Mushroom Biryani Recipe South Indian Style

Ingredients is needed for making mushroom Biryani is :

Button Mushrooms - 200 gm
Rice - 2 cups
Onion - 2
Curd - 1 cup
Tomato - 2
Ginger garlic paste - 3 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Chilli powder - 3 tsp
Coriander powder - 2 tsp
Garam masala powder - 2 tsp
Coriander leaves - a bunch
Mint leaves - a bunch
Saunf - 1 tsp
Butter - as needed
Salt - as needed


Method to Cook

1.First, Soak rice in water for half an hour.
2.Strain water and set aside.
3.Cut mushroom finely.
4.Cut onion, tomato, coriander leaves, mint leaves finely.
5.Mix turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder, ginger garlic paste, coriander leaves, mint leaves, tomato, salt with curd in a bowl and set aside.
6.Heat butter in a frying pan.
7.Add saunf, onion,fry for a few minutes.
8.Add rice, fry for sometime, transfer to a cooker, pressure cook till it whistles twice and set aside.
9. Heat butter in a frying pan.
10.Add mushroom, fry for a few minutes.
11.Add curd mix, fry till the contents are dry and remove pan from the stove.    
12.Transfer rice to a large bowl.
13.Add mushroom to rice and mix well.

Serve it as you like or suite your style.

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What is Mushroom and how they become fruit body?

Mushrooms are the fruit body of a fungus and are one of the natures most precious gifts to human beings. The term Mushroom is derived from many languages-1> Latin 'fungo' means to Flourish, i.e. growing out from the ground or from trees. 2> Greeck 'Sphongos' or 'sphoggos' means 'sponge' i.e species having sponge like structure and 3> French mousseron 'mousse or moss'.

Mushroom has got different names in different languages, viz. 'Ksumpa' in Sanskrit; Khumbi for button mushroom in hindi , 'Dhingri' for oyster mushroom in hindi; other words in Sanskrit or Chatra for the fleshy capped fungi, Bhoomicavak, kavaka, Bhustma and Kururmutta.

Mushrooms belongs to a separate group of organisms called fungi {Fungus}they lack the usual green matter{Chlorophyll} present in plants and grows on dead and decaying organic materials. From these decaying substrates, they absorb their nutrition's with the help of very fine thread structures {Mycelium}which penetrates into the  substratum and generally not visible on the surface. After the mycelium has grown profusely and absorbed sufficient food materials; it forms the productive structure which generally comes out of the substrate and forms a fruiting body may be umbrella like or of various  other shapes, sizes and color. Commonly it consists of a cup or volva, performing various functions in the most important functions and productive millions of minute "seeds" {spore} of mushrooms which under favorable conditions germinate on suitable substrate and give rise to a new mushroom mycelium, which after mating with other compatible mycelium, or self-mating, produces the fruiting bodies to complete the life cycle.

Mushroom in nature are generally found to grow in places where dead remains of plants, such as leave, straw, logs etc. are decaying; hence in forest fields and meadows grow in abundance. However all mushrooms are not edible some are highly poisonous too.

Mushroom is the most important cash crops grown indoors, as compared to other traditional crops grown outdoors. Mushrooms is the only non green crop grown for commerce with attractive profits. As i earlier mentioned that mushroom is the fruit body of a fungus, which is neither a plant nor an animal, but having a separate kingdom of its own. Fungi have some characteristics of plants, some of animals and some its own when we look at its biology, physiology and phylogeny.

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WHAT IS STERILIZATION?

Sterilization in simple terms is to keep away insects and moulds.
It is very important not to confuse sterilization and pasteurization.
Pasteurization is never used in spawn making, but it is generally used for
cultivating mushrooms. Sterilization requires a pressure vessel called a retort
or autoclave.Sterilization requires a minimum of 121°C (250°F)
steam (2 atmospheres pressure) for 20 minutes. That short time is only
adequate if nothing contains more than 20 ml of liquid and all glass vessels
or other equipment is thin and easily heated. Longer times are necessary for
greater volumes of liquid, heavier equipment, and especially for anything
solid that occupies a substantial volume. Containers with 200 ml of liquid
will require 30 minutes. Grain used as substrate for spawn will require many
hours. The exact time will depend on the size and shape of the containers.
Another means of sterilizing is to heat things in a flame. Wires, needles
and many other things are heated until they are cherry red. Usually that method
is only practical with small metal items and then only to about 3 cm above
the area that is actually used. Although they have been sterilized, the openings
of tubes and bottles are normally put in a flame as soon as they are opened,
kept open for only a few seconds and put in a flame again, just before they
are closed. Knives and some other utensils, are generally first dipped in 70%
alcohol and then put in a flame, just to ignite the alcohol, and used as soon as
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