Non-Vegetarian people always tell me, a veg Biryani can never beat the taste of Mutton or Chicken Biryani. Challenge Accepted.
Being a vegetarian, I know how to make my biryani taste good. And this Nutrela Dum Biryani is exactly that. Its spicy, its juicy, its delicious, and the Nutrela pieces make it look as if there are pieces of chicken in it, which makes Nutrela Dum Biryani equally good for non-vegetarians as well.
Below is the recipes of Nutreal Dum Biryani with step by step insntructions along with pictures. I hope you will love this one as well.
Preparation Time: 15 Minutes
Cooking Time: 30 Minutes
Serving: 4
Ingredients for Nutrela:
| Ingredients | Quantity |
| Nutrela | 2 cup |
| Onion | 4 |
| Vegetable oil | 1/4 cup |
| Cumin seeds | 1 teaspoon |
| Cardamom brown | 2 |
| Cardamom green | 3 |
| Black pepper | 1/2 teaspoon |
| Cloves | 4 |
| Nutmeg powder | 1/8 teaspoon |
| Mace powder | 1/8 teaspoon |
| Cinnamon stick | 1/2 inch piece |
| Bay leaf | 2 |
| Red chilly powder | 1 teaspoon |
| Turmeric powder | 1/2 teaspoon |
| Salt | to taste |
| Coriander powder | 1 teaspoon |
Ingredients for Rice:
| Ingredients | Quantity |
| Basmati Rice | 4 cup |
| Cumin seeds | 1 teaspoon |
| Cardamom green | 4 |
| Cardamom brown | 2 |
| Bay leaf | 2 |
| Cinnamon stick | 1 inch piece |
| Cloves | 4 |
| Black pepper | 1/2 teaspoon |
| Salt | to taste |
| Food color | a pinch |
| Fried onions | 1/2 cup |
| Mint leaves | 1/4 cup |
| Green chilly | 5 |
| Kewra water | 1/8 cup |
| Milk | 2 tablespoon |
| Vegetable oil | 2 tablespoon |
Method:
1. Soak Nutrela in water for half an hour, drain the water. Take soaked nutrela into the pressure cooker and add all the spices given in the table “ Ingredients for nutrela “.
2. Mix it well, and pressure cook it for one whistle on high flame, then cook for another 7-8 minutes on low flame.
3. Switch off the flame, and let the pressure settles down. Open cooker, if you see some water left in the cooker, cook on high flame to evaporates the water. Keep it aside for dum. Take another aluminum wok with 1-1/2 liter water and add cumin seeds, cardamom brown & green, cloves, black pepper, bay leaf, cinnamon stick and salt. Now boil the water.
4. Add soaked rice in the boiled water and cook on high flame till the rice properly cooked and drain the water (take out one rice and if you can mash it between your fingers, it is ready).
5. Take another non stick wok and add half of the cooked rice.
6. Then put cooked nutrela, fried onion, green chilly, mint leaves and add leftover rice on the top of nutrela. (Layering as we mentioned earlier)
7. Take milk and kewra water into a bowl and add food color. Sprinkle kewra-milk water on the biryani and garnish with mint leaves and leftover fried onions. Cook covered on low to medium heat for 8-10 minutes. Delicious Nutrela dum biryani is ready, serve hot with yogurt, salad and your favorite beverages.
8. Enjoy!!
