It came out really yummy, according to the reviews I got from family ;-)
Here's what it looked like:
Monday, August 23, 2010
Veg Dum Biryani (contd.) - the result!
Ok people, so since I was so eager to try out the recipe...couldn't wait for a couple of days as I had originally planned...and ended up making it for dinner today.
It came out really yummy, according to the reviews I got from family ;-)
Here's what it looked like:
It came out really yummy, according to the reviews I got from family ;-)
Here's what it looked like:
Veg Dum Biriyani - Awesome recipe!
This recipe is courtesy my very good friend and neighbour, Rashmi Tripathi. The other day she had made this awesome vegetable biriyani and gave me some, and I have become a fan of it now. Hence, took the recipe from her, hoping it make it sometime soon and sharing it here:
Chop 1/2 kg of onions and fry till brown and crisp. Set aside.
Take a wok and heat a cup of oil and tip in the masalas - cloves, cardamom, black pepper, bay leaf and cinnamon and fry for some time.
Next add some potatoes (chopped into big pieces) and fry them for a while.
Now add assorted chopped vegetables - carrot, beans, capsicum, baby corn and peas.
Next, add 3 tablespoons of ginger-garlic-green chilli paste.
Now add 3-4 chopped tomatoes, turmeric, red chilli powder and salt and cook till oil segregates.
Take off the heat and add 200 gms curd.
The masala for the biriyani is now ready.
Take a wok and some bay leaf and garam masala powder and about 1/2 kg of rice and 3-4 times the water and cook till half done. Now strain the rice and discard the water.
Take a big cooking dish and layer it with the biriyani vegetables masala (made above)and then spread the half cooked rice over it and top it up with the crisp fried onions and chopped mint leaves and a little ghee. Cook on high flame for 10 minutes.
Now, keep a tava on low flame and keep the dish over it and cover with a lid and keep something heavy over it so that the lid is tight and wont allow the steam to escape. Cook over low flame for 30 minutes, so the biriyani gets cooked in 'dum' (steam).
Try this and let me know how it came out to be. I will also make it the next day or two and then post how it was!
Happy cooking and eating!!!
Chop 1/2 kg of onions and fry till brown and crisp. Set aside.
Take a wok and heat a cup of oil and tip in the masalas - cloves, cardamom, black pepper, bay leaf and cinnamon and fry for some time.
Next add some potatoes (chopped into big pieces) and fry them for a while.
Now add assorted chopped vegetables - carrot, beans, capsicum, baby corn and peas.
Next, add 3 tablespoons of ginger-garlic-green chilli paste.
Now add 3-4 chopped tomatoes, turmeric, red chilli powder and salt and cook till oil segregates.
Take off the heat and add 200 gms curd.
The masala for the biriyani is now ready.
Take a wok and some bay leaf and garam masala powder and about 1/2 kg of rice and 3-4 times the water and cook till half done. Now strain the rice and discard the water.
Take a big cooking dish and layer it with the biriyani vegetables masala (made above)and then spread the half cooked rice over it and top it up with the crisp fried onions and chopped mint leaves and a little ghee. Cook on high flame for 10 minutes.
Now, keep a tava on low flame and keep the dish over it and cover with a lid and keep something heavy over it so that the lid is tight and wont allow the steam to escape. Cook over low flame for 30 minutes, so the biriyani gets cooked in 'dum' (steam).
Try this and let me know how it came out to be. I will also make it the next day or two and then post how it was!
Happy cooking and eating!!!
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Life
It's really up to us what we do with our lives. We may have been battered, beaten, cheated, spoiled, or over-indulged. All of us have feelings and memories we need to work through. None of us had perfect families.
The question for us is how have our experiences affected us and what we need to do to learn from those experiences, to work through those lessons, integrate them into our being, turn them over and move on?
When we get stuck in our blame, anger, hurt, and denial, we are the ones who suffer. It is up to us to 'make good use of bad rubbish.'
I believe the intensity of the whack alongside the head that life has to give us in order to get a lesson through to us is directly proportional to the height and breadth of our stubbornness and illusion of control.
Problems give us the opportunity to learn something. If we don't get the learning the first time around, we get another chance, and another, and another. If we miss the learning completely the first time, the next whack will be a little harder, and then the next time even harder. We get many opportunities to learn the lessons we need to learn in this life.
Obstacles are gifts for learning. We never really know what we have learned until we have learned it. Then we are ready for the next learning.
If my life resembles a garbage dump, it is up to me to sort it through, turn over the soil, and plant flowers to make use of all the natural fertilizers...
The question for us is how have our experiences affected us and what we need to do to learn from those experiences, to work through those lessons, integrate them into our being, turn them over and move on?
When we get stuck in our blame, anger, hurt, and denial, we are the ones who suffer. It is up to us to 'make good use of bad rubbish.'
I believe the intensity of the whack alongside the head that life has to give us in order to get a lesson through to us is directly proportional to the height and breadth of our stubbornness and illusion of control.
Problems give us the opportunity to learn something. If we don't get the learning the first time around, we get another chance, and another, and another. If we miss the learning completely the first time, the next whack will be a little harder, and then the next time even harder. We get many opportunities to learn the lessons we need to learn in this life.
Obstacles are gifts for learning. We never really know what we have learned until we have learned it. Then we are ready for the next learning.
If my life resembles a garbage dump, it is up to me to sort it through, turn over the soil, and plant flowers to make use of all the natural fertilizers...
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Love
Love wasn't put in our hearts to stay, love isn't love until you give it away.
We all have an infinite capacity for loving. Sometimes, we get confused about loving, and we start thinking that we only have so much to go around. We start thinking in zero-sum terms. We believe that we only have so much love and if we give some away, we have that much less. We start parceling out our love like we pay the bills at the end of the month. We meet all of our 'love obligations', and we try to keep a little bit in savings, just in case of an emergency.
Controlled love is not loving. Obligatory love is not loving.
Love is something that flows out of our deep sense of loving ourselves. It is not possible to love another if we don't know and love ourselves.
When we love ourselves, there is no limit to the amount of love we can share. But loving can never be manufactured because we should, need to, or want to get something in return. Love is an energy that is shared because we have it.
Loving the people I know allows me to know the people I love.
We all have an infinite capacity for loving. Sometimes, we get confused about loving, and we start thinking that we only have so much to go around. We start thinking in zero-sum terms. We believe that we only have so much love and if we give some away, we have that much less. We start parceling out our love like we pay the bills at the end of the month. We meet all of our 'love obligations', and we try to keep a little bit in savings, just in case of an emergency.
Controlled love is not loving. Obligatory love is not loving.
Love is something that flows out of our deep sense of loving ourselves. It is not possible to love another if we don't know and love ourselves.
When we love ourselves, there is no limit to the amount of love we can share. But loving can never be manufactured because we should, need to, or want to get something in return. Love is an energy that is shared because we have it.
Loving the people I know allows me to know the people I love.
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