Black Kondakadalai / Channa Biryani Recipe :

Channa / Kondakadalai biryani is nutritious and a healthy food.....

Ingredients:

1. Black channa - 2 cups
2. Potato - 3 Optional 
3. Onion - 2 Sliced
4. Tomato - 2 Chopped
5. Biryani masala - 2 tsp
6. Chilli powder - 1 tsp
7. Bay leaf - 2
8. Oil - 3tsp
9. Ghee - 1tsp
10. Salt to taste

To Grind:

1. Green chilly - 3 to 5
2. Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup
3. Mint leaves - 1/2 cup
4. Ginger - 1 small pc
5. Garlic - 3 cloves Or Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp
6. In a blender grind everything & make a coarse paste

Rice Measurement :

1. Normal Rice - 1 cup                                                                                                                 Soak the rice for 15 - 20 min add 1 1/2 cup f water for 1 cup of Rice.

     2. Seeraga Samba Rice - 1 cup

         Soak the rice for 5 min , add 1 3/4 cup of water for 1 cup of rice.

   

     3. Basmati Rice - 1 cup

         Soak the rice for 15 min, add 1.5 cups of water for 1 cup of rice.

Method:

1. Soak the channa overnight. boil with little water in next day & drain it.
2. Heat oil & ghee in pressure cooker
3. Add bay leaf & onion saute it well
4. Then add tomatoes fry it turns mushy & add biryani masala powder
5. Then add the grind paste saute it well till oil separates
6. Now add the potato & boiled channa mix it well
7. Now add 1 1/2cup water for 1 cup rice
8. Then add rice and salt then mix it well
9. Cover the pressure cooker and cook it for 2 whistle

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