Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, pongal kootu veg biryani. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
As pongal festival is nearing i wanted to post a traditional recipe which we make both for Pongal festival and Thiruvadirai. A little bit of all these veggies make a huge quantity. Pongal festival itself is a harvest festival, to show gratitude to the Mother Nature to help us harvest nicely with enough monsoon.
Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pongal kootu veg biryani using 28 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani:
- Make ready 1 tbsp tamarind pulp
- Prepare 1/2 cup toor dal
- Prepare 1 chopped potato
- Take 1 chopped carrot
- Get 1/2 cup chopped broad beans
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped French beans
- Prepare 1 chopped sweet potato
- Make ready 100 grams pumpkin chopped
- Make ready 1 chopped ash gourd
- Get 2-4 dry red chillies
- Take 1 tbsp chana dal
- Prepare 2 tbsp coriander seeds
- Prepare 1/2 cup grated coconut
- Prepare 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
- Take 2 tbsp oil
- Get 1 tsp mustard seeds
- Take 1 pinch asafoetida
- Prepare 2 cups Basmati Rice
- Take 5-6 leaves curry
- Prepare 1 stick cinnamon
- Take 2 dried bay leaves
- Get 1 tsp pepper corns
- Prepare 3-4 cloves
- Take 1 star anise
- Prepare 1 maze flower
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Make ready 1/2 cup milk
- Get 3-4 string strands of saffron
One of the best recipes given by RK sir ! You can find the link here. This kootu is very flavourful with all our naatu kaigaris (country vegetables). Please refer the notes for the vegetables choice.
Instructions to make Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani:
- Tie cinnamon stick, dried bay leaves, pepper corns, cloves, star anise, maze flower in a small piece of muslin cloth and keep aside
- Wash rice and cook them with double water, muslin potli of spices and salt to taste
- In a pressure cooker, cook washed toor dal and mash it well
- In another pan put all the chopped veggies and cover them with little water and cook covered till soft
- In a pan heat 1 tsp of oil and add coriander seeds, chana dal, fenugreek seeds and 2 dry chillies and fry these till the dal becomes little golden in colour
- The add grated coconut and roast it till the coconut is golden in colour, cool it a bit and grind to a fine paste with help of little water
- In the vegetables pot add tamrind pulp, cooked toor dal, ground masala paste and salt to taste and mix well then cook for 4-5 minutes
- Cook till most of the water is absorbed as we don’t want it to be much liquid for biryani.
- Heat remaining oil and add red chillies, asafetida, mustard seeds and curry leaves and let them crackle. Now put this tempering in prepared Kootu
- And finally layer the biryani in a microwave safe pot, one layer rice then one layer of Kootu and repeat it till your preference
- Mix saffron with warm milk and pour it over the final layer of rice, close the lid of the pot and microwave for a minute
This is an exotic way to include all the veggies in our diet. This is a flavorful, easy and quick Pressure Cooker Vegetable Biryani that gets done in minutes. Vegetable Biriyani with Onion Raitha makes a perfect lunch. Mixed vegetable kootu is very similar to Avial and pongal kootu. Its a South Indian style side dish for rice.
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