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Hyderabadi Veg Dum Biryani with step by step pics and tips - today's recipe is Hyderabad popular and most loved Vegetable dum biryani. It is very tasty and aromatic , it is generally prepared with basamati / long grain rice. It is generally prepared with meat and vegetables, today i am sharing veg version dum biryani. Today i used potato, carrot,beans and cauliflower, we can also use peas and paneer too. So what is dum meaning - it is basically a foreign term for breathing(info from google). This dum biryani differs from regular biryani that we cook, it is prepared in pot sealed with dough on low flame by spreading veg gravy and cooked basmati in layers. If pot not available we can also prepare in kadai(i too prepared in kadai). We can have this biryani with any simple raita's or fruit based raita like pomegranate raita, today i had it with boondi raita. Also check few rice varieties from my blog - Green Peas Pulao, Jeera Rice, Kashmiri Pulao, Coconut milk pulao, Carrot rice, Pudina rice, Mango Rice, Ven Pongal,Restaurant style curd rice, Curry leaves powder rice.

Hyderabad is popular for pearls, food and IT, it is popularly known as "the city of pearls ". Few popular places to visit @Hyderabad is Golconda Fort, Charminar, Salar Jung Museum, Hussain Sagar, Ramoji Film city, Chowmahalla Palace, Taj Falaka numa Palace, temples like Birla Mandir, Chilkur Balaji Temple, Iskcon temple, Yadagiri gutta, Sanghi temple, Peddamma Thalli temple, Sri Jagannath Mandir .. Masjids like Mecca Masjid, Medak Church is very popular church in Telangana. Hyderabad is also famous for shopping mainly for bangles @charminar and pearls, best place for shopping is Koti, Monda market, Paradise etc. I have many memories which i never forgot in my life, i completed my M.C.A @Nrupathunga College and worked here as a s/w. I got chance to taste many tasty foods and visit many popular places. Paradise biryani with Hyderabadi mirchi ka salan and Qubani ka meetha with ice cream @Hotel Paradise, idli sambar and cone ice cream @Swati hotel , punugulu and pani poori @Ameerpet are my favorite food. Few popular food from hyderabad is biryani, haleam, irani chai, Falooda, double ka meeta, sarva pindi, sakinalu etc..

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Taking this aromatic and super tasty "Hyderabadi Veg Dum Biryani" to Shhhhh Secretly Cooking Challenge fb group started by Priya of Priyas Versatile Recipes and taken further till date by Mayuri she blogs at Mayuris jikoni. Here admins will select one Indian state in alphabetical order. And they pick pairs for theme, pairs will share 2 ingredients, using that ingredients we will prepare recipe and post it in group album. Other group members will guess the secret ingredient.

For this month October we bloggers preparing Telangana Cuisine, I am very much of excited to share this dum biryani as it is one of my favorite. My partner for this month is Mayuri di, who blogs at Mayuris jikoni, do visit her place for different varieties of food from different regions. I surely tell you that you will love her space. I mainly love her write up, she not only explain the recipe but also give full information about recipe and its origins, which i am trying to adopt in my blog :). Mayuri di gave me mace and curd,these two are main ingredients to prepare dum biryani. I gave besan and coriander powder as two secret ingredients, with that she prepared attu-tunukala-tunaka-koora, i loved many recipes and bookmarked leopard patch spot bread, chocolate-phirni to prepare soon.

let's start recipe..

Hyderabadi Dum Biryani

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time : 40 to 50 minutes
Serves : 4
Category : Biryani / Pulao
Recipe Cuisine: Telangana / Hyderabad
Main ingredient: Basmati / long grain rice
Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

For cooking rice

Basmati rice - 11/2 cup
water - 8 cups
oil- 1 tsp
ghee- 1 tsp
elachi - 2
clove - 4
cinnamon stick - 1 inch
bay leaf - 2
pepper - 5
star anise - 1
salt - 1 tsp

For gravy

oil- 3 tsp
ghee - 2 tsp
shah jeera - 1 tsp
elachi - 2
cloves - 2
bay leaf - 1
mace -2
star anise -1
cinnamon stick - 1 inch
onion - 3
green chili -2
mixed vegetables(potatoes, carrot, cauliflower, beans) - 1 cup
(you can also add peas and paneer too)
curd - 11/2 cup
ginger - garlic paste - 1 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
red chili powder -1 tsp(adjust)
biryani masala powder - 1 tsp
salt - as per taste
saffron - 1 pinch
mint / pudina leaves - 1/4 cup (chopped)

Others

onion - 2 or fried onions/ birista - 1/4 cup
coriander leaves - 2 tsp
wheat flour - to seal

Instructions

1) Firstly soak basmati rice for 20 to 30 mints, in this mean time chop all the veggies and prepare birista/ fried onions . Chop onions fine to prepare birista or use readily available fried onions. For this we have to deep fry or shallow fry onions in oil. I shallow fried onion by heating oil in a kadai .

2) clean and chop all the veggies.

3) after 20 to 30 min Heat a kadai with oil and ghee then all spices mentioned in 'for cooking rice' one after other fry till you get nice aroma on low flame. Add water salt let it boil, then add soaked and washed basmati rice cook it for 7 to 10 minutes or till the rice is almost cooked on medium flames. Check rice with fingers if it starts breaking then switch off flames and drain it using strainer and add some cold water, strain water and keep it aside openly.

3) Now we will start gravy preparation, for this heat a pan with 3 tsp of oil , 1 tsp of ghee . Then add all the spices(elachi, bay leaf,clove star anise, mace, cinnamon stick) fry till you get nice aroma.

4) Now add onions and green chilli fry till it changes color then add ginger garlic paste fry till raw smell goes out.

5) Now add all chopped veggies fry it for few minutes, then add curd, turmeric , red chilli powder , biryani masala, salt mix everything well. Add 1 cup of water and cook on medium to low flames till veggies cook well.

6) Gravy is ready, now we will start layering biryani. Take a wide kadai/pan/pot spread gravy for 1st layer, then spread rice on it spread pudina, fried onions and saffron water.

7) Now again spread remaining vegetable gravy on rice then spread rice remaining birista/fried onions, pudina/mint leaves , saffron , coriander leaves and 1 tsp of ghee.

8) Layering is completed now preparing thick wheat dough by adding water and seal the kadai well.(sealing pic is missing will update soon).

Cook the above sealed kadai for 10 minutes on ready. Now Hyderabadi Dum Biryani is ready to serve, i served it with boondi raita. Enjoy your day with your loved ones.

How to serve this Dum Biryani

-- Remove dough after leaving biryani aside for some time, do not mix the biryani just like other biryani.

Tips

** Use basmati rice to get good taste,texture and aroma.

**Soak rice for minimum 20 minutes.

** As peas and paneer are not readily available i skipped it, you can use vegetables of you choice.

** You can also add fried cashew nuts and raisins.

** Layering biryani is must as it is dum biryani.

** There are few ways(which i know) to seal the kadai
1) using wheat flour dough.
2) use silver foil
3) close it with thick cotton cloth and close the lid tightly and keep weight on the lid. (will try to update pics soon).

** Use heavy bottom kadai / pot to prepare this biryani.

** After sealing biyani cook it on very low flames.

** do not serve immediately after preparing. As per experience i am telling this biryani taste very good after preparation of few hours.

** Add ginger garlic paste according, as few ppl do not like it.

** Use good quality basmati rice to get good taste and texture.

** If you feel rice over cooked and became sticky then add some more oil on it and keep it under fan.

These are some tips hope it is helpful to you while cooking.

Also check other biryani / pulao /rice items just by clicking the link below pic..