3 Table spoon
Cinnamon  1 Inch piece
Elachi  2
Cloves  4
Garam masala powder  1 tsp
Turmeric powder

Salt  As Required
Bay leaves  2
Saffron 1 pinch
Chopped corriander leaves  2 Table spoon
Ghee  1 Table Spoon
Oil  4 Table spoon

Method:

Soak rice in water for one hour.  In warm one spoon milk soak saffron.  After one hour cook the rick with one cup water , half cup milk, one spoon ghee, smashed saffron and salt.

Cut the onion into lengthy pieces.  Fry it with oil till it becomes brown and keep aside.  

Take kadai pour 2 table spoon oil.  Add bay leaves, green chillies, cloves, elachi and cinnamon  fry it for a minute. Put ginger garlic paste and fry them for few minutes.   Add carrot beans pieces, peas and chopped cabbage.  Fry them for few minutes.  Add curd,  garam masala powder, turmeric powder, salt and chilli powder.  Keep it in low flame.  Meanwhile in a mixie  put cashew and red chillies and make it into powder.  Add this powder in vegetable stuff.  Fry it for few minutes and remove it from stove. 

Take a broad vessel spread a layer of rice then fried onions, then mixed vegetable masala, then corriandor leaves.   Again repeat the layers.   Close the vessel. Then you keep this vessel in cooker and steam it for 15 to 20 minutes. You can serve this with onion raita. 

Rice flour Roti

Ingredients:

Rice flour 2 Cups
Finely cut onions 2 Tbl Spn
Fresh coconut 2 Tbl Spn
Crushed ground nuts and roasted gram 1 Tbl Spn
Chopped green chillies 2 Tsp
Salt and Oil As required

Method:

In a broad vessel put rice flour, salt, finely cut onions, fresh coconut, crushed nuts and 1 tbl spn oil and mix well. In a vessel boil one cup of water. Mix the flour with that hot water. When it becomes cool, knead the flour with your hands. If necessary sprinkle little water and make it into stiff dough. Make it into medium size balls. Take a plythene paper. Greese it with oil . Keep one ball and make roti with your fingers. Keep a roti pan on stove. Put this roti on the pan. Put oil on the top and sides. Close it with a lid. Keep it in medium flame. After some time take the lid and turn the roti and add little water and fry it. Like that prepare all roties. Eat this when it is hot. Garlic chutney goes well with this roti.