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Kuska is a kind of biryani without any vegetables and it is a popular food in southern part of Tamilnadu. This is my grand ma’s recipe, whenever I go to her house in Dindugul, she makes this kuska biryani for me. In this kuska recipe, the long grain rice is cooked in a pressure cooker along with some aromatic spices, mint leaves, onion, tomato and ginger garlic paste. The outcome of the biryani is just flavorful, spicy and yummy. You can make this easy kuska biryani, if you run out of veggies at home. Best accompaniment for this biryani are some potato curry or protein rich gravy like soy chunks mushroom curry and raita.
Preparation Time : 30 mins
Cooking Time : 10 Mins
Makes : 2 ServingsIngredients for Kuska Biryani (Dindugul Style)1 Cup of Basmati Rice
1 Big Red Onion, Finely Chopped
2 Tsp of Ginger Garlic Paste
4 Green Chilly
1 Tsp of Coriander Powder
1 Small Tomato, Finely Chopped
3/4 Tbsp of Dried Mint Leaves, You can use Fresh Mint Leaves(Handful)
1 Tbsp of Coriander Leaves, Finely Chopped
1 Cup of Water
1/2 Cup of Milk
Salt to TasteTo Grind
2 Cloves
1 Inch Cinnamon Stick
2 Green CardamomTo Temper
3 Tsp of Oil
1 Bay Leaf
1 Star Anise
Pinch of Stone Flower
4 Curry LeavesOther Ingredients
1 Tbsp of Coriander Leaves, Chopped
2 Tsp of GheeMethod for Kuska Biryani (Dindugul Style)
- Soak the rice in water for 20 mins. Drain and wash it in tap water. Keep it aside.
- Grind cloves, cinnamon and cardamom in a spice grinder or mixie to a fine powder.
- Finely chop the onion and tomato. Slit the green chilies. Keep it aside.
- Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add bay leaf, stone flower, curry leaves and star anise, fry for a min. In a medium flame, add the ground spice powder, fry it for 30 secs. Add chopped onion and green chilly, fry it for 2 mins until it changes golden brown. Add ginger garlic paste, fry it until the raw smell vanishes. Add tomato, fry it until it turns soft and mushy.
- Now add mint leaves, coriander leaves and coriander powder, fry this for a min. Add rice, fry for another min, add water, milk and salt. Cover and cook it for 2 whistles in a cooker. Turn off the flame, let the pressure releases on its own.
- Open the cooker, add chopped coriander leaves and ghee, give a gentle stir with a fork.
- Hot, yummy kuska is ready to serve with spicy mushroom gravy and raita.
Tips
- If you don’t have stone flower and star anise, just use bay leaf for tempering.
- If you have small onion(shallots), you can use that in place of large onion.
- Increase or decrease the number of green chilly according to your taste.
- You can also use 3 green chilies and 1/2 tsp of red chilly powder to this rice.
- Don’t add turmeric powder to kuska.
- Adding ghee after pressure cooking gives a nice taste and flavor to rice.
- You can use jeeraga samba rice in place of basmati rice.
- For basmati rice, the water ratio is 1 : 1.5 Water. You can use coconut milk in place of water or you can use 1 cup of water and 1/2 cup of cow’s milk, like I did.
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Yummy dish,I love your shots
Oh that is such a yummy looking biriyani and the veg curry on side looks like non veg …yum …
ya..it looks like non veg..but it’s a soy chunk mushroom curry..
Very inviting biryani. Very nice presentation.
Flavorful and aromatic biriyani, looks very delicious.
Yummy aromatic biryani.. Easy one pot meal
That looks so yummy.. Nice presentation too, neat clicks.. there are some places where they still serve biryani made with chicken as kuska, they just remove the meat from it. This is the better option, very useful for vegetarians 🙂
ya..thanks for the info divya..
Delicious rice dish. Never heard of it yet I am impressed with the preparation with interesting ingredients.
looks yummy
Beautiful clicks and very tempting kuska recipe.
My fav.must try soon
Rice looks so delish and cooked to perfection 🙂 love it
Never thought of make it this way!! nice and interesting recipe 🙂
Kuska is all time fav , looks yummy !
Love u have now…
The clicks r fabulous.. Lovely biryani, New to me, but good one indeed.. 🙂
surem, this shud be soo rich in flavours, what if there is no veggies added. lovely rice, Gayathri.
Hadnt been to blogsphere for quite some time. Hope you doing good. Keep in touch 🙂
rgds…
Very tasty khushka. So well prepared. Bookmarked to try.
Thanks for sharing.
Terrific looking dish! This looks wonderfully flavorful – thanks so mluch.
My fav Kushka.. last week i made it with little changes .. post it soon. thanks for sharing,..will try ur method next time..
Wow it does have a tempting look…esp. the side…. looked so much like a non veg side
such a tempting biryani with crystal clear pictures!!!
yummy kuska dear…well prepared
Very flavorful and delicious bririyani
very tempting biryani and very flavorful rice….
Kuska looks real yummy and perfectly cooked !
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