MUSHROOM BRIYANI

Ingredients:

300 grms button mushrooms quartered
3 cups of basmati rice soaked for 30 minutes. drain
1 big onion chopped
2 tomatoes chopped
2 potatoes cut into cubes and fried
5 green chillies slit
1 tbs garlic paste
1 tbs ginger paste
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp chillie powder
½ tsp garam masala powder
¼ tsp tumeric powder
2 tbs fresh curds
2 tbs ground cashew nuts
2 tsp lime juice
3 tbs ghee
3 tbs chopped coriander leaves
10 cashew nuts and 10 raisins fried in ghee
Deep fried onion crisps

Seasonings:
2 cinnamon stick, 3 cardamom pods, 2 bay leaves.
1 sprig curry leaves.

Method:
Heat a heavy bottomed pot with the ghee.
Add in the seasonings, and curry leaves.
Add in the chopped onions and sauté well
Now add in the ginger garlic paste, and green chillies.
Stir nicely, add in the chillie, coriander, tumeric powders.
Mix nicely, add in the tomatoes and cook till they turn mushy.

Add in the garam masala, fresh curds, and cashew nuts paste.
Mix well so that you have a thick gravy.
Add in the mushrooms, salt and lime juice..
Stir well so that the mushrooms are well coated with the masala.
Add in the soaked rice, fried potatoes add about 3 ½ cups of water.
Close with a very tight lid. Keep the flame very very low.
Let it cook on a sim till the water is fully absorbed
and the rice is cooked. Keep it close for some time.
Later fluff up the rice and garnish with the coriander leaves,
Cashew nuts, raisins and deep fried onion crisps