Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pongal kootu veg biryani. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This kootu is very flavourful with all our naatu kaigaris (country vegetables). Please refer the notes for the vegetables choice. This is one of the main Pongal Recipes.
Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have pongal kootu veg biryani using 28 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani:
- Prepare 1 tbsp tamarind pulp
- Prepare 1/2 cup toor dal
- Take 1 chopped potato
- Prepare 1 chopped carrot
- Take 1/2 cup chopped broad beans
- Get 1/2 cup chopped French beans
- Take 1 chopped sweet potato
- Get 100 grams pumpkin chopped
- Take 1 chopped ash gourd
- Take 2-4 dry red chillies
- Prepare 1 tbsp chana dal
- Get 2 tbsp coriander seeds
- Prepare 1/2 cup grated coconut
- Get 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
- Get 2 tbsp oil
- Make ready 1 tsp mustard seeds
- Take 1 pinch asafoetida
- Get 2 cups Basmati Rice
- Make ready 5-6 leaves curry
- Make ready 1 stick cinnamon
- Take 2 dried bay leaves
- Make ready 1 tsp pepper corns
- Get 3-4 cloves
- Take 1 star anise
- Prepare 1 maze flower
- Get to taste Salt
- Make ready 1/2 cup milk
- Get 3-4 string strands of saffron
It is made with local vegetables that are in Although you can enjoy this Pongal Kootu immediately after preparation, it gets better and better as it cools down, as the veggies soak up the. This Kootu is mostly prepared on festival days'. This Pongal Kootu is a tongue-tickling mixed vegetable curry made during Makar Sankaranthi or Pongal in South India. Ven pongal recipe or video of khara pongal - a South Indian comfort food often made as a naivedyam to GODS during varalakshmi puja & navratri.
Steps to make Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani:
- Tie cinnamon stick, dried bay leaves, pepper corns, cloves, star anise, maze flower in a small piece of muslin cloth and keep aside
- Wash rice and cook them with double water, muslin potli of spices and salt to taste
- In a pressure cooker, cook washed toor dal and mash it well
- In another pan put all the chopped veggies and cover them with little water and cook covered till soft
- In a pan heat 1 tsp of oil and add coriander seeds, chana dal, fenugreek seeds and 2 dry chillies and fry these till the dal becomes little golden in colour
- The add grated coconut and roast it till the coconut is golden in colour, cool it a bit and grind to a fine paste with help of little water
- In the vegetables pot add tamrind pulp, cooked toor dal, ground masala paste and salt to taste and mix well then cook for 4-5 minutes
- Cook till most of the water is absorbed as we don’t want it to be much liquid for biryani.
- Heat remaining oil and add red chillies, asafetida, mustard seeds and curry leaves and let them crackle. Now put this tempering in prepared Kootu
- And finally layer the biryani in a microwave safe pot, one layer rice then one layer of Kootu and repeat it till your preference
- Mix saffron with warm milk and pour it over the final layer of rice, close the lid of the pot and microwave for a minute
Ven pongal recipe with stovetop & Instant pot instructions. Pongal is a popular South Indian food prepared with rice & moong dal, either to a sweet. Pongal Kootu / Kadamba kootu is one of the important festival sambar. Pongal kootu is not the traditional one which we make at home. And i made it today for pongal and enjoyed it with raw rice pongal.
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