How to Autumn Perfect Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani

How to Autumn 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.

Put this tempering over the prepared vegetable kootu Pongal kootu is not the traditional one which we make at home.

In my place on pongal we make normal raw rice pongal, sweet sarkarai pongal, sambar, papadum and coconut thogayal.

But i have been seeing this curry in many blog, so i decided to give it a try.

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

Ingredients of Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani

1. It’s of tamarind pulp.

2. You need of toor dal.

3. It’s of chopped potato.

4. Prepare of chopped carrot.

5. You need of chopped broad beans.

6. It’s of chopped French beans.

7. Prepare of chopped sweet potato.

8. You need of pumpkin chopped.

9. Prepare of chopped ash gourd.

10. You need of dry red chillies.

11. Prepare of chana dal.

12. It’s of coriander seeds.

13. It’s of grated coconut.

14. You need of fenugreek seeds.

15. You need of oil.

16. It’s of mustard seeds.

17. Prepare of asafoetida.

18. It’s of Basmati Rice.

19. You need of curry.

20. It’s of cinnamon.

21. Prepare of dried bay leaves.

22. It’s of pepper corns.

23. Prepare of cloves.

24. It’s of star anise.

25. It’s of maze flower.

26. Prepare of Salt.

27. It’s of milk.

28. You need of strands of saffron.

And i made it today for pongal and enjoyed it with raw rice pongal.

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.

Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani step by step

1. Tie cinnamon stick, dried bay leaves, pepper corns, cloves, star anise, maze flower in a small piece of muslin cloth and keep aside.

2. Wash rice and cook them with double water, muslin potli of spices and salt to taste.

3. In a pressure cooker, cook washed toor dal and mash it well.

4. In another pan put all the chopped veggies and cover them with little water and cook covered till soft.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Cook till most of the water is absorbed as we don’t want it to be much liquid for biryani..

9. Heat remaining oil and add red chillies, asafetida, mustard seeds and curry leaves and let them crackle. Now put this tempering in prepared Kootu.

10. And finally layer the biryani in a microwave safe pot, one layer rice then one layer of Kootu and repeat it till your preference.

11. 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.

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.

Both are very similar in procedure with minor differences.