basmati rice cooking/Easy biryani

wash 1 cup rice add 2 cup water, salt, 1/4 tsp turmeric, 1/2 cup matar, 1 tsp til oil, 1 tomato chopped, green chilly 4 chopped, boil it, lower flame for 5 minutes or till the water absorbed and little mushy, then switch off flame. wait for 15-30 minutes and give a stir, again heat for 2-3 minutes and switch off. after 30 minutes open and stir and serve.

for small amounts of raw rice this is good to boil water and rice, it has the effect of soaking rice in warm water, so cook well.
For more than 1 kg rice boil water and add rice
old basmati rices are good for perfect grains
new basmati rices are mushy on cooking so soak in water and use less water
Use oil,lemon is good
adding turmeric gives beautiful yellow color to rice
Adding green pea, green chilly, tomato give color and taste to the rice
it is like a biryani

how to cook pulav rice/veg biryani in a pressure cooker or a pot

I measured 2.5 cups of  basmati small broken rice .you can use anykind of rice means medium broken rice or long basmati rice
water 5 cups
I chopped little ginger, fresh turmeric, green chilly, 1 onion
little amarapayar/beans, carrot
and taken one tea cup of deshelled green peas/ matar
and chopped red capsicum
1 lemon juice, my lemon is big and have got alot of juice from 1/2 of lemon
take leaves of curry leaves of 2-3 stems
Heat pressure cooker / or a pot you like add 3 tb/30 ml oil to it, add some mustard, jeera after that add onion slices saute it add ginger, green chilly, turmeric saute with little salt, add curry leaves,  masala (crush 2 cloves, 2 elaichi, 5 black pepper)  1/4 tsp chilly powder, vegetables one by one,
I had added green peas, amarapayar, carrot, capsicum, saute for 2 minutes, add rice salt, water, lemon juice of 1 lemon and boil well. cover the pot and cook for 10 minutes in slow flame. and switch off the flame. After 10 minutes, mix the rice with a flat laddle, carefully. cover and again reheat the pot for 2 -3 minutes in high flame. when touching the sides of the pot it will be very hot.  switch off the flame. and wait for 20- 30 minutes and mix the rice and serve.
Serve the rice with pickle, pappad, raita or curd.

Brown basmati rice pulav

3 cup/600 gm brown rice
 til oil 3 tbsp
mustard 1/2 tsp
jeera 1/2 tsp

ginger 1/2 inch
fresh turmeric 1/2 inch
garlic 5 cloves
green chilly 5
onion 1
curry leaf 2 stem
clove 3
elaichi 2
black pepper 6
turmeric powder 1/4 tsp ( if not adding fresh turmeric)
chilly powder 1/4 tsp
salt 2 tsp(1/2 stp rocksalt/ sedha namak, 1.5 tsp table salt)
vegetables
1 carrot,
1 hand ful green pea,
green beans /amara payar 1 hand pick/10
red capsicum 2
pudina leaves 3 stems
water 6 cups

Soak rice and wait for washing and cutting veg and prepare masalas for cooking and start cooking
this time is needed for soaking rice , it will be 15 to 30 minutes

chop vegetables and others
take leaves of pudina and curry leaves
crush elaichi, clove , black pepper
heat a pressure cooker add oil, mustard, jeera, ginger, garlic, green chilly, fresh turmeric, onion and saute well add curry leaves, pudina leaves clove , elaichi,black pepper, turmeric powder, chilly powder salt vegetables  and saute for 3 miutes and add soaked rice and water boil, cover cooker lid with whistle, wait for 10 minutes in high flame after that switch off flame, and wait for 20 minutes for cooling, after that open the lid and mix the rice carefully
It has a yellow color rice with green and red vegetable colors and very beautiful to see
and also very tasty.
serve with achar/chutny powder, pappad, fresh/dryfish fry


vegetable s have different colors adding color to the pulav

Use any oils accoding to season
Til, mustard, soyabean oils good for winter / rainy season
coconut/palm oils good for hot summer season
add 1/4 cup or 2tb curd /1lemon juice to this at cooking time for summer season, adding this to winter rainy season increase cold

pressure cooker parboiled yellow rice

Wash and Soak 1 cup boiled rice in water for 30 minutes
heat til oil/ghee 2tb,in a pressure cooker  add jeera 1/4tsp, mustard1/4tsp, onion1, green chilly3, ginger saute add mint leaves of 2 stem, curry leaves of 2 stem, add  crushed clove1 , elaichi 1, black pepper 4, 1/8 tsp tumeric, black salt 1/4 tsp, salt 1/4 tsp,1/8tsp chilli flakes and saute, add rice,  water 2  1/4 cups,lemon juice 2tsp,pressure cook to 3 whistle, wait for 3 minutes then switch off flame. After 15 minutes open the cooker and serve.
This is a tasty and beautiful rice ,serve with achar/pickle, papad, curd, raita
If rice is very thick adjust water to 2 1/2 cup