Broken wheat meal maker biryani

Thought wheat rava is a diabetic food till I tried this recipe.I learnt to cook wheat rava just a few months back. It tastes good even as a simple upma with coconut chutney.

My grandmother makes milk from soaking this samba wheat and grinds with hands in a grinding stone. Once the milk is extracted by squeezing/filtering the wheat paste it is dried under the sun on a big plate. It becomes hard like biscuits then they are ground to a fine powder. This powder can be cooked like porridge and given to infants as a first solid food with a drop of ghee. Moreover, the same milk she uses to make wheat halwa which tastes as good as heaven.

Samba Wheat health facts:

It improves the cardiovascular system in postmenopausal women, prevents breast cancer and type 2 diabetes.

Broken wheat meal maker biryani Cuisine: Indian (South Indian/Tamil) Category: Lunch/Dinner Serves:3 Prep time: 15min Cook time:20 mins Ingredients: 1 ¼ cup broken wheat rava ½ cup meal maker/soya chunks 1 large onion 1 tomato medium size 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste/pounded 1 green chili ½ cup mint leaves ½ cup coriander leaves 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 tbsp ghee 2 tbsp oil 2 cups water Spices: 2” cinnamon stick 5-6 cloves 1 anise flower 1 marati moggu 1 bay leaf 1 tsp garam masala powder ½ tbsp chilli powder To make the biryani: 1.Boil water and add soya chunks. Cook for 7-8 minutes with a tsp of turmeric and salt. Drain water from soya and squeeze the excess water by using hands. Set aside. 2. Dry roast wheat rava for 3 minutes. 3.Heat oil and ghee in a pressure pan. Add the spices and fry till there’s a nicest aroma. 4.Add onions and gren chili. Saute till onion sweats. 5.Now we can add ginger garlic paste and saute till the raw smell leaves. 6.Followed by mint and coriander leaves add chopped tomato. 7. Once tomatoes turn to a paste add chilli powder, garam masala powder, soya chunks and salt. Saute for a minute. 8.Add 2 cups of water (in the ratio of 1 rava:1 ½ water ).Let it boil. 9.Add the roasted rava into the pressure pan and give it a stir. Close the pressure pan with cooker lid and put pressure release. 10.On a medium flame cook for about 1 -2 whistles. Switch off. Let the pressure come down. Open the lid and squeeze lemon over the biryani.   Serve it with plain curd/raitha.

Note:

Don’t use excess water for cooking or else the biryani might become halwa..hehe. You can use vegetables of your choice. I used a pressure cooker for cooking but if you are comfortable with wok then you can try in that but it might need extra water.