ALOO BIRYANI

Ingredients you R gonna need:

Mint-2 cups or 4 handfuls
Rice-3 cups uncooked – cook it and keep it aside
Gold potatoes-3 medium size
Chillies-10 to 12
Ginger-garlic paste – 2 tbsp ------ definitely home-made I would say
Oil – 4 tbsp
Bread croutons(optional) – 2 pieces of bread------- make 9 cubes from each piece then fry the pieces in 1 to 2 tbsp oil until golden brown on both the sides
Garam masala – 1/2 tsp ------ I use homemade not the packaged one for this recipe

Preparing Garam masala – 2 tbsp: cloves
2 tbsp:cinnamon
2 tbsp: Sajeera
In a pan roast all the above in the order of cinnamon, cloves and lastly sajeera, grind everything to a fine powder. Save it in a tight container.

Preparing Biryani:

Peel potatoes and cut into 2 inch cubes, wash and drain the water microwave for 3 mins add ½ cup water and cook for 2 more mins. Drain the remaining water
Grind half the mint i.e 1 cup and finely chop the other 1 cup.
Slit the green chillies vertically.
In a big kadai style pan add oil, 1tsp jeera and 2 tbsp Ginger-garlic paste stir it and allow it to fry for a min or so… now add boiled potatoes and green chillies then the grinded and finely chopped mint, allow everything to cook for 4-5 mins. Then add the cooked rice, ½ tsp masala powder, salt to taste, turmeric powder.
Finally add the toasted bread when biryani is hot, so the bread pieces become soft.

Prep time: If you have saved ginger-garlic paste and garam masala from last time, biryani will be ready in less than 30 mins.