Tsk tsk Viswa you still don't give measurements of ingredients... It is a "From Mars" recipe. : ) j/k... Will try this one. So far not much success with vegetable rice recipe except mushroom pulao.
Gutti Vankaya - Stuffed Brinjal Andhra style stuffed brinjal. I roast the spices and make powder ahead, and have frozen onion/tomato gravy, so it takes about 5 mins to close IP lid. Make this powder and store in fridge. Can last upto 3-4 weeks, and can be used 3-4 times. Roast, cool & grind: Peanuts - 3 tbsp Coriander/Dhanya - 4 tbsp Jeera/ cumin - 1 tbsp Khush khush/poppy seeds - 1.5 tsp Till/Sesame seeds 1tbsp Methi/fenugreek ½ tsp Dry coconut - 4 tbsp Karyapak - 15-20 leaves Chana daal - 1.5 tbsp Black pepper - 1 tsp Whole garam masala of your choice - cloves, cardamom, bay leaf. Slit 15 small brinjals. Leave stalk part whole. IP in saute mode. Oil → mustard, cumin, whole red chillies onion/tomato/ginger-garlic gravy (about 10 ounces. I use frozen) This is the part I like: Add the onion/tomato/gg frozen cubes, slit brinjals, 2 gr. Chillies, turmeric, salt, some dhanya powder, 1/3 cup thick tamarind water, red chilli powder, 3 tbsp of roasted masala powder. Stir 2 mins. Add ¾ cup water. Cancel saute. Pressure cook 2 mins high. NPR. Open, dish is ready to serve. If roasted masala and onion/tomato gravy are made in advance, this takes about 5-7 mins of standing by the IP. Without premade onion/tomato gravy: Add chopped onion, saute. Add chopped tomato after brinjals. ========== This recipe is useful if masala and onion/tomato gravy are made ahead. And if you are not too technical about how can it be called stuffed brinjal if the masala is not stuffed into brinjal. : ) If it tastes like brinjal, looks like brinjal, smells like brinjal, it is gutti vankaya. Also helps if you don't know how gutti vankaya is actually supposed to taste. : )
Vegetable & Mint Rice Ingredients 1) Chopped carrots (very small) 2) Chopped Tomatoes (Very small) 3) sliced Onions 4) Chopped Mint leaves 5) Chopped Cilantro leaves 6) Chopped ginger (very small) 7) Chopped Capsicum (very small) 8) Basmati Rice 9) Chilli powder to the taste 10) Salt to the taste 11) Cashews 12) Oil 13) Mustard seeds 14) Asefodida Making 1) Put Instant pot in Sauty mode 2) Pour oil and let it heat 3) Drop Mustard seeds and allow it to split 4) Add cashews and keep mixing it until it becomes brown 5) Add ginger now and let it roast for a couple of minutes 6) Add onion slices and keep roasting it for a couple of minutes 6) Add Tomato slices, Cilantro and Mint leaves 7) After a few minutes, add Capsicum and Carrot pieces to it 8) After 2 minutes, add Chilli powder, salt and Asefodida 9) Stir it for good 2-3 minutes 10) Add one cup of Basmati Rice and two cups of water 11) Stir it well for at least minute 12) Press cancel and set it for manual cooking 13) Set it on high pressure for 17 minutes Your tasty Vegetable Mint Rice is ready to serve if you open 10 minutes after it made noise of completion of cooking. After opening it stir it one more time as vegetables will be on top and we need to mix it with rice well. Note: Hungry man cooking on his own in the absence of his wife. Please excuse me if any instruction here is not up to the mark.
Instruction is up to the mark, but, "after it made noise of completion of cooking" is so like an instruction from a hungry man. : ) Or from a wife directing him remotely. : )
And also when he updates with recipes and cooking report a day before Mrs. V returns. : ) Viswa for a long time I used to think you have to be too good to be true. Until I learnt you are true and you are good. : )
@Gauri03, Thank you for reminding me. I missed the most important part of posting the image. @Rihana, Mrs. V is not returning until April 21st and I am leaving for India myself on 18th. Here is the image:
Instruction is good because of your earlier comments about the process. I do my work in the office room and keep the door open to listen to the IP. I haven't told my wife as yet about today's recipe as it is too late now. Moreover, she is going to be jealous because my son ate today's recipe at home. Note: Even if I tell her, she is going to lecture me how to clean the IP and keep it back where she kept it before she left for India.
By now you have crafted enough delicious rice variations to write a cookbook on IP rice recipes. If you write one I will buy it for Mr G for my India trips. : ) Safe travels! Enjoy your trip.