Love to eat vegetable biryani, but feeling lazy to do on a weekend or busy weekdays, then try this easy vegetable biryani recipe in cooker. As name suggest, this biryani is very easy to make and is loaded with lots of healthy vegetables and aromatic spices. This is one of my favourite one pot meal which is rich in taste  yet simple to make because of the addition of ghee( clarified butter)and milk. You can also make this biryani with an alternate flavor profile by adding coconut milk, but in this preparation I added cows milk.
Making vegetable biryani recipe in pressure cooker is very easy … just temper the spices in ghee , throw some onion, tomatoes, green chillies, all the colourful veggies and salt, saute for few mins, finally add required water and rice and cook until done( pressure cookers might vary ) . Hot flavourful vegetable biryani recipe is ready in minutes. It goes well with spicy gravies like aloo palak,korma, cucumber raita or potato chips.

Ingredients For Vegetable Biryani Recipe in cooker

• 1 Cup of Basmati Rice
• 2 Carrots, Finely Chopped
• 15 Beans, Finely Chopped
• 1 Medium Size Potato, Cubed
• 1/4 Cup of Green Peas (Frozen)
• 1 Big Red Onion, Finely Chopped or 2 Mediumsize Red Onion
• 4 Garlic Cloves, Big
• 1 Inch of Ginger
• 3 Green Chillies
• 2 Tomatoes, Finely Chopped
• 1 Tbsp of Curd (Yogurt)
• 7 Mint Leaves
• Handful of Coriander Leaves, Finely Chopped
• 1 Tbsp of Lemon Juice
• Salt to taste
• 1.5 Cups of Milk

    To Temper

• 1.5 Tbsp of Ghee
• 2 Cloves
• 1 Cinnamon, Medium Size
• 1 Cardamom
• 1 Bay Leaf

Method

• Soak basmati rice in water for 30 mins, drain and wash the rice in tap water for 2 times. Keep aside.
• Wash and  finely chop the vegetables, onion and tomatoes. Slit the green chilies. In a blender, add ginger and garlic and make a ginger garlic paste.
• Take a pressure cooker, heat ghee, when it is hot, add cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, fry for a min. Add chopped red onion, slited green chillies and salt, fry for 2 mins, until onion turns golden brown. Add ginger garlic paste, fry for few mins until raw smell vanishes.
• Add chopped tomato, mint leaves and coriander leaves, saute until tomatoes turns soft and mushy.
• Add carrots, beans, potato and peas, saute this for few mins. Add curd and rice, saute this for few secs.
• Add milk, check the salt. Close the lid and pressure cook it for 2 whistles. Turn off the flame.
• Open the cooker, add lemon juice, mix gently with fork.
• Serve hot with any spicy gravies like aloo palak, korma or cucumber raita and potato chips.

   Tips

• You can use small onions instead of large onions.
• Use coconut milk in place of cows milk to get a rich taste.
• If you don’t have whole spices, just add 1 tsp of garam masala.
• Don’t break the rice while mixing.
• If you are weight conscious, add oil in place of ghee.
• If you feel lazy to grind ginger garlic paste, finely chop the ginger and garlic, add it to the oil, saute well until raw smell vanishes.
• Don’t have pressure cooker, then try biryani in stove top. For that you need a heavy bottomed pan with perfect fitting lid then follow the above recipe and cook in a low flame.
• You can also use nuts to garnish.

    Health Benefits of Vegetables and spices

• Vegetables are home for antioxidants.
• Vegetables are packed with soluble and insoluble fibers.
• They are rich in vitamins and minerals.
• Spices like cinnamom has anti microbial property and controls sugar levels.
• Cardamom good for heart burn and increases blood circulation.
• Cloves good for teeth pain, boosts metabolism and immune system.

Idiyappam is also called Sevai in tamil and string hoppers in English. It is a popular food in Kerala and Tamilnadu, India. Usually everyone makes idiyappam with rice flour, but this idiyappam is made with wheat flour. I have already posted the recipe for Plain / rice idiyappam.. This wheat flour idiyappam is a healthy, delicious and a steamed food, which is very good for our health. My amma makes it often for weekend breakfast. It is favorite food for all ages and even it can be eaten by sick people. This wheat idiyappam must be good and healthy food for diabetic people. You can eat this idiyappam in sweet version or savory version for breakfast or dinner. I already posted the savory version, lemon idiyappam. If you want sweeter version, try it with sweetened coconut milk… Try this wheat(godhumai)sevai / Wheat String hoppers for breakfast and stay healthy..
     

               Ingredients

• 1 Cup of Wheat Flour
• 1 Cup of Water
• 1/2 Tsp of Salt
• 1 Tsp of Oil / Ghee
• 1/2 Cup of Coconut Grating

               

               Yield : 12 Idiyappam

   

                Method

• Heat a pan, fry the whole wheat flour in a medium flame for 5-7 mins until you find the flour turning dark brown at the bottom of pan. Turn off the flame.

• Transfer the flour to the mixing bowl.

 

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• Heat a pan with water, oil/ghee and salt, let it boil for few mins, it should not be too hot.. Turn off the flame. Pour the water to the bowl containing wheat flour. Mix well with a fork/spoon. Let it cool down.

• Knead the flour as you do for chapathi dough. If you feel your dough is dry, you can add 2 Tbsp of Water  and knead it again.

 

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• Now it’s time to take idiyappam press, grease well with oil on inside.Take dough in cylindrical form and place it in idiyappam press.

• Hand press the dough into swirls onto the greased idly plates with coconut gratings. Steam this in idly cooker for 10 mins.

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• Carefully invert the plate to a casserole.

• Repeat the process for the rest of the dough.

• Serve hot with sweetened coconut milk or vegetable korma or curry.

• you can eat idiyappam in sweet version or savory version.