Vegetable Teheri - Instantpot meal
Teheri is a delicious vegetable base aromatic rice dish. It's aromatic, filled with varied masala flavors and lots of vegetables. this vegetarian rice recipe is a must try.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- ginger garlic grated - 1 tbs
- mint 2 tbs chopped
- Sliced Onions - 2 medium
- 1/4 cup yogurt
- Veggies of your choice -
- Carrots
- Beans
- Peas
- Cauliflower
- Potatoes
- 1/2 Tomato sliced
- Basmati Rice - 2cips
- water as needed.
Tempering
- Sunff or Jeera - 2 tsp
- green cardamom - 4nos
- Cinnamon sticks | pattai - 1 long
- Cloves |krambu - 5-7
- bayleaf - 2 nos
- 3 tbs oil or Ghee
Masala Powders
- Turmeric 1 tsp
- cumin-coriander powder 1 tbs
- Biryani masala powder 1 tbs
- garama masala powder 1 tbs
- salt to taste
garnish
- Chopped mint
- Chopped coriander
- Sliced capsicum
Instructions
- Turn your instant pot to saute mode and wait for the display to turn to HOT.
- Now heat 3 tbs oil or butter, once hot add in the dry spice -jeera, cardamom, cinnamon and bayleaf
- Once it starts to splatter add in the sliced onion followed by the grated ginger garlic.
- As the onion turns nice ad brown add the sliced veggies and saute well. I like to cut my veggies into long slices to be consistent with the log grain basamati rice
- Now add the turmeric, cumin-coriander powder, biryani powder and salt. Cook veggies halfway. Add the chopped mint leaves for more flavor.
- Then add the 1/2 tomato and 1/4 cup yogurt and mix well. Let the mixture cook for a bit and then add in the basmathi rice.
- At this point add water for rice and also add some garam masala. Test for salt and add more if needed now.
- Pressure cook the biryani in Instant pot for about 8 min in pressure mode. let it natural release and serve hot with Raita or some gravy of your choice.