Cheater's biryani.

Last night I was coming home late from Hannah's, so I made it the day to try a new shortcut I'd been pondering.  

In the morning before leaving, I plugged my rice cooker -- it's restaurant-style, Tiger brand -- into the automatic light timer and set it to come on at 4 p.m.  Then I added brown rice, enough water to cook it, the contents of a commercial package of Vegetable Biryani Spice Mix, and half a bag of frozen peas and carrots.  Also a handful of frozen red bell pepper strips.  And a glob of coconut oil.  And then I went away.

When we got home, the house smelled wonderful.  To the rice cooker I added a handful of raisins and another handful of almonds.  These warmed up while I put the other things on the table.  We had the vegetable biryani with plain yogurt, chopped cucumber, steamed fresh green beans, and sliced fresh pears.  Pretty good!

Comments

[Tabitha]

I'm going to try some of these rice cooker entrees! They sound good and easy. Thanks for sharing.

[bearing]

Tabitha, I got a whole cookbook full of rice cooker entrees last year, but I didn't have time to try new recipes much so I lent it to Hannah. It's out there though. The something something rice cooker cookbook....

[Tabitha]

I'll have to look for that. I have a 10 cup rice cooker, so plenty of room for extra ingredients, even for my big family.