For the fourth day of month long Biryani and Pulao festival, I have a delicious biryani from Bihar. I listed out the recipes to try nearly 6 months back and I have been making one recipe at a time. Some recipes were so simple that I was just postponing the preparation. For Bihar, I finalised on a veg tehri. But I also made another tehri for another state, so didn’t want to repeat them. So I searched for biryani recipesBihar and landed on chicken boti biryani. Boti is supposed to be meat and there were chicken boti biryani, muttom boti biryani and malai boti biryani. The meat pieces were marinated in yogurt and used in the biryani. And cream is used along with yogurt in malai boti biryani recipe.
There were two types of preparations, one way was to layer the rice and chicken masala, and the other one is the much easier one pot meal version. As there are so many one pot meal recipes this month, I tried the layering method. Again I saw a few recipes which cooked the meat, and some which didn’t. I made the no cook version which was so much easier. The rice is 80% cooked and drained and set aside before layering. I have used potatoes and button mushrooms to make this a vegetarian version. You can also use soy chunks or paneer instead. I must say that this was one of the best recipes I tried for this BM. My daughter was so happy to taste it and was full of praises. Boti masala is used in the traditional recipes, but as I can’t source boti masala, I used garam masala instead ( one of the bloggers suggested this alternative) The fried onions and the nuts add so much of flavour to the biryani, so don’t skip them.
Ingredients:
Basmati Rice – 1 cup
Salt – to taste
Button Mushroom 3-4
Potato – 1 small
Onion – 1
Ginger Garlic Paste – 2 tbs
Salt to taste
Clove – 2
Cinnamon – 1 small
Bay leaf – 1
Green chilly Coriander Paste – 2 tbs
Yogurt / Curd – 1/2 cup
Oil – 2 tbs
Garam Masala – 1 tsp
Red chilly Powder – 1 tsp
Milk – 2 tbs
Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Fried onions – 1/2 cup
Roasted Almonds for garnish
Coriander Leaves for garnish
Procedure:
Wash and soak rice for 20 minutes.
Add enough water and cook until 80% done.
Drain and set aside.
In a bowl mix together yogurt, salt, green paste, ginger garlic paste, spices, red chilly powder, garam masala powder, onion, oil and cubed vegetables.
Marinate for two hours.
In a heavy bottom pan, spread half of the vegetable mix.
Layer half the rice on top and add some fried onions and coriander leaves.
Now repeat once more.
Mix together turmeric powder and milk and sprinkle the mixture on top of the rice.
Cover and cook on low flame for 15-20 minutes.
Garnish with more fried onions, almonds and coriander leaves and serve the biryani hot.
Recipes so far
Kaju Pulao from Andhra Pradesh
Kharzi Pulao from Arunachal Pradesh
Meetha Pulao from Assam
Bihari Veg Boti Biryani Recipe
Ingredients
- Basmati Rice - 1 cup
- Salt - to taste
- Button Mushroom - 3-4
- Potato - 1 small
- Onion - 1
- Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 tbs
- Salt - to taste
- Clove-2
- Cinnamon - 1 small
- Bay Leaf - 1
- Green chilly Coriander Paste - 2 tbs
- Yogurt / Curd - 1/2 cup
- Oil-2 tbs
- Garam Masala - 1 tsp
- Red Chilly Powder - 1 tsp
- Milk – 2 tbs
- Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
- Fried onions - 1/2 cup
- Roasted Almonds for garnish
- Coriander Leaves for garnish
Instructions
- Wash and soak rice for 20 minutes.
- Add enough water and cook until 80% done.Drain and set aside.
- In a bowl mix together yogurt, salt, green paste, ginger garlic paste, spices, red chilly powder, garam masala powder, onion, oil and cubed vegetables.
- Marinate for two hours.
- In a heavy bottom pan, spread half of the vegetable mix.
- Layer half the rice on top and add some fried onions and coriander leaves.
- Now repeat once more.
- Mix together turmeric powder and milk and sprinkle the mixture on top of the rice.
- Cover and cook on low flame for 15-20 minutes.
- Garnish with more fried onions, almonds and coriander leaves and serve the biryani hot.
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I thought you picked the malai version since you seem to be a dairy fan, going by your love of Bengali sweets. ☺The biryani looks wonderful with that coloful garnish.
The Biryani looks fantastic , love those fried onions and coriander garnish ! Mushrooms are a good substitute for most non veg dishes , wonderful pick and well presented .
The layered biryani looks outstanding Gayathri. Even I thought you would pick the Malai one. I am sure this one tasted yummy too.
The biryani looks fabulous Gayathri. Love your presentation. I wish I could grab some from the screen right now. Bookmarking!!
Biryani looks nice and colorful. Perfectly done
I really like that layering and the biryani looks so inviting with that garnish. I need to try this as well. Adding it to my bookmarks.
The biryani looks very colourful and flavourful! I love the layered biryani! Thank you for sharing!
Wow! the pictures look amazing with the garnish and the flavors must be awesome.
this is a great dish to have, Gayathri !! I am still experimenting with biryani varieties so will try to check if this can be made sans mushroom too !
Looks absolutely inviting.. Cant wait to try this out!!
This biryani looks so tasty and tempting .. love the whole bowl with garnishing..
That bowl of rice looks lip-smacking. Love the way you have garnished as well, very tempting and inviting.