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Mushroom biryani recipe !! Yes! You read it right. I never thought I would post mushroom recipes in myspace ever. Because it took so much time f or me to make up my mind to buy and try cooking that. Then f ewtried it f lopped very much. Poor people who tasted my preparations. I don’t even know how to handlethis veggie. Since my f amily also hate mushrooms, I can never try it out that of ten. So one daysuddenly I asked Sharmi to do a guest post f or Raks kitchen and she said OK the very next second Iasked. Again suddenly it struck in my mind to ask a mushroom recipe to her, so that I can have at least onerecipe here with mushrooms. I suggested her to make mushroom biryani and she said deal f or it. Actually I asked her to do this laterwhen ever she is f ree, relaxed and not to take it as a burden. But she made the post ready and sent me by

mail within 2 weeks! I was so thrilled to see the beautif ul pictures she showed and secretly admired herenthusiasm, as always .Thank you f or the post Sharmi . Yes, I always wonder and appreciate her spirit towards blogging at Sharmis Passions, me being incontrast to her. Even af ter 5 years of blogging, I always make my post ready only the bef ore day orsame day when I am going to post it in blog. In f act, I have to admit that she have changed myattitude towards blogging, Mostly I get interest just by seeing her interest and dedication. Alsoshe has helped me a lot in improving my photography, sometimes in codes, in presentation of myposts. Not only in blogging, more than that, she is one of those f riends to whom I share everythingcomf ortably. I can write pages, but here is her post!

I am really very happy to write a guest post f or one of the inspiring bloggers Raji of Raks Kitchen. Sheis one of the strong supporters f or my space, a dear f riend who gives me f eedback every now and then,puts even the crit icisms in the best possible way that makes me do even better. She is my all t imeinspiration in cooking!!

When she asked me to do a guest post with a mushroom recipe, I was surprised at the same time veryhappy so readily accepted it. I lef t the dish choice to her but should admit I was keeping my f ingers crossedthat any recipe other than dosa should be her choice and do you know why?! yes I struggle to click picturesof dosa and the f eeling totally puts me down. I took a deep breath only af ter she asked f or biryani :)

I made f ew adjustments to the veg biryani I make and came up with this recipe....should say it turned outgreat and had a thumps up f rom hubby. If anyone says I cook the perf ect grains separated rice I owe all theappreciations to Raji as she gave me the exact measurements since then I am f ollowing it to the dot and itcomes out perf ect every time. Now lets get on to the mushroom biryani recipe...

Ingredients

Mushroom Biriyani Recipe

Basmati Rice - 1 and 1/4 cups

Cleaned Button mushrooms - 3/4 cup chopped

Onion - 1 big chopped lengthwise

Tomato puree - f rom 2 medium sized tomato

Thick Curd - 2 tbsp

Ginger-Garlic paste - 2.5 tsp

Garam Masala powder - 1.5 tsp

Red Chilli powder - 1/4 tsp

Oil - 1 tsp

Ghee - 1/2 tbsp

Water - 2 cups

Salt - to taste

To grind to a paste:

Coriander leaves - 4 tbsp

Mint leaves - 3 tbsp

Green Chillies - 1

Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp

To temper:

Cloves -2

Cardamom -1

Cinnamon - 1/4 inch piece

Bayleaf -1

Method

1.Grind the ingredients under 'to grind' with litt le water to a f ine paste. Set aside.Soak basmati rice f oratleast 15mins , set aside. Heat oil+ghee in a pressure cooker and add the items under 'to temper' then addginger garlic paste and saute f or a minute.

2.Then add onion and saute till its golden brown. Then add tomato puree saute till raw smell leaves, thenadd coriander mint paste and saute till raw smell leaves.

3.Then add red chilli powder, garam masala powder, required salt and saute till the masalas is well blended.Then add mushroom and saute f or 2mins until water leaves and it starts sof tening. Then add curd.

4.Once the masala is nicely blended with the mushrooms , add basmati rice - give a quick stir.

5.Then add required water and pressure cook f or 3 whistles(Af ter the f irst whistle lower the f lame). Oncepressure releases, f luf f the rice with a f ork caref ully without breaking the rice.

Serve hot with onion raita - the best combination.

My Notes

If you like the lemon flavour, squeeze lemon juice once the biryani is done.

You can also use 1/2 cup of coconut milk which gives a nice flavour but adjust water level accordingly .

I usually use 1:1and 1/2 cups of water ratio so have given the measures accordingly. But you can usethe measurement according to the variety of basmati rice. I use India Gate Basmati rice.

Enjoy it hot with onion raita.

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