Anjappar Biryani Recipe In Rice Cooker-Sunday Lunch Recipes Series-14

• Basmati rice – 1 cup ( India Gate)
• Potato – 3 nos
• Green peas – a fistful
• Green chillies – 2 nos
• Red chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
• Salt – as needed
• Water – 2 cups

To roast rice

• Ghee – 2 tsp

To saute

• Cooking oil – 2 tbsp
• Ghee – 1 tbsp
• Cinnamon – 1 inch piece
• Cloves – 2 nos
• Cardamom – 1 no
• Biryani leaf – 1 no
• Big onion -1 no ( sliced)
• Tomato – 1 no

To grind (optional)

• Big onion – 1/2 no or Small onions – 8 nos
• Green chillies – 2 no
• Ginger – 1 inch piece
• Garlic – 5 cloves
• Fennel seeds – 1/4 tsp

• Wash and soak the basmati rice for 20 minutes.In the mean time,peel the potatoes and chop into cubes.Slices the onions,cut the tomatoes into small pieces.Slit the green chillies.Grind the ingredients given under”to grind” to a smooth paste adding enough water.(If u don’t want to grind them add 1.5 tsp of g&g paste along with crushed fennel seeds in oil while sauting onions and whole spices)

• Now drain all the water in soaked rice.Heat ghee in a kadai and roast the rice for 2 minutes without breaking them.

• Now heat the rice cooker in cooking mode and add oil + ghee in the center of serrated plate.Add cinnamon,cloves,cardamom and biryani leaf.Saute for a second.Now add the sliced onions and slitted green chillies.Saute till transparent.Now add the ground paste and saute until raw smell goes off.Add red chilli powder and mix well.The rice cooker mode may switched into warm mode.No problem,just keep sauting in the heat of plate.Now add the tomatoes and salt.Mix until tomato turns pulpy.Turn the rice cooker to cooking mode and add water.

• Add finely chopped mint+coriander leaves in water.When the water comes to a boil,add rice.Cook it till done.
  
  Enjoy with raita !

• You can make this biryani using pressure cooker too but change the quantity of water to 1.5 cups.
• Adjust the quantity of chillies based on your need.
• You should not add mint+coriander leaves while sauting.Add them only in the water before adding rice.
• Roasting rice helps to give firm and long grain rice.