Punjabi cuisine is the most well known cuisine not only in India but around the world too. Punjabi food who doesn’t love them? Well I have never been to punjab but the i love the parathas curries and flavoured rice. Punjabis are great lovers of wheat, they hardly cook plain rice for regular meals. Their rice is flavored with cumin/or a varied number of spices. To have a quick tour of the cuisine of Punjab visit Richa’s As Dear as Salt who is hosting Lakshmi from VeggieCuisine’s RCI for Punjabi Cuisine.
Handi Vegetable Biryani
All you need:
for the paste:
quartered – onions 1
ginger – 2 inch
garlic pods – 5
To make Rice:
Basmati Rice – 1.5 cups
whole garam masala
bay leaves – 2
cinamon – 1 large cut into medium pieces
black pepper – 1 tsp
cloves – 6-8
others:
chilli powder – 3 tsp
tumeric powder -1 tsp
garam masala powder- 2 tsp(punjabi everest)
yogurt/2 tbsp
tomatoes – 1
mixed vegetables(carrot/beans/cauliflower/peas)
to fry
cashews – 8
onions sliced thinely – 1
capsicum sliced – 1
- Make a paste of onion, ginger and garlic.
- Soak rice for half an hour. Cook rice in salted water and whole garam masala until grainy. keep aside let it cool.
- Take oil in a kadai, fry cashews to gloden brown drain keep aside.
- Fry onions until crisp drain and keep aside. Fry capsicums until soft.
- Half boil vege like beans/carrot/potato in microwave for 2 mins, preserve the stock for gravy.
- Take a wok to make the curry, heat 2 tbsp ghee/oil
- Fry the paste until raw smell dissappears, add the masala powders and tomatoes cook until tomatoes are done
- Add mixed veges, salt Bring to boil add curds. stir well until oil seperates out.
- Take a oven proof casserole grease oil or butter
- Add the cooked1/4 of the cooked rice. Spread half of the curry. Add again 1/4 of rice spread the half of onions, cashews capsicums, coriander leaves. Again repeat with rest of the rice
- Seal the caserole and bake it for 15 mins at 230 c.
- Serve hot rice with any accompanied raita.
Recipe source: Bawarchi.com
Mushroom Mattar Makani (source: Tarla Dalal cook book)
All you need
Mushrooms – 2 cups(i used button mushrooms)
Boiled peas – 1/2 cup
For paste
onions – 1 sliced
tomatoes – 1 cut into chunks
garlic pods – 4
ginger – 2 tsp
cashews – 4 cut into pieces
Boil all the above and grind into paste
Others
jeera/cumin seeds – 1 tsp
kasuri methi – 2 tsp
garam masala – 1 tsp (punjabi Everest)
chilli powder – 2 tsp
Cream – 1 tbsp
coriander leaves for garnish
Method:
- Take oil/ghee in a kadai add cumin seeds when hot.
- Add the masala paste once the cumin seeds are light brown color
- Simmer for few minutes until oil seperates
- Add all the masala powders, salt and cream
- Add mushrooms and peas and bring to boil. Garnish with coriander leaves
- Serve hot with parathas.
Both the recipes are too good. They are looking very tasty 🙂
The presentatin for Biryani is gr8 🙂
I missed sme of your recent entries…how come?did you post it altogether recently//coz you were away as well!!!
Nice entry for RCI…didnt know all these belong to Punjabi..
Love Handi biriyani with mushroom masala..Thatz the ULTIMATE combo…hope you had a fabulous treat with those two!!:)
Your entry’s very inviting!
Tasty Combination. Slight variations in the spices give a different to Biryani everytime. The Mushroom Makhani looks delicious.
Sorry Roopa should have read “Slight variations in the spices give a different taste to Biryani everytime”
Both the dishes look delicious.
I’m going to try the musroom for sure.
i have mushrooms. will try your dish.
wow! that looks awesome, the gravy looks so good. did you pressure cook the masala or just boil in sauce pan?
biryani looks yum, very well presented, loved it.
thanks
that is a delicious entry. looks yummmmm!!!
They both are looking very YUM!…..colourful dish……love it…
Hi Roopa! vegetable biryani looks yummy. I want to try this. Great entry too. Thanks for sharing.
perfect meal combo!!!! Love your version of Mushroom makhni and if you have biryani to go with it!!!! WAH! Great entry
Ooh! Both dishes are yummy and goes well together as well.Next time ,cook both on the same day!:D
Love the Handi Biryani Roopa.Great entries:)
Both dishes look yum. Somehow I have never tried to cook biryani and never even heard of mushroom matar makhani.
Thx forr sharing these recipes.
oh ho ho ho…. 🙂 looks like someone is busy cooking all yummy punjabi food. bk in my college days we had one small dhaba few kms away from coll n we friedns used to go there in our bike and eat food in dhaba style with all those lorry drivers sitting around 🙂 it used to be fun….
Your mushroom is mouth watering and the rice too.
Both are great 🙂 nice recipes.
excellent one ….yummy and tasty ..both looks great
Hey, the biryani looks wonderful. I’m sure it would have tasted gr8.
Hi Roopa, the biryani and mushrooms both look wonderful — I’d love to have for a midnight snack!! With your recipe too, I now have a good reason to get some whole garam masala so I can try 😉
Linda
Loved both the recipes, especially the second one…love mushrooms..
oooooooh biriyani and mushrooms … Iam fasting today and I am drooling over here looking at all these lovely recipes.
That mushroom makhani looks too good. Have never tried it
Roopa, the biryani and mushroom gravy look absolutely tempting… it’s a definite must-try.
Hi Roopa
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Hi Roopa,
Great entry…….both recipe is delicious……….I also thought I make this vegetable biryani but you make first so I change it…….Your dish looks perfect with Punjabi Cuisine.:))
Yummy Briyani, Nice entry. Enjoyed reading your meme. I’m like u when it comes to pets:). Not that i’m worried but somehow I love watching them from distance.
Thanks ri comment maadidhikhe. Nimgu nimma maneyavarigu Ganesha chaturthiya shubhashayagalu. Jog falls photo sakathagidhe! Neevu maadiruva thindigalannela noodidhare, nange Bengalooru naapaka barathe. Maddur vade nanna fav. Shall try it some time n let you know how it turned out antha. Allivargu happy blogging.
Hai, wat great dish yar good!nanu kannadavalu manglore navalu.ninna yella recipe ista aithu.