Vegetarian Biryani with a Tang

Ingredients:

2 cups rice

2 Badi Elaichi

2 small/ choti elaichi

2 tejpatas / bay leaf

2 dalchini stick

4 long cloves

2 post Dana 

2 spoons saunf or fennel seeds

4 red chilies

4 stick dalchini

1 spoon red chilly powder

6 Big Red Tomatoes

2 onions

Pudina / cilantro leaves

Salt

1 cup Desi ghee

Method of preparation :

Take rice, 2 dalchini, 2 Badi elaichi, 2 small/ choti elaichi, 2 tejpatas / bay leaf, 4 long cloves ( all khada masalas ) and boil them all together till the rice are well cooked. Strain the water out of the rice and let the rice cool in a bowl.

Take 2 spoons  post Dana, 4 red chillies, 2 spoon saunf, and four stick dalchini and grind them all together. 

Take one pan and boil the tomatoes and soak in cold water to peel them off. After this is done, mash the potatoes in a blender.

Take a pan and put 3 tablespoons desi ghee and add the tomato pulp and the grounded masalas. Add salt to taste. When this is cooked well on medium flame, turn off the gas.

Take onions cut in long slices and fry them in a little ghee until brown. Put this in a separate bowl.

Take one large borosil bowl, and take some rice and fill it upto 1/4th of the bowl. Next layer will be adding the tomato masala and on top of it the fried onions and pudina leaves and two spoons desi ghee.

Similarly, do this two times more to make the layers, until your top most layer has rice on the top.  Cover the bowl with the kling foil and put it in the microwave for about 10-15 mins to steam it.

You will now be able to smell the tempting aroma of the biryani. Take the biryani and transfer it to a rice plate for serving with yogurt and green chutney.!!

Your laajawaab tamatar ki biryani is ready!!