Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani

Steps Making Recipes Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani using 28 ingredients and 11 steps

Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani - This kootu along with thogayal, appalam/vadam and rice makes a filling meal. Pongal Kulambu Recipe-Mixed Vegetable Kulambu -Pongal Sambar(Kuzhambu) in Tamil This video takes you through the process of preparing pongal Kulambu. This kootu is very flavourful with all our naatu kaigaris (country vegetables). Please refer the notes for the vegetables choice. This is one of the main Pongal Recipes.

It is made with local vegetables that are in Although you can enjoy this Pongal Kootu immediately after preparation, it gets better and better as it cools down, as the veggies soak up the.

Ven pongal recipe or video of khara pongal - a South Indian comfort food often made as a naivedyam to GODS during varalakshmi puja & navratri.

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

Ingredients cook Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani

1. You need 1 tbsp tamarind pulp.
2. It's 1/2 cup toor dal.
3. You need 1 chopped potato.
4. You need 1 chopped carrot.
5. It's 1/2 cup chopped broad beans.
6. You need 1/2 cup chopped French beans.
7. You need 1 chopped sweet potato.
8. Prepare 100 grams pumpkin chopped.
9. You need 1 chopped ash gourd.
10. You need 2-4 dry red chillies.
11. You need 1 tbsp chana dal.
12. Prepare 2 tbsp coriander seeds.
13. You need 1/2 cup grated coconut.
14. It's 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds.
15. You need 2 tbsp oil.
16. Prepare 1 tsp mustard seeds.
17. Prepare 1 pinch asafoetida.
18. Prepare 2 cups Basmati Rice.
19. Prepare 5-6 leaves curry.
20. It's 1 stick cinnamon.
21. Prepare 2 dried bay leaves.
22. Prepare 1 tsp pepper corns.
23. You need 3-4 cloves.
24. Prepare 1 star anise.
25. You need 1 maze flower.
26. You need to taste Salt.
27. Prepare 1/2 cup milk.
28. You need 3-4 string strands of saffron.

Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani instructions

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.

Pongal Kootu Veg Biryani - 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. This Kootu is mostly prepared on festival days'. This Pongal Kootu is a tongue-tickling mixed vegetable curry made during Makar Sankaranthi or Pongal in South India. Pongal festival itself is a harvest festival, to show gratitude to the Mother Nature to help us harvest nicely with enough monsoon. So the natural vegetables harvested like Potato. Thank you and good luck