Healthy Mint Vegetable Rice

Mint Vegetable rice is a healthy and super tasty rice recipe, it can be served with any raita of your choice, or with some gravy. I usually preferred to have it with onion raita. As I said it is a healthy rice recipe, as it contains different types of vegetables, spices. So, the ingredients used in this recipe are beans, carrots, cauliflowers, green peas, freshly chopped onion, freshly chopped tomatoes, ginger garlic paste, freshly chopped coconuts, mint leaves, coriander leaves, cloves, cinnamon sticks, cardamom, bay leaf, fennel seeds, oil, basmati rice, chili powder (optional), coriander powder, biryani powder, green chilies, lemon, ghee, salt as per taste, water as required.

Healthy Mint Vegetable Biryani,
Healthy Mint Vegetable Biryani,

There are different types of biryani recipes, like vegetable biryani, hariyali biryani, dum biryani, hyderabadi biryani, keema biryani, mushroom biryani, paneer biryani, Soya biryani, prawns biryani, fish biryani, mint biryani, potato biryani, vegetable dum biryani, egg biryani, chicken biryani, mutton biryani, egg dum biryani, chicken dum biryani, mutton dum biryani and so on the list goes on. It can be served with onion raita, tomato raita, cucumber raita.

Healthy Mint Vegetable Biryani gravy before adding rice.
Healthy Mint Vegetable Biryani gravy before adding rice.

We can use any vegetable of your choice, I usually use fresh green peas, beans, carrots, cauliflowers, sometimes I like to add chopped potatoes too. Some may use capsicum, chow chow, fresh peanuts, soya junks, roasted breads. So, the vegetable biryani is a healthy and tasty recipe. It can be prepared for breakfast, or for lunch and even for dinner too.

Fresh Vegetables used in biryani
Freshly chopped Vegetables used in biryani, like freshly chopped cauliflowers, chopped beans, freshly chopped carrots, fresh green peas.

You can also find other rice recipes, and here is the link given above. Do try the recipes.

Vegetable mint biryani or mint biryani or vegetable biryani or hariyali biryani or biryani recipe with step by step pictures and instructions are given below.

Healthy Mint Vegetable Biryani

Mint Vegetable biryani is a helathy and tasty biryani recipe, it goes well with onion raita or any raita of your choice.

  • 3 cups Basmati rice
  • ½ cup Freshly chopped beans
  • ½ cup Freshly chopped carrots
  • ½ cup Green peas
  • ½ cup Freshly cut Cauliflowers
  • 2 Chopped Onion
  • 3 Chopped Tomatoes
  • 4 Cloves
  • 2 Cinnamon Stick
  • 3 Cardamom
  • ¼ tsp Fennel seeds
  • 2 Bay leaf
  • 1 or 2 Star Asin
  • 1 tsp Coriander Powder
  • ⅛ tsp Turmeric Powder
  • 2 tbsp Oil
  • Salt (As per taste)
  • 4½ cup Water

For Grinding

  • 1 cup Mint leaves
  • ½ cup Chopped Coconuts
  • ½ cup Coriander leaves
  • 1 inch Ginger
  • 2 tbsp Garlic cloves
  1. Soak Basmati rice for 3o minutes.

  2. Add in oil, all the spices, chopped onion, chopped tomatoes, chilies. Cook till the raw smell goes.

  3. Add in all the freshly chopped veggies. Fry for 3 minutes in low flame.

  4. Take a mixer jar and add in chopped coconuts, ginger garlic, mint leaves, coriander leaves. Make a paste of it.

  5. Add in the grounded paste, water as required and close the lid and cook for 3 to 5 minutes in low flame.

  6. Add in the soaked rice, salt as per taste, ghee and squeeze lemon juice. Give a mix. Cook till the rice cooks.

  7. Now the healthy mint vegetable rice is ready to serve with onion raita.

  1. Add in the fried cashew nuts to enhance the taste of the biryani.
  2. Instead of water we can add coconut water to enhance the taste of the biryani.

Methods:

Take a pan and add in cloves, fennel seeds, cardamom, cinnamon sticks, bay leaf.
Take a pan and add in cloves, fennel seeds, cardamom, cinnamon sticks, bay leaf.
Add in the chopped onions and little salt. Cook till the onions turns golden color.
Add in the chopped onions and little salt. Cook till the onions turns golden color.
Add in chopped tomatoes.
Add in chopped tomatoes.
Add in the freshly chopped veggies.
Add in the freshly chopped veggies.
Add in freshly chopped cauliflower.
Add in freshly chopped cauliflower.
Close the lid and cook for 5 minutes in low flame.
Close the lid and cook for 5 minutes in low flame.
Take a mixer jar and add in chopped coconuts, ginger and garlic cloves.
Take a mixer jar and add in chopped coconuts, ginger and garlic cloves.
Add in mint leaves, coriander leaves.
Add in mint leaves, coriander leaves.
Grounded paste
Grounded paste
Add in the grounded paste and water as required.
Add in the grounded paste and water as required.
Add in the spice powders.
Add in the spice powders.
Add in the soaked basmati rice.
Add in the soaked basmati rice.
Squeeze lemon juice
Squeeze lemon juice
Add in ghee and salt as per taste.
Add in ghee and salt as per taste.
Close the lid and cook till 20 minutes in low flame.
Close the lid and cook till 20 minutes in low flame.
Now the healthy mint vegetable biryani is ready to serve with onion raita.
Now the healthy mint vegetable biryani is ready to serve with onion raita.
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