1st step: Your first action in making this dish will be to cook the potato cubes, carrots, and okra in a pan of boiling salted water. You will have to boil these contents for about 7 to 8 minutes. What you’ll have to do next is drain well and place all of the contents into a large bowl. The next step requires you to mix the contents with the celery, mushrooms, and eggplant.
Step Two: Make a mixture of ginger, garlic, curry powder, turmeric and unsweetened yogurt.You must take care that all the ingredients are mixed together properly. With a spoon add this mixture into the vegetable. Let the vegetable marinate for atleast 2 1/2 hours. This dish needs some time for marination, so it cannot be made instantly.
3rd Step: Take your butter and heat it in a heavy skillet. You should add the sliced onions to the skillet and cook them over a medium heat. Continue cooking the onions for about six minutes, or until they are soft and golden brown looking. Remove a few of the onions from the pan and reserve them for your garnish. Cook the rice in a large pan of boiling water as you are doing this. Allow the rice to cook for about 8 minutes. Just remember to drain them meticulously and set them aside for future use.
Step Four: Now take the marinated vegetable and add it to the cooked brown onions. Cook the vegetables for close to 10 minutes.Take a big casserole dish and put in atleast half of the cooked rice into it. On top of the rice, place a spoonful of cooked vegetables. Again on top of it put the residual rice and cover the dish. In a preheated oven cook the biryani at 375 degree for about 25 mins .Once cooked remove from the oven.
Spoon the biryani on to a warm serving plate. Your last step would be to garnish the dish with the onions you held to the side. Also garnish the food with cilantro. You have now cooked yourself a Vegetable Biryani dish! Enjoy your taste of India!!
For further information on the various styles of vegetable biriyani please visit the ifood community at vegetable biriyani Those interested in chicken biryani recipes can take a check out chicken biryani