Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, pongal kootu veg biryani. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Pongal festival itself is a harvest festival, to show gratitude to the Mother Nature to help us harvest nicely with enough monsoon. 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 Kootu Veg Biryani is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have 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:

1. Take 1 tbsp tamarind pulp
2. Prepare 1/2 cup toor dal
3. Take 1 chopped potato
4. Get 1 chopped carrot
5. Take 1/2 cup chopped broad beans
6. Take 1/2 cup chopped French beans
7. Prepare 1 chopped sweet potato
8. Prepare 100 grams pumpkin chopped
9. Take 1 chopped ash gourd
10. Make ready 2-4 dry red chillies
11. Get 1 tbsp chana dal
12. Make ready 2 tbsp coriander seeds
13. Prepare 1/2 cup grated coconut
14. Get 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
15. Prepare 2 tbsp oil
16. Prepare 1 tsp mustard seeds
17. Get 1 pinch asafoetida
18. Make ready 2 cups Basmati Rice
19. Get 5-6 leaves curry
20. Make ready 1 stick cinnamon
21. Make ready 2 dried bay leaves
22. Prepare 1 tsp pepper corns
23. Take 3-4 cloves
24. Take 1 star anise
25. Get 1 maze flower
26. Make ready to taste Salt
27. Get 1/2 cup milk
28. Prepare 3-4 string strands of saffron

You can find the link here. You… This is a one pot meal that can be made in no time and is a perfect lunch box recipe. So let's move on to the recipe, do try this lovely, colourful, flavourful and delectable kothamalli biryani and post your comments here. Do check out other interesting Veg Biryani/Non-Veg Biryani's here and have a great day.

Instructions to make Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani:

1. Tie cinnamon stick, dried bay leaves, pepper corns, cloves, star anise, maze flower in a small piece of muslin cloth and keep aside
2. Wash rice and cook them with double water, muslin potli of spices and salt to taste
3. In a pressure cooker, cook washed toor dal and mash it well
4. In another pan put all the chopped veggies and cover them with little water and cook covered till soft
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Cook till most of the water is absorbed as we don’t want it to be much liquid for biryani.
9. Heat remaining oil and add red chillies, asafetida, mustard seeds and curry leaves and let them crackle. Now put this tempering in prepared Kootu
10. And finally layer the biryani in a microwave safe pot, one layer rice then one layer of Kootu and repeat it till your preference
11. 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

Vegetable Biryani Is a treat for vegetarians. 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. Its a South Indian style side dish for rice. Usually my mom makes avial(her signature recipe) for sambar sadam.

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