Hyderabadi Veg Dum Biryani || How to prepare veg dum biryani

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.

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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..

                 Hyderabadi Mirchi ka salan

                             Carrot rice

                                        Pudina rice

                                                Green Peas Pulao

                                           Jeera Rice

coconut rice

                                 

                                                               Mango Rice

Kashmiri Pulao

Coconut milk pulao

                             

Restaurant style curd rice

Pongal

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Bread Gulab Jamun || Instant bread gulab jamun || how to make gulab jamun using bread

Bread Gulab Jamun || Instant bread gulab jamun is super delicious, soft and melt in mouth dessert. It can be prepared easily with minimum ingredients and in less time.Best dessert recipe for coming Diwali and christmas festivals. I had milk bread readily available at home, you can use whole wheat bread too(i did not tried yet). First time i prepared this when guest came for dinner unexpectedly and nothing was there to prepare other than bread, it came out very delicious and everyone loved it 😍. I did not used baking soda, you can use it to make fluffy.  Generally we grind bread pieces into fine powder like breadcrumbs, as i am using milk bread it is very smooth and powdered easily when mashed with fingers so i did not grinded it. Main point to remember here is "Do not add milk at a time, add milk little by little" to get perfect dough. You can also make this bread gulab jamuns by stuffing dry fruits or you can sprinkle grated dry fruits on top of bread gulab jamuns while serving.

As Diwali is coming soon we bloggers decided to post sweet and savory recipes for our #218th week #DiwaliDhamaka theme at Foodie Monday Blog Hop fb group. I am sharing this melt in mouth, super soft bread gulab jamun recipe, i decided to share this recipe as it is very easy to prepare in our busy schedule at festival times. 
                                                                                                                                         



Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 20 minutes
Serves : 10 gulab jamuns
Category : Dessert
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Main ingredients : Bread
Author : Aruna SarasChandra



Ingredients

for gulab jamun

White bread - 8
milk powder - 3 tsp
milk - 1 to 2 tsp

for sugar syrup

sugar - 1 cup
water - 1 cup
elachi  powder - 1/2 tsp
oil - to deep fry
lemon juice - 1 tsp


Instructions

1) Add 1 cup sugar in a bowl for that add 1 cup water and boil it by adding elachi powder. Boil it 5 minutes on medium flames then add lemon juice, close the lid and boil on flames till the syrup becomes thick and switch off the flames. No need to boil syrup to get string consistency.

2) Cut the sides of bread slices and cut bread into pieces. Then mash it with fingers (you can also grind it in mixer jar to fine powder like bread crumbs).

3) Add 1 tsp of milk  and milk powder, knead it well and make smooth dough.( i added only 1 tsp of milk as i used milk bread it is very smooth). Do not add milk all at once(**check tips).

4) grease some ghee/oil to your hand, pinch some dough and mould it into small round balls without any cracks. Heat oil in a pan, then add prepared balls and fry it on oil flames by stirring it continuously(**check tips). 

5) Fry the balls it changes to golden brown color then immediately drop it into hot sugar syrup.

6) After dropping fried balls in sugar syrup close the lid and keep it aside for minimum 2 hours, so that gulab jamuns will absorb syrup and also doubles its size.

Bread gulab jamuns are ready to serve, serve it with any ice cream and enjoy this Diwali with your friends and family 😍🎇🎆🧨.

Tips

** You can grind bread to fine powder in mixer jar or mash it with your fingers depending on type of bread you use.

** you can also add pinch of baking soda if you want.

** You can also add few drops of rose water in sugar syrup if you want flavoured sugar syrup.

** As i used milk bread, it took only 1 tsp of milk to prepare dough, increase quantity of milk accordingly.

** Do not add milk all at once, add very little milk otherwise dough will become very sticky. 

** Grease ghee/oil to your hands so that you mould balls easily and well get perfect shape.

** Make sure that oil is not hot, if oil is hot switch off the flames and fry it continuously.

** Adding milk powder will give good taste to gulab jamuns.

** Just boil sugar to thick consistency, no need to get string consistency.

Also check other sweet and savory recipes by just clicking the link below pic..

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Rajasthani Moong Dal Halwa

yellow pumpkin halwa

                         
                             
                                                        Besan Ladoo       

                             Pineapple Sheera 

                          Sweet Pongal

                     Poha Badam Ladoo

                              

                     Ragi Peanut ladoo            

       Sabudana Coconut Ladoo

Rava Ladoo

              Puffed Rice/Maramarala Ladoo

                                        Pepper sev

Spicy masala peanuts

     Roasted Masala Chickpeas / Masala coated Kabuli Chana fry
          

Gujarat hi Methi Masala Khakhra

                                         Corn flakes chivda

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