Layered Soya Curry Biryani

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Layered Soya Curry Biryani- Basmati rice cooked with vegetables and layered with a delicious curry made with soya chunks, poppy seeds, and few more flavorful ingredients.

A complete one-pot meal to be enjoyed either in lunch or dinner or even you can carry out for a picnic. My kids call this as Picnic biryani as we really don’t need anything another side dish to enjoy this scrumptious meal.

In my earlier posts, I wrote that my entire family was here and we had a lot of fun. One weekend, we decided to go for a picnic in a nearby recreational park. Our plan was to spend the whole day there chatting, playing and eating.I made this Layered Soya Curry Biryani for the same and everyone loved it so much. The best part is, it is a one-pot meal and you don’t need anything along with this.

 

The recipe is divided into 3 parts
1.Preparing the vegetable rice
2.Preparing the Soya curry
3.Layering and baking them together.

Let us proceed with the recipe

Layered Soya Curry Biryani
Serves 6
Delicious Layered vegetable rice with Soya curry over it .
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Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
30 min
Total Time
45 min
Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
30 min
Total Time
45 min
Ingredients
  1. FOR THE RICE
  2. 1 cup boiled sweet corn kernels (makai ke dane)
  3. 3 cups cooked long grained rice (basmati)
  4. 1 tbsp ghee
  5. 1 inch cinnamon (dalchini)
  6. 5 cloves (laung / lavang)
  7. 1/2 cup chopped capsicum
  8. 1/2 cup boiled carrot cubes
  9. salt to taste
  10. FOR THE CURRY
  11. 1 cup SoyaNuggets
  12. 1 cup roughly chopped onions
  13. 6 garlic cloves
  14. 1 inch ginger piece
  15. 3 tsp coriander seeds
  16. 1 tsp cumin seeds
  17. 1 inch cinnamon
  18. 1 bay leaf
  19. 2-3 cloves
  20. 2 cardamoms
  21. 2 tsp poppy (khus-khus) seeds
  22. 3 whole dry kashmiri red chillies , broken into pieces
  23. 1/2 cup fresh Plain yogurt
  24. 2 tbsp oil
  25. ALSO WE WOULD NEED
  26. 2 tbsp ghee for greasing
  27. 2 tsp milk
  28. some mint leaves for garnish
Instructions
  1. FOR THE RICE
  2. Heat the ghee in a Kadhai or non stick pan and add the cinnamon and cloves and sauté on a medium flame for a few seconds.
  3. Add the capsicum and sauté on a medium flame for 1 to 2 minutes.
  4. Add the rice, corn, carrot and salt and water. Cover the pan with lid and cook the rice. turn off the flame when the rice is almost cooked.
  5. TO MAKE THE SOYA CURRY
  6. Soak the Soya nuggets in warm water for 15 minutes, Squeeze them and keep aside.
  7. In a blender , grind together onions, garlic, ginger, poppy seeds,cinnamon, coriander,cumin,cardamom and red chilies.
  8. Heat the ghee in a broad non-stick pan, and add the bay leaf.Now add the prepared paste and cook on a medium flame for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the soya nuggets and cook for 5 minutes.
  9. Add the yogurt , mix well and add 1/2 cup of water and cook on a medium flame for 2 minutes, while stirring occasionally. Keep aside.
  10. LAYERING THE RICE AND CURRY
  11. Grease a microwave safe baking bowl with ghee, put 1 portion of rice in it and spread it evenly using the back of a spoon.
  12. Put the prepared curry over it and spread it evenly.
  13. Finally add the remaining portion of rice over it and spread it evenly.
  14. Pour the milk over it, and microwave on for 8 minutes.
  15. Garnish with mint leaves and serve hot with Raita or chutney and enjoy.
Notes
  1. Make sure you don't overcook the rice other wise the Biryani will be soft and mushy.
  2. You can replace Soya nuggets with Paneer, if you want to make Paneer biryani.
  3. You can also add just the vegetables and make quick veg biryani using this recipe
  4. Make sure the soya nuggets are propery soaked and squeezed.
  5. You can replace mint with coriander leaves too for garnishing.
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