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Small potato biryani recipe, with a unique flavourful masala. Learn how to make baby potato biryani with full video, stepwise pictures recipe.
I first tried small potato biryani from a cookbook and loved it. But the method was so tedious. So I adapted the recipe, made it shortcut method and it turned out equally good.
This is very spicy and different kind of biryani and the small potato attracts everyone in this dish. Kids gonna love it!
I have made this very often and it is my to go recipe whenever I have relatives at home. Usually biryani recipes have ginger garlic paste in main, but this one have no garlic, yet turns out so flavourful.
Check out this menu with baby potato biryani
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Small potato biryani recipe
Small potato biryani recipe, with a unique flavourful masala. Learn how to make baby potato biryani with full video, stepwise pictures recipe.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Indian
Prep Time 20 minutes minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes minutes
Author Raks Anand
Servings 4
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Cup measurements
Ingredients
- 1 cup Basmati rice
- 15 Small potato Use more if potatoes are too small
- 1 Onion Sliced lengthwise
- 1 Tomato Small
- ⅛ teaspoon Turmeric
- ½ teaspoon Garam masala
- 1 & ½ cup Water
- ¼ cup Curd You can use as less as just 2 tbsp
- ¼ cup Coriander leaves measured tightly packed
- Salt
To roast & grind
- 1 teaspoon Oil
- 1 tablespoon Coriander seeds
- 3 Red chilli Medium spice
- 3 Green chilli Medium spice
- ¾ tablespoon Ginger
- 2 tablespoon Grated coconut
To Temper
- 3 tablespoon Oil
- 1 Biryani leaf
- 1 Cinnamon small piece
- 1 Cardamom
- 1 Cloves
Instructions
Prep rice
Wash and soak rice for minimum 10 minutes. You can soak it for longer time.
Optional step to roast the rice for a minute or until dry in a teaspoon of oil. This ensures separate grains after getting cooked.
Cooking potato
Take a small pressure cooker and wash the small potatoes well.
Fill it with water until all are immersed fully.
Add generous rock salt. Pressure cook for 2 whistles.
Masala
Fry coriander seeds and redchillies in a teaspoon of oil until fragrant.
Add ginger, green chilli and give it a saute.
In goes 2 tablespoon grated coconut and roast until dry, starts wafting coconut aroma.
Place the above roasted items, coriander leaves, curd in a blender.
Grind smoothly.
Roast potato
Heat a pan with a tablespoon of oil and add the boiled, peeled small potatoes.
Roast in medium flame until golden brown. Turn over occasionally for even roasting.
Prepare biryani
Heat a small pressure cooker with oil and temper with cardamom, cinnamon, clove and biryani leaf.
Add sliced onion and fry for a minute.
After that, add finely chopped tomatoes and fry till soft with a pinch of salt.
Then add the ground paste, turmeric, garam masala and give it a stir.
After that, add the roasted potatoes and little salt.
Cook in low or medium flame for 4 minutes or until oil separates from the masala and the raw smell goes off. I cook covered.
After that, add roasted rice, 1 & ½ cup of water, required salt and mix well.
Check for salt and pressure cook for 2 whistles in medium flame or 14-15 minutes in lowest flame. (refer note 1)
Take care to prevent burnt bottom by stirring once in between if after 10 minutes. At the same time, don't break the rice while mixing. Do it very gently only few turns.
Level and again continue for 4-5 minutes. Switch off stove
Give 5 minutes standing time before serving.
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Notes
- My stove can be kept in a really low low flame, so I cook in low flame. My cooker is indolium does not get burnt at the bottom, best for such one pot rice items. Use the same for best results.
- Since there's coconut, curd in the masala, it tends to take longer to cook as well as chances for burnt bottom. So take care to prevent this.
- Add oil or ghee as needed as this rice will be very dry if there is no oil/ghee.
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Small potato biryani method:
Prep rice
- Wash and soak rice for minimum 10 minutes. You can soak it for longer time.
- Optional step to roast the rice for a minute or until dry in a teaspoon of oil. This ensures separate grains after getting cooked.
Cooking potato
- Take a small pressure cooker and wash the small potatoes well.
- Fill it with water until all are immersed fully.
- Add generous rock salt. Pressure cook for 2 whistles.
Masala
- Fry coriander seeds and redchillies in a teaspoon of oil until fragrant.
- Add ginger, green chilli and give it a saute.
- In goes 2 tablespoon grated coconut and roast until dry, starts wafting coconut aroma.
- Place the above roasted items, coriander leaves, curd in a blender.
- Grind smoothly.
Roast potato
- Heat a pan with a tablespoon of oil and add the boiled, peeled small potatoes.
- Roast in medium flame until golden brown. Turn over occasionally for even roasting.
Prepare biryani
- Heat a small pressure cooker with oil and temper with cardamom, cinnamon, clove and biryani leaf.
- Add sliced onion and fry for a minute.
- After that, add finely chopped tomatoes and fry till soft with a pinch of salt.
- Then add the ground paste, turmeric, garam masala and give it a stir.
- After that, add the roasted potatoes and little salt.
- Cook in low or medium flame for 4 minutes or until oil separates from the masala and the raw smell goes off. I cook covered.
- After that, add roasted rice, 1 & ½ cup of water, required salt and mix well.
- Check for salt and pressure cook for 2 whistles in medium flame or 14-15 minutes in lowest flame. (refer note 1)
- Take care to prevent burnt bottom by stirring once in between if after 10 minutes. At the same time, don't break the rice while mixing. Do it very gently only few turns.
- Level and again continue for 4-5 minutes. Switch off stove
- Give 5 minutes standing time before serving.
Top with ghee and garish with coriander leaves if desired and enjoy with onion raita!
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Reader Interactions
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Purnima
RK..lovely biryani!!shall give it a try!
Happy cook
Wow potoe biriyani looks delicious. I have never made them just with potato.
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Rajitha
mmm..yummy! i have MB's book too and have seen this recipe..should make it now 🙂
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Daily Meals
The biryani looks yummy with small potatoes.
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Siri
The baby potato biryani looks delicious Raji...a definite try for sure..:D Thanks for sharing the recipe..:)
~ Siri
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Kribha
Raji, That's a lovely biryani. I never knew that potatoes alone are enough to make a nice biryani. Thanks for sharing.
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Rachel
Potato biriyani looks worth a try!
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Seena
Raj,
I was looking for Badrinath's recipe book, haven't got one yet.
Any way, I have bookmarked this recipe, looks very delicious!Reply
Namratha
Oh wow, looks good and yummy!
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indosungod
Small Potato Briyani looks delicious and sure tastes the same. Can I just cook the rice just like I would Biryani instead of cooking the rice and then cooking it again in the end. Just curious thats all.
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Nags
this looks really yummy 🙂 And I love the way you have your ingredients in a box. very easy to follow that way!
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RAKS KITCHEN
Purnima,Happycook,rajitha,vijaya,Siri,Kribha,rachel...
Thankyou everyone..Do try this one,you all will love it for sure :))Reply
RAKS KITCHEN
Seena,
Hope you find her book soon..u can get it online too in her site..:)Try this out lemme know how it came out...!
Namratha,Thankyou;))Reply
RAKS KITCHEN
Indosungod,
May be you can try that way too...NO difference I think:)
Nags,
Thankyou for ur appreciation....:)Reply
sangeetaskitchen
supeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr raji, my mouth is watering,,,,,when are u inviting me!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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easycrafts
i always make gravy for baby potatoes...this is new to me...thanks for sharing
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Meera
Wow! That biryani looks so delicious! Looks like one more cookbook on my "To buy" list!
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Laavanya
That's really different.. and i love the fact that this is spicy. Have to try this soon!!
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Mandira
wow, the potato biryani looks delicious 🙂
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See AlsoMexican Cornbread Recipesagari
biryani looks soo yummy yummy raks
small potatos look beautiful I have'nt tryed biryani with potatos
LOVED YOUR RECIPEReply
RAKS KITCHEN
Sangeeta,
Whenever you are comfortable..you are welcome to my home;DReply
RAKS KITCHEN
easy crafts,
Thankyou for the compliments!
meera,
The book give a lot of ideas meera!
laavanya,
Its a really spicy kinda briyani!Just for spice lovers:D
Mandira,
Thankyou for the compliments!
sagari,
Sure that thte small potatoes give a look to the briyani...!glad that u love the recip:DReply
Latha Narasimhan
Lovely biryani raji! 🙂 I am busy for 2 months as my appa is staying with me! I may not be able post regularly and visit other blogs! I will compensate once I am free!:)
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Miri
This was one of the first books I bought when I started cooking on a daily basis and tried out most of the recips.
Haven't cooked from that book for a long time, thanks for reminding me - this dish looks yummy too!Reply
Swaroopa
looks gr8!! very tastey & healthy too...
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swapna susarla
small potatoes are looking yummy.u had a lot of tasty recipes.definitely have to try them.
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Seema
Looks great.. I have never tried these.. Will try it out! Looks awesome!
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Ramya's Mane Adige
looks lovely and different!!! Mallika Badrinath's recipe are always a hit!!! Thanx for the recipe
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RAKS KITCHEN
Thankyou everybody 🙂
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Lissie
beautiful pictures! never tried potato biriyani. it sounds delicious!
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Shivapriya
Yummy biryini.
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Cynthia
Thanks to the world of food blogging, I learn something new everyday such as un-thought-of combinations such as this one.
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remya
thats a variety biriyani..i love mallika's recipe....small potatoes in it looks very delicious...
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USHA
Wow!i like Mallika badrinath's recipes very much,the main reason is her measurements are perfect.
Thanks for sharing...keep sharing more recipes..I don;t find small potatoes near by myarea...planning to try with big potatoes making into bits...
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DEEPA
Oh wow!!!something really new ....i have never made this before ...will make it soon ...
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Dhanggit
i love rice.;but its too simple for my husband..this is a great idea to make him eat more rice.. 🙂 what a lovely recipe!!thanks for sharing i will try it for sure one of these days
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Menu Today
Hi Raks,
Your version looks soooo nice,. Lovely presentation...Reply
RAKS KITCHEN
Lissie,shivapriya,
Thankyou for the comments!
cynthiya,remya,
Thankyou for your lovely words!
Usha,
You can try it with big potatoes as well..once i too have tried with that!Reply
RAKS KITCHEN
dhanggit,
Glad that this recipe will be helpful to your hubby:)Thankyou somuch for dropping by!
Menutoday,
Thankyou for ur compliments!Reply
Prajusha
biriyani looks delicious..thanks for sharing a diff. variety of biriyani:)
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Maya Shanbhag
Thats a lovely looking biryani...Will try next time..
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Carol Kicinski
Hi, I just stumbled onto your blog and I am glad I did. Your biryani looks wonderful, I am definately going to make it! I am very new to blogging, it looks like you have a wonderful community of fellow bloggers!
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Sendhil
You are tagged. http://sendhil.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!30862CF919BD131A!1069.entry :-).
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Madhavi
baby potatoes in any thing - yummy.and biryani good idea.
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sagu's fantasy
look really delicious i'm try this recipe soon.
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nisha
wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
I tried this today and it came out so well.
the measurements are perfect.
thankyou and keep posting more recipes.Reply
nisha
wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
i tried this today and it came out so well.
the measurements are perfect.
thankyou and keep sharing more recipes .Reply
Sathya Sankar
Hi Raji ,your dish looks yummy ! iam droolin here.
This is my first visit to your blog, enjoyed your recipes..will give it a try soon.Reply
mala chari
i love your blog :). Am new to cooking & every time i want to try a new recipe i am here. It has the perfect measurement & it turns out so well..looking forward to learning so much from you :))
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meetha h narang
yes, it was really spicy, but yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmy............., although i added only one red chilli, but seasoned with whole garam masala.
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Anuradha
hi
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Vaishnavi
Its its awesome....:) thanks for the image come recipe.....:)
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Jeba Mini
Hi Raji,
My hubby is an Potato lover he loved this Briyani:)this is the first time i am trying this variety of Briyani.... Thanks for sharing this recipe.....
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Jeba Mini
Hi Raji,
Awesome briyani, My hubby is an potato lover so he loved it. This is the first time i am trying briyani and it came well:)........ Thanks a lot for your recipe......
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