Mushroom Biryani - Mushroom Biryani in Pressure Cooker - Easy Lunch Box Recipe

Mushroom Biryani is a wonderful rice prepared with onions, tomatoes, whole garam masala and the button mushrooms. Try to include mushrooms in your regular diet for twice or thrice in a week. Mushrooms contain so much nutritional benefit and they are also low in calories, fat-free and very low in sodium.

It is a very good food for kids, ladies and also for diabetes. Be it a biryani or kurma or any stir fry, try to add mushrooms in your regular foods. I have posted few mushroom recipes in my blog. Now let's see how to prepare this biryani. This biryani is a one pot dish prepared within 30 minutes. I have used basmati rice for this biryani you can use any jeera samba rice or ponni raw rice. 

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How to prepare Mushroom Biryani | Mushroom Biryani Recipe| |One Pot Rice Recipe 

Here is a short for Mushroom Biryani 

Prep time : 15 minutes 

Cook time : 20 minutes

Serves : 3

Category : rice varieties

Author : Muthulakshmi Madhavakrishnan

Ingredients 

•     1 cup basmati rice
•     200 grams button mushrooms
•     1 onions
•     1 tomato
•     2 to 3 green chillies
•     1.5 tsp ginger garlic paste
•     1/2 cup finely chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves
•     1 tsp chilly powder
•     1.5 tsp garam masala powder or biryani masala powder
•     1 tbsp thick curd
•     1 bay leaf
•     2 small piece cinnamon
•     3 cloves
•     2 cardamom
•     3 tbsp oil
•     2 tsp ghee
•     salt to taste

Cooking Directions

1. Take the basmati rice in a bowl and rinse the rice well. Soak the rice for 30 minutes. Cut the onions, tomatoes and green chillies. Take all the spices. Chop the mint leaves and coriander leaves. Clean the mushrooms and cut them.
2. Heat  oil and ghee in a pressure cooker and add all the spices one by one. Next, add the onions and saute it on medium heat. Add the green chillies and ginger garlic paste. Stir and saute them well.
3. Add the thinly sliced tomatoes. After a few seconds add the red chilly powder. Add the finely chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves. Add 1 tbsp curd and mix well. 
4. Now add the chopped mushrooms.Stir and saute them well.
5. Now add the mushrooms. Gently mix with the masala well. Add 1 tsp garam masala powder or biryani masala powder . Mix them well with the mushrooms.
6. Now add 1.25 cups of water. Add the required salt . Now add 1 cup soaked rice to it. Mix them gently.
7. Reduce the heat to low and close it with the lid. Pressure cook for 1 whistle and turn off the heat. Allow the pressure to settle down naturally. 
8. After 10 minutes, open the lid. Gently fluff the rice. Transfer the rice to the serving dish. Tasty and easy mushroom biryani is ready.