Fragrant, comforting, and easy to serve as a complete meal, kuska recipe | kuska biryani recipe | how to make plain biryani recipe is a vegetarian Indian biryani made with ghee / clarified butter, bay leaf / tej patta, and cinnamon / dalchini in about 30 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 10 minutes
- Cook time: 20 minutes
- Total time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 2 Servings
- Category: biryani
- Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp ghee / clarified butter
- 1 bay leaf / tej patta
- 1 inch cinnamon / dalchini
- 3 pods cardamom / elachi
- 1 star anise
- 5 cloves / lavang
- ½ tsp fennel / saunf
- 1 tsp cumin / jeera
- 1 onion (finely chopped)
- ¼ cup curd / yoghurt (whisk)
- 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- 1 green chilli (slit)
- ¼ tsp turmeric / haldi
- 1 tomato (finely chopped)
- ½ tsp kashmiri red chilli powder
- 1 tsp biryani masala
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp mint / pudina (finely chopped)
- 2 tbsp coriander (finely chopped)
- 1 cup basmati rice (soaked 20 minutes)
- 2 cup water
Method
- firstly, in a pressure cooker heat 2 tbsp ghee and saute spices.
- also saute 1 onion followed by 1 tsp ginger garlic paste and 1 green chilli.
- additionally add 1 tomato and saute till the tomatoes turn soft and mushy.
- further keeping the flame on low, add ¼ cup whisked curd and saute till the curd combines well without curdling.
- now add ¼ tsp turmeric, ½ tsp chilli powder, 1 tsp biryani masala and 1 tsp salt. saute on low flame till it turns aromatic.
- additionally, add 2 tbsp mint and 2 tbsp coriander. mix well.
- furthermore, add 1 cup basmati rice and 2 cup water. mix well.
- cover and pressure cook for 2 whistles on medium flame or till rice gets cooked completely.
- finally, serve kuska rice / kuska biryani with mirchi ka salan or raita.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.
