How to Love Perfect Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani

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How to Love Perfect Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani. As pongal festival is nearing i wanted to post a traditional recipe which we make both for Pongal festival and Thiruvadirai. A little bit of all these veggies make a huge quantity. Pongal festival itself is a harvest festival, to show gratitude to the Mother Nature to help us harvest nicely with enough monsoon.

Here is the link for millet Venn pongal from my archives!

One of the best recipes given by RK sir !

You can find the link here.

You can have Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani using 28 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani

It’s 1 tbsp of tamarind pulp.
It’s 1/2 cup of toor dal.
Prepare 1 of chopped potato.
It’s 1 of chopped carrot.
You need 1/2 cup of chopped broad beans.
It’s 1/2 cup of chopped French beans.
You need 1 of chopped sweet potato.
Prepare 100 grams of pumpkin chopped.
It’s 1 of chopped ash gourd.
You need 2-4 of dry red chillies.
You need 1 tbsp of chana dal.
It’s 2 tbsp of coriander seeds.
It’s 1/2 cup of grated coconut.
It’s 1/2 tsp of fenugreek seeds.
It’s 2 tbsp of oil.
You need 1 tsp of mustard seeds.
Prepare 1 pinch of asafoetida.
It’s 2 cups of Basmati Rice.
You need 5-6 leaves of curry.
It’s 1 stick of cinnamon.
Prepare 2 of dried bay leaves.
It’s 1 tsp of pepper corns.
It’s 3-4 of cloves.
It’s 1 of star anise.
Prepare 1 of maze flower.
Prepare to taste of Salt.
Prepare 1/2 cup of milk.
You need 3-4 string of strands of saffron.

Mixed vegetable kootu is very similar to Avial and pongal kootu.

Its a South Indian style side dish for rice.

Usually my mom makes avial(her signature recipe) for sambar sadam.

After marriage, I started loving my mil's mixed veg kootu which she makes for vatha kuzhambu.

Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani step by step

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.

Both are very similar in procedure with minor differences.

Though its simple and easy to make, it tastes perfect for pongal and even idli dosas.

And before going to the recipe, I have an exciting news to share.

My recipes have been published as a supplementary book in the popular Kungumam THOZHI tamil magazine. ven pongal recipe with step by step pics. ven pongal is a delicious south indian breakfast made with rice & yellow moong lentils. pongal is laced with cumin, asafoetida and black pepper. not to forget the lovely aroma of ghee, which is used for tempering these spices.

Thalapakattu Chicken Biryani Recipe is a very famous style of biryani from Dindigul region in the state of Tamil Nadu.