Vegetable Brinji rice

Name: Vegetable Brinji rice
Total time: 2700 s
Yield: 4 peoples
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 2 cups seeraga samba rice; 11/2 cups fresh coconut milk; 11/2 cups water; 1 tbsp oil; 1 tbsp ghee; 1 tsp fennel seeds; 2 inch cinnamon sticks; 5 cloves; 4 green cardamom; 3 bay leaves; 2 sliced onion; 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste; 1 handful chopped mint leaves; 1 handful chopped coriander leaves; 2 tomatoes; 1/4 cup curd; 1 tbsp red chilli powder; 3 green chilies; 11/2 cups chopped vegetables; 1 tbsp rock salt; 5 bread slices

Muniswari.G @muniswari_0205

Chennai

#GT Brinji rice is a very popular rice variety in small hotels in Chennai. Brinji Rice gets its name from Biryani which in short is called Brinji. Another reason being bayleaf also called Brinji Elai in tamil which is brinji leaf is used in this recipe hence the name. Brinji Rice is made with seeraga samba rice along with mixed vegetables, whole spices, herbs, masala powders and coconut milk. Brinji Rice tastes great on its own but perfect to pair it up with onion raita.

Muniswari.G @muniswari_0205

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Ingredients

45 minutes

4 peoples

2 cupsseeraga samba rice
11/2 cupsfresh coconut milk
11/2 cupswater
1 tbspoil
1 tbspghee
1 tspfennel seeds
2 inchcinnamon sticks
5cloves
4green cardamom
3bay leaves
2sliced onion
1 tbspginger garlic paste
1 handfulchopped mint leaves
1 handfulchopped coriander leaves
2tomatoes
1/4 cupcurd
1 tbspred chilli powder
3green chilies
11/2 cupschopped vegetables
1 tbsprock salt
5bread slices

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Steps

45 minutes

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First, grind the coconut in a mixer and strain it to extract the coconut milk.
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Wash the rice well, add it to the electric rice cooker, mix coconut milk and water in it and soak it for half an hour.
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Pour ghee and oil in a pan, add cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaves, fennel seeds and fry them. Add onion and saute well. Add green chillies, mint and coriander leaves saute 2 minutes...
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Add ginger and garlic paste, saute well, add chili powder and tomatoes and saute well...
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Once the tomatoes are well cooked, add salt and yogurt to it and saute it... Now add the vegetables and saute it...
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Add a little water and cook the vegetables until half cooked...
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Add the cooked vegetables masala to the electric cooker, sprinkle some mint leaves and turn on the cooker.
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It will be ready in half an hour.. Finally, pour a little ghee into it...
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Cut the bread into four pieces, add 1 tablespoon of ghee to the pan, add the bread and fry.
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Add the fried bread to the brinji and mix and serve...
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Now ready to serve...