Ingredients

• 4 cups- uncooked basmati rice
• 1.5 cups - chopped vegetables (potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, peas and beans)
• 1- chopped onion (long cut)
• 1 chopped tomato (cubes)
• 1- bunch coriander
• 5 cloves -garlic
• 1.5 inch piece - ginger
• 5 -6 -green chillies or per your taste
• 1 tsp -garam masala
• 2 stalks - curry leaves
• 2- bay leaves
• 1.5 tsp-cumin seeds
• 2 tbsp. -oil/butter/ghee
• 9 cups- water or more if required to cook rice and vegetables.

How to Make Perky Vegetable Biryani

• Grind to paste:
• The coriander, ginger, garlic and green chillies.
• Heat oil, add cumin seeds and bay leaf.
• When the cumin seeds start sizzling, add curry leaves, garam masala and chopped onions. Fry until the onions are golden brown.
• Then add the ground paste. Mix well.
• Fry until the raw smell goes. Add all vegetables except tomatoes.
• Cook for 5-7 mins, so that the vegetables absorb the ground paste.
• Then add rice and fry well. Transfer this into the electric rice-cooker dish, add water and salt as required.
• Once the biryani is half done, add the chopped tomatoes and mix well.
• Serve hot with chilled raitha.