Vegetable Dum Biriyani

Ingredients
Basmathi Rice - 1 cup (250 ml cup)
Water - 1 cup
Onion - 2
Tomato - 2
Green  chilly - 2
Home made chilly powder - 1 tblsp
Ginger garlic paste - 2 tblsp
Mint leaves - fist full
Coriander leaves - fist full
Carrot - 1
Potato - 1
Peas - 1/2 cup
Oil - 3 tblsp
Bay leaf - 1
Cloves - 2
Pattai  - 1 inch piece
Elachi - 1
Curd - 3 tblsp
Salt


Preparation
1. Cut onion and tomato to thin slices length wise.Slit green chilly. Finely chop mint and coriander leaves. Cut carrot and potato to cubes. Place potato in water or cut just before adding to biriyani.
2. Soak rice in water for 30 min and pressure cook for 1 whistle with 1 cup of water and salt. Add salt for rice alone.
3. Soak peas in water for overnight. Remove water and then pressure cook for 3 whistle.
4. Heat oil in heavy bottom pan and temper with pattai, elachi, cloves and bay leaves. Add green chilly and onion. Fry onion until brown and then add ginger garlic paste. Fry until raw smell goes off. Add tomato and fry until mushy. Add mint and coriander leaves. Fry until leaves shrinks. Add chilly powder and curd. Mix well. Add peas, carrot and potato. Cook in slow flame for 10 min or until all blends well and oil separates.Add salt for gravy alone.
5. Remove half gravy and set aside. Spread half of the cooked basmathi rice over gravy in heavy bottom pan. Then spread the reserved gravy over rice. Again spread the remaining rice over gravy. Basically we are layering the gravy and rice in the pan.
6. Now place a fry pan on stove and fill half with water. Place your heavy bottom pan with layered rice and gravy on fry pan. Close the rice pan with plate and over it keep any vessel with hot water or hot content in it. I used the pressure pan I used to cook the basmathi rice. keep flame in low and cook for 30 min to 40 min. Switch off and keep it for 5 more min and then open. Mix well. Serve hot !

Note
1. Instead of pressure cook the basmathi rice you can also do boiling method. Boil water and then add rice and cook until 90% done. Add salt. Take out rice and then use for layering.
2. You can also add other veggies like beans, cauliflower etc.