POTATO DUM BIRYANI

INGREDIENTS

1. Potato                          1 big
2. Biryani rice                  1 1/2 cups
3. Onion                           1
4. Tomato                         2
5. Green chilies                5
6. Chilly powder              2 tsp
7. Curd                             1 cup
8. Mint leaves                   handful
9. Coriander leaves          handful
10. Salt                               3 tsp
11. Water                           2 cups
12. Oil                               1/2 cup
13. Ghee                            1/2

FOR GRINDING--1

1. Cashewnut                  15
2. Milk                             1 cup

FOR GRINDING--2

1. Ginger                         1/2"
2. Garlic                          10

METHOD:-

• Wash rice and soak for 20 minutes. Cut potato to 2" pieces.
• Slice onion, cut tomatoes, chop coriander, and mint leaves.
• Grind both separately to a smooth paste.
• Heat oil and ghee in a cooker pan, saute onion till light brown and crisp.
• Add ginger-garlic paste, and fry, add tomato, potato.
• Mix and close the lid and cook for 5 minutes, until tomato mashed.
• Add 1 1/2 tsp salt, cashew paste, curd, close the lid, and cook for 5 minutes on low heat.
• Meanwhile in another vessel add 3 cups of water, 1 1/2tsp salt, and cook on low flame.
• Mix rice to the gravy and sprinkle coriander, mint leaves.
• Close the lid, put on weight for dum, on a low flame for 5 minutes.
• Keep it in dum for 5 minutes, Serve with onion raitha.