INGREDIENTS:

1 cup Basmati rice
1/4 cup french beans
1/4 cup carrot
1/4 cup potato
1/4 cup fresh peas
7 bay leaves
4 cloves

4 star anise (star flower spice)

2 inch cinnamon

1 tsp ginger garlic paste
1/2 tsp garam masala / Biryani masala

7 green chilies chopped lengthwise

1 big onion

3 tbsp oil
a pinch of mustard seeds and jeera

PROCEDURE:

• Chop onions, french beans, carrot, potato lengthwise and Soak the rice in 3 cups of water and keep aside.
• Heat a pressure cooker with oil for 2-3 mins then add mustard seeds,jeera and ginger garlic paste. Saute for few seconds and add spices and green chilies, saute for few more seconds till it becomes aromatic.
• Now add onions and saute for couple of minutes till onion become tender, make sure onions are not over cooked.
• Now add all the chopped veggies and peas. Saute for 5 minutes on low flame

• Add soaked rice along with water. 

• Add garam masala (you can also use biryani masala) and salt as required.

•  Mix well and pressure cook for 4 whistles.

• Hot and yummy veg biryani is ready to serve with raitha.

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20:25:00

Delicious!!AppleHalwa!!
 Each one of the halwa is delicious on its own but this one is an interesting and tasty one. Must try.

INGREDIENTS:

1 Apple

2 tbsp Ghee

10 cashew
10 Raisins
5 Almond/Badam
1/3 cup of sugar

PROCEDURE:

• Heat a pan with 1 tbsp of ghee and add cashews,raisins,almonds. Saute till cashew turn golden brown and raisins puff up. Remove cashews,raisins from the pan and keep aside.

• Peel, deseed and grate the apple. Note: peel the apple after roasting the nuts to avoid the decolorization of apple.

• Heat the same pan with the remaining ghee, add grated apple. Saute till apple get dry.

• Add sugar and saute till the sugar melts and sticky.

• Add remaining 1 tbsp of ghee, saute and add cashews, raisins and almonds. Mix well and serve delicious apple halwa warm.

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20:59:00