Ismaili Recipes - This blog contains our family recipes; mainly it is Ismaili (Khoja) cuisine, our family lived in Uganda for 3 generations so we have a marked East African(Swahili, Lugandi) Influence in our cooking AND in our language!! (Kutchi / Cutchi / Gujarati. In recent years with new additions to the family our cooking includes, English, Pakistani, Italian and Irish influences.
Saturday 3 February 2007
Mung (moong) Bean Biryani
Ingredients
1 cup mung beans, washed and soaked overnight
2-3 large onions, chopped fine
1/2 cup yougurt
3 cloves garlic; minced
2 inch ginger; grated
3-4 green chillies; minced
8 small potatoes, peeled
21/2 cups basamati rice; washed and soaked in water
6 large tomatoes; blanched, peeled and chopped
1 tblspn tomato puree
1 heaped tspn cumin seeds
3-4 cloves,
2 sticks cinamon
6-8 peppercorns
3 cardomom pods
1/2 tspn saffron
1 teaspn garam masala
for tarka
1 tspn cumin
for topping
1/2 tspn saffron soaked in some warm water
Method
1. Boil the moong beans.
2. Fry the potatoes in hot oil , so that they are golden brown (par cooked)
3. Heat some oil in a large pan, fry the whole masala; cumin, cloves, cinnamon, peppercorns, and cardomom, fry until they pop and splutter, add the onions
2. Fry the onions until brown
Add the tomatoes, garlic, ginger, chilli and tomato puree, fry for 5-8 minutes
Add the yougurt and the saffron, cook for a further 2 minutes
Add the mung beans with a 1 cup of the water they were boiled in
Add the potaotes and cook for 5-6 minutes
Meanwhile parboil the rice in 5 cups of water for 10 minutes, drain and add half the rice to a large oven proof container.
Add the moong/potato/tomato mixture
Top with the other half of the rice
Fry the cumin in the oil
Pour the oil and cumin mixture on the rice
Pour the saffron and water mixture on the rice
Labels:
Indian,
Ismaili,
Khoja,
Rice,
Vegetarian
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3 comments:
love the set up/display and pictures. great meal!
Thanks Tahera
Hi. Thanks for this recipe. I just made it, but there was no addition of the garam masala powder in the method, but included in ingredients. Plus no salt whatsoever? Please can you advise if recipe can be updated. Thx Suh
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