Easy Mushroom Rice Recipe | Mushroom Rice | Startup Cooking

 EASY MUSHROOM RICE REICPE | MUSHROOM RICE | STARTUP COOKING

A tasty rice recipe with mushrooms. The mushroom rice is made in the traditional way of cooking on dum method using basmati rice in South Indian style. This mushroom rice tastes like Tamil Nadu "kuska" biryani. The cloves and cinnamon stick gives a nice flavor to the biryani and gives an excellent taste.  

This biryani is so simple and easy to prepare without putting much effort. Button mushroom is a great choice for this recipe which is really good for our immunity. Mushrooms are very beneficial in reducing the risk of heart diseases and cancer, and also it contains lots of vitamins and minerals.

Try my other Indian Rice Recipes

• veg dum biryani
• Chettinad mushroom biryani
• Egg Biryani
• Ambur mutton biryani
• bhai Veetu chicken biryani

You can serve this biryani with onion raitha or any paneer gravy. It is apt to serve on the occasions like pot luck, buffet, birthday party or weekend lunch etc., Follow my step-by-step photo recipe to prepare Mushroom Biryani. If you like this recipe, share it, tweet it and pin it. Please do try and post your comments.

Try my other Mushroom Recipes

• Mushroom kurma
• Mushroom Pepper Fry
• Chettinad Mushroom Biryani
• Matar Mushroom Masala

RECIPE FOR EASY MUSHROOM RICE

Coarse       : Lunch

Cuisine      : South Indian

Author       : Jayashree Karthik

Prep Time  : 5 min

Cook Time : 25 min

Total Time  : 30 min

INGREDIENTS

• 1.5 cup basmati rice

• 1 tbsp ghee

• 2 inch cinnamon stick

• 3 cloves

• 2 cardamom pods

• 1 large onion - thinly sliced

• 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste

• 1 large tomato - ripe variety - chopped

• 4 green chilli - slit

• 1.5 cup mushrooms

• salt to taste

• 1/4 cup coriander leaves - chopped

PROCEDURE

• soak basmati rice in enough water for 30 minutes

• heat ghee in a pot

• temper with cloves, cinnamon stick and cardamom pods

• add thinly sliced onion

• saute well for few minutes until the onions are soft

• add ginger garlic paste and slit green chili

• saute well for few minutes until the raw smell goes

• add chopped tomato

• cook the tomatoes well until mushy

• add chopped mushrooms

• saute for 1-2 minutes

• now the mushrooms are started to shrink and it releases the water

• add 3 cups of water

• add salt and mix well

• bring water to boil

• add soaked rice

• mix well

• boil the rice over high flame for 3-4 minutes (the rice will drink most of the liquid and now the rice cooked almost to 60%-70%)

• garnish with chopped coriander leaves

• now bring the flame to low, cover with aluminum foil and then cover with lid, dum cook for 15 minutes

• switch off the flame and rest the pot for 10 minutes

• now open the pan and gently fluff up the rice

• mushroom rice ready to serve with raita

• taste is simply delicious

NOTES

1. you can cook the mushroom rice in pressure cooker for 3 whistle
2. you can grind the green chillies along with ginger and garlic paste

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Easy Mushroom Rice with Step By Step 

Photo Recipe

heat ghee in a pan, temper with cloves, cinnamon stick 

and cardamom pods

add thinly sliced onion

saute well until it turns transparent

add ginger garlic paste and slit green chillies

saute well until the raw smell goes

add chopped tomato

saute well

add chopped mushrooms

saute well for few minutes, mushrooms started to shrink 

and it releases the water

add water and salt

mix well and bring water to boil

add soaked basmati rice

mix well and cook on high flame for 5 minutes

rice is almost cooked nearly 70%

garnish with coriander leaves

dum cook for 15 minutes in low flame

mushroom rice ready

gently fluff up the rice

Easy Mushroom Rice