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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Indian Subcontinent >> Indian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Thoroughly grind the saffron threads with the sugar. | 2. Add the hot water and allow the saffron to steep and become fragrant. | 3. Cook the rice in water, biryani paste and saffron. | 4. While the rice is cooking, clean, trim and cut vegetables into bite-sized pieces. | 5. Brown the onion in a bit of olive oil and salt. Add turmeric, ground meat, if any, or quinoa and brown for another 10 minutes or so. | 6. Once the water has been absorbed (~10 mins), gently fold the vegetables (all but the peas) and meat/quinoa into the rice and cover the pot. Reduce the heat and allow the vegetables to cook (~20-30 mins). | 7. Turn off the heat and gently mix the frozen peas into the rice. | 8. Sprinkle few sprigs of fresh coriander (cilantro) and crunchy toasted cashews on top for a sexy finish. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
saffron strand	5 -6			-	-	-	-
sugar	1	pinch		1.1471	0.2869	0.0	0.0
hot water	2	tablespoons		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
onion	2		chopped	88.0	20.548000000000002	2.42	0.22
spice	2	tablespoons	mixed	31.56	8.6544	0.7308	1.0428
quinoa	2	lbs	ground cooked	1741.7968	161.4791	97.0689	109.7695
basmati rice	3	cups		-	-	-	-
water	4	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
biryani spice mix	5	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
cauliflower	1			26.75	5.3179	2.0544	0.2996
ginger	1	tablespoon	minced	4.8	1.0662	0.1092	0.045
garlic clove	3 -4		smashed	-	-	-	-
green bean	1	cup		31.0	6.97	1.83	0.22
tomato	2			80.4198	17.3796	3.9316	0.8936
carrot	3			88.56	20.6928	2.0088	0.5184
zucchini	3			6.93	1.0263	0.8943	0.132
cashew	1/2	cup		-	-	-	-
pea	1/3	cup		13.72	2.4663	0.9147	0.0653
cilantro	1/4	cup		0.92	0.1468	0.0852	0.0208

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.