Garlicky Festive Rice

Name: Garlicky Festive Rice (Subzi Biryani)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 2 small carrots, peeled, ends trimmed, cut in half lengthwise, and cut into ½-inch cubes; 2 teaspoons Punjabi garam masala; 1½ teaspoons coarse kosher or sea salt; ½ cup fresh or frozen green peas (no need to thaw if frozen); 1 cup Indian or Pakistani white basmati rice; 2 or 3 fresh or dried bay leaves; 2 cinnamon sticks (each 3 inches long); 1 medium-size red onion, cut in half lengthwise and thinly sliced; 6 medium-size cloves garlic, cut into thin slivers; 1 cup cauliflower florets (½-inch florets); 1 cup fresh or frozen cut green beans (about 1-inch pieces; no need to thaw if frozen); 2 tablespoons Ghee or canola oil; 1 teaspoon black cumin seeds; 1 teaspoon cumin seeds; 6 green or white cardamom pods; 6 whole cloves; Vegetable cooking spray; 1 teaspoon ground Kashmiri chiles; or ¼ teaspoon cayenne (ground red pepper) mixed with ¾ teaspoon sweet paprika; 1 teaspoon coarse kosher or sea salt; 2 tablespoons heavy (whipping) cream or half-and-half, warmed; ¼ teaspoon saffron threads

Subzi Biryani

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

660 Curries

By Raghavan Iyer

Published 2008

About

Festive and colorful, this biryani is perfect for weddings—and for the people you want to impress and please the most (which, in my mind, should be you). It’s not hard to put together, and in fact you can assemble it the day before you plan to serve it. For a very special meal, bake it an hour or two before you plan to serve it (to make life easy), and offer it with one of the legume curries (for vegetarians) or meat curries (for the carnivores), with a y

Ingredients

Asia
India
Main course
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

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