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CHICKEN BRIYANI Ingredients 3 cup rice Basmati rice 500 g g boneless chicken 3-4 onion 10 -15 baby small onion 3-4 tomatos 2-3 green chilli whole 1/4 cup curds 1/2 t zeera 1 t saunf 2 small stick cinnamon 5-8 pepper corns 1/2 t chilli powder 1/2 t coriander powder 2 bay leaves 1/4 t khuskhas 3-5 cloves 1 small lime size ginger piece 8-10 garlic cloves 1 t saffron 2 t milk 1 cup fresh coconut 3-4 green cardamom 1 small savithri (OPTIONAL) 5-8 cashewnute and 10 15 raisins 1/2 t turmeric powder 8 T fat (Dalda and ghee) few curry leaves 1 cup coriander leaves and mint leaves(pudina) salt to taste METHOD Clean ,wash and soak the rice. soak saffron in 1 t -2t milk Chop the baby onion small piece,cut the big onions lengthwise . Cut slightly lengthwise the green chill whole Grind 2 green cardamom powdered Chop the ginger and garlic very small pieces Add water grind freash coconut in a grinder ,Take coconut milk( juice) in the one cup fresh coconut( 2-3 cup milk) Cleane the budina , curry lea...

Vegetable Biryani Ingredients 1 cup rice 2 potatoes 100 g peas 100 g beans 100 g carrots 100g cauliflower 200 g onion(4-5 small size) 100 g tomatoes (3-4) 2T curd 1 t jeera 1 black cardamom 2-3 bay leaves 5-8 pepper corns 3 cloves 1 piece cinnamon stick 1 small piece ginger 5-8 garlic cloves 1/4 t turmeric powder 1 t red chilli powder 3-4 pinch of saffron 1T milk fat 5-6 T salt to taste METHOD Clean,wash and soak the rice.soak saffron in 1T milk. Grate onion,blanched and chopped tomatoes.shell peas,string and dice beans,peel and dice carrots,cut the cauliflower flower only..chop the potatoes small cubes. Roast the spices( jeera,black cardamom,1 bay leaves,pepper corns,cloves,cinnamon, along with ginger and garlic) Take 2T fat in heavy bottomed pan and fry onions till golden brown.add ground spice paste and fry a little more time. Add salt,redchilli powder,and turmeric powder, and blanched chopped tomatoes and beaten curd and fry for some time till the masala fryed well. Add the chopped...

BIRYANI Ingredients 200 g Rice (1 cup) Water double the amount for rice by volume 250 g Boneless Mutton or Boneless chicken 4 onions 2-3 tomatoes 2-3 t curds 1 t Jeera(cumin seeds) 1 piece cinnamon 8 - 10 pepper corns 1/2 t khuskhas 3-4 Bay leaves 4 cloves 1Black cardamom 1 piece ginger 4-5 pinch of saffron 2 t milk 1/2 t turmeric powder 1 t red chilli powder 6 - 8 T fat 2 1/2 t salt or to taste METHOD Clean ,wash and soak the rice. Soak saffron in 1T milk. Grate 2 onion.cut 2 onion lenghwise or rings. Blanched and chopped tomatoes. Roast dry spices(jeera,cinnamon,pepper corns,khuskhas,cloves,black cardamom and 1 bay leaves) on a tawa and grind along with ginger and garlic. Take 4 T fat in a heavy bottomed pan and fry the grate onion till golden brown.add ground spice paste and bay leaves and fry a little more. Add salt,turmeric powder,red chilli powder,blanched and chopped tomatoes and beaten curd and fry for some more time. Add washed and cleaned mutton (or chicken) and fry till fat ...

BIRYANI ,although a rice dish.is from Northern India.and spread all over India.It finds in every festival and marriage party and entertaining guests at home.This biryani is very well known Indian dish.This richly flavored one-pot dish is ideal for entertaining .The spices are tied in a bag for convenience,although in a traditional biryani they would be left loose. BRIYANI is made with chicken,lamp,mutton,egg,fish and vegetable. BRIYANI is different from pulaos.BRIYANI is making riches add more spices and strong flavored.while Briyani is heavy. PULAOS is light to digest and consist flavoured rice and minimum and reduced quantity of spices ,mutton,chicken pieces and selected vegetable.PULAOS also making vegetables,mutton,and chicken. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biryani http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biryani http://www.shantanughosh.com/2007/08/biryani-stories.html