Dinesh Kumar is een ingenieur uit Kanpur (Noord-India, staat Uttar Pradesh), die sinds 2 jaar in Brussel verblijft voor zijn doctoraat-onderzoek. Hij heeft ook een aantal jaren in Bangalore (Zuid-India) en 1 jaar in Zuid-Korea gewoond.
over zijn Vegetable Biryani zegt hij:
"I always use this basic and
simple recipe to make various kind of dishes. I just learnt cooking from my
experiments: variation in spices and ingredients.
Here is
what I follow and cook awesome dishes. Its very simple, after 2-3 experiments
you can also cook nice and tasty food. "
Ingredients: Basmati rice, mixed vegetables, onion, tomato, garam
masala*, coriander powder, turmeric powder. * (garam masala is a mixure of indian spices you can find easily at nearest Indian grocery store.)
1. Cook rice nicely
2. Chop 2 onions
3. Heat the oil, add cumin seeds (1 tea spoon), or mustard seeds (half
spoon).
4. Fry nicely chopped onion until golden brown. Add salt according to
taste.
5. Add the finely chopped mixed vegetables and fry for 6-8 minutes.
6. Add garam masala powder 1 tea spoon.
7. Add chopped tomato and fry it for 2-3 minutes.
8. Add the cooked rice and stir well to combine
9. Heat it for 4-5 minutes. Add a tea spoon of lemon juice or ghee.
Enjoy your meal!!!!!
Variations: Keep doing different experiments to make something new:
- Instead of rice you can use boil noodles . It will become a new dish! Try vegetable noodles.
- You can use macaroni or pasta instead of rice.
- You can add boiled eggs also after step 5.
- You can make omelette and can add after step 6.
- You can add the ½ teaspoon ginger powder, garlic or black peperwith garam masala at step 6 to vary the taste.
Dinesh Kumar
