Shahi Veg Biryani
Shahi Veg Biryani

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, shahi veg biryani. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Shahi Veg Biryani is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Shahi Veg Biryani is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook shahi veg biryani using 24 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Shahi Veg Biryani:
  1. Take 1 cup Basmati Rice, soaked in 3 cups of water for 30-40 minutes
  2. Prepare 2 tsp Biryani Masala(I always use everest Shahi Biryani Masala)
  3. Take 1 Flower of Javetri
  4. Get 6 Green Cardamom
  5. Get 4 Cloves
  6. Prepare 1.5 tsp salt
  7. Take 2.5 tbs ghee
  8. Prepare 2 medium onion thinly sliced (Keep them separate)
  9. Get 7-8 pcs cashews sliced
  10. Take 1 small potato cut into small pcs
  11. Prepare 1 pinch red food colour or 1/2tsp of liquid food color
  12. Prepare 1 tbs Garlic ginger paste
  13. Prepare 4-5 large garlic cloves crushed(to enhance the flavour)
  14. Make ready 1.5 tbs oil
  15. Make ready 2 green chilies crushed
  16. Get 1/2 tsp Jeera (Cumin seeds)
  17. Make ready 1 inch cinnamon stick (Sabut Dal cheeni)
  18. Get 1 bay leaf(Tez Patta)
  19. Get 3 whole black pepper (Saabut Kali mirch)
  20. Prepare 50gms) Cubed Paneer
  21. Prepare 1/4 cup Mattar(boiled)
  22. Take 1/2 cup plain yogurt whisked and at room temperature
  23. Get 1/2 tsp Red chili powder
  24. Get 1/4 cup water
Steps to make Shahi Veg Biryani:
  1. 1st of all Soak the rice in 3 cups of water for 30 minutes. After the rice has soaked, drain the water using strainer and keep the rice aside. - - Heat a pan full of water, add 3 green cardamom, 2 cloves and 3/4 teaspoon salt to it. Let it come to boil. - - Add rice into the pan and stir with a spoon. - - Cook it on high flame for 5-6mnts without covering it. - - Remove the pan from heat and drain the water and keep the cooked rice aside. Now add a teaspoon of ghee to the rice.
  2. Now take a Kadahi/ Wok(I used non-stick one) Add 1.5 tablespoons of ghee in it and keep the flame on medium. Once hot, add 1 sliced onion to it and cook until they turn golden brown and crispy. - - It may take around 6 to 7 minutes. Once done, transfer it into a plate and keep it aside.
  3. To the same pan, now add cashews and cook until golden brown, it will take only 1 to 2mnts, once done transfer it into the plate and set aside.
  4. Now in the pan add chopped potato and cook it for 2 minutes until light brown. Transfer it in a plate.
  5. Now add cubed paneer pcs and shallow fry for 1 to 2mnts, once it turns golden transfer it into the plate.
  6. Let's start Making Biryani now - - Heat 1.5 tablespoons oil in same kadhahi, now add cumin seeds, cinnamon stick, bay leaf, whole pepper, 3 cardamom and 2 cloves.
  7. Stir and let the spices sizzle for few seconds. Add 1 sliced onion(not the golden one which we fried, use 2nd pending sliced onion) into it and add 3/4 teaspoon salt. Cook for 2 minutes until the raw smell goes away.
  8. Now turn off the gas and add 1/2cup curd into it and whisk till it's all absorbed. - - Now turn on the gas again and keep it on medium flame. Now add Boiled Mattar, paneer, Cashews and potato into it and mix thm all.
  9. Now add 2tbs biryani masala and red chili powder to it and mix well. Add 1/4 cup of water into it and give it a boil. Now add cooked rice into it and mix well and keep it on the flame for another 5mnts and cover the kadhai with a lid. After 5 minutes give it a final mix and your biryani is ready.
  10. Now take 1tsp of water and add a pinch of red food colour to it and pour it onto Biryani and give a gentle mix (if using liquid food colour pour 1/2 tsp of it onto the biryani) - Now your Shahi Veg Biryani is ready to serve - - Now serve the biryani with Raita or simple curd and top the biryani with those golden onions while serving it(1 sliced onion we fried in the beginning). - Richa Kapoor - Author

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