Vegetable Biryani from Dinesh

I'm excited to have my first guest-writing sharing an authentic Indian recipe with me!!

Dinesh Kumar is an ingeneer from Kanpur (North-India, state of Uttar Pradesh), who lives since 2 years in Brussels for his Phd-research. He has also lived a few years in Bangalore (South-India) and one year in South-Korea.

                                        

this is what he has to say about his Vegetable Biryani : 

"I always use this basic and simple recipe to make various kind of dishes. I just learnt cooking from my experiments: variation in spices and ingredients.

Here is what I follow and cook awesome dishes. Its very simple, after 2-3 experiments you can also cook nice and tasty food. "

Ingredients: Basmati rice, mixed vegetables, onion, tomato, garam masala*, coriander powder, turmeric powder. * (garam masala is a mixure of indian spices you can find easily at nearest Indian grocery store.)

1.      Cook rice nicely

2.      Chop 2 onions

3.      Heat the oil, add cumin seeds (1 tea spoon), or mustard seeds (half spoon).

4.      Fry nicely chopped onion until golden brown. Add salt according to taste.

5.      Add the finely chopped mixed vegetables and fry for 6-8 minutes.

6.      Add garam masala powder 1 tea spoon.

7.       Add chopped tomato and fry it for 2-3 minutes.

8.       Add the cooked rice and stir well to combine

9.       Heat it for 4-5 minutes. Add a tea spoon of lemon juice or ghee.

Enjoy your meal!!!!!

Variations: Keep doing different experiments to make something new:

- Instead of rice you can use boil noodles .  It will become a new dish! Try vegetable noodles. 

- You can use macaroni or pasta  instead of rice.

- You can add boiled eggs  also after step 5.

- You can make omelette and can add after step 6.

- You can add the ½ teaspoon ginger powder, garlic or  black peperwith garam masala at step 6 to vary the taste.

Dinesh Kumar