Biryani meal ideas for Sunday or special food for someone. This post is a part of my Lunch menu series where I share some food ideas.
This week its going to be a Biryani meal, I make this every week as my kid is a Biryani lover and I think I have mentioned this in my previous posts too. He started eating biryani at the age of 2 and he never gets bored out of it.
So from the day I started making Biryani, I have changed a lot of recipes, its like, when I get a good hold in a particular biryani recipe and my kid loves it, I will keep that fixed for few months until I learn another variation so that it's not boring.
He has some compulsory ingredients, if not, he wont like eating it. The main thing he want is mint leaves! And the main vegetable is Cauliflower. If not for these two, he will not touch the Biryani or not even call it as Biryani. So I make sure I only make when I have both in stock.
Both my mom and MIL makes ‘vegetable rice’ kind of thing, without any much masalas. But mine will be loaded with masalas, fennel, Garlic, ginger and mint leaves.
My dad and my MIL will ask ‘is that smell coming out of our kitchen or from somewhere else?’ as they are not used to these masalas in their cooking and not comfortable too.
So when I make biryani while they are here, I make sure I also make a rasam and a vegetable side dish so that they can manage with those. But if its going to be for only 3 of us, I just make Biryani alone or may be with a curd rice for Vj.
We make sure to do a ‘fried item’ like any varuvals or atleast vadam/ appalam to munch on along with raita. Let's see the biryani meal ideas below.
Recipes
This is one of the very first recipes I learnt. I always make slight variations and make my biryani each time, so it may look different here.
Coconut milk veg biryani recipe
2. Curd rice
We always make sure to end our meal with curd rice. This is tempered version though we have plain curd rice on everyday basis. Whenever I make Biryani, I make sure this tempered version.
Curd rice / Thayir sadam recipe
3. Onion raita
Onion raita is the must have side dish for any biryani. It's easy to make as well as the best side dish for biryani.
Onion raita recipe | How to make onion raita
So here are the Biryani recipes I have in my blog :
- Instant pot biryani
- Seeraga samba Brinji
- Veg palav
- Soya chunks biryani
- Jackfruit biryani
- Spicy vegetable Biryani recipe
- Layered Biryani recipe
You can also see my recently made Maavadu pickle in the picture.
Side dish
Main question when we make biryani is what goes well with it? What to serve with it. Here are some of my suggestions
Brinjal masala
Baked gobi 65
Also check out my other side dish for biryani
Add some dessert to go with it if you like. A simple semiya payasam or make ahead rasmalai, basundi and serve with it to make it a 3 course meal.
Have a great weekend people!
Revathi
My all time fav lunch menu,perfect for a whole some meal
AparnaRajeshkumar
awesome menu Raks ! u rock 😛
Unknown
aah!! if only i was your neighbor!! 🙂 even if you don't share the food, i would have turned my front door towards your kitchen to smell this meal! 🙂
Hari Chandana P
Wonderful menu... Yummy !!
Vaishali Kale
A request....could you also post some kids lunch/lunch box menus ?
BAGIRATHI DEVI
My favorite food
Raks anand
Sure will do post in recent future!
Sharmilee! :)
Nice lunch combo....looks very tempting!
Nagalakshmi V
i am really liking the menu series. the page i had set up for menu ideas hasn't been updated in ages, then i gave it up halfway like a lot of my projects 😀
VineelaSiva
Looks yummy and perfect meal.
Kitchen Queen
my favorite biryani. i also masala freak, like to add whole spices so it fragrant the house too. like all your menus.
Kalpana Sareesh
wow..will be my fav meal..
Aparna Srinivasan
Raji.. which one of these 3 briyani's is in the pic??
Hema
Cute plate.. My kid needs to have carrot compulsorily.. Even my parents don't take much masala.. they like the plain version.. must be their age, they cannot digest i guess.. I tried your corn pulav and it was absolutely delicious.. I cudnt take any pics, everyone ate it too soon.. I will post it soon.. Thanks for the recipe Raks..
Santhi Siva
LUNCH MENU 4 - BIRYANI MEAL looks so tempting.
Gayathri Ramanan
wonderful idea..tempting biryani
Meenakshi Nilakantan
hey...this biryani reminds me of my days in college when we used to sit together and prepare amazing dishes in our spare time....a little bit of sweet to go along with it will make it even more interesting....we used to order sweets from this site called Dealtz..they are specifically god for their brownies... ..http://dealtz.com/Gifts/Brownie
Divya Pramil
Aha what an inviting platter dear.. Wow wish I could grab it right now.. 🙂
Soumya
Have tried the Spicy Veg Biryani and it came out well. Most of all I want to thank you for the lovely dish Veg Chilli Mili it's a super hit in my place have prepared 3 times from last 2 weeks and will make many more. Its a perfect dish for the parties.
Would recommend all my friends to follow your blog, keep up the great work, appreciate all your patience for posting the variety of detail step by step recipes. Keep rocking!!...Onion dosa is great!!...I have to list most of the recipes from your recipe index which turned out awesome...may be some day I will draft an a response on that 🙂
Can you please post, Ginger chutney (Andra Style Allam cutney) and Saag paneer (Punjabi Style) how we get in restaurants.
Thanks!! looking forward for these recipes.
Soumya
Suresh K
Hi
The Receipes given are great.
Can you check and include the traditional evening snacks menu like aval upma, riceflour upma, ..
Joy of cooking
Hi Raks. .....I have gone through top 30 blogs... all are good....but urs is best bcoz of your writing skills, content, photographs of dishes and this idea of lunch combinations and so many reasons. I will follow ur blog entire life....so pls keep going and doing ur best in future. Best wishes to you.
Unknown
Wow! you have got a fantastic list of recipes, some of which are very tasty. I would like you to take halal accreditation and bring your foods to Dubai. Let everyone taste these lovely food.