Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, pongal kootu veg biryani. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a 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 meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pongal kootu veg biryani using 28 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani:

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

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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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