Potato Rice is a potato hero spicy masala rice made by cooking potatoes along with rice, tempered spices, masala paste, onion, tomato etc. Potato Rice can be made when you crave for masala and do not have enough veggies at home. 
How to make Potato Biryani is featured in this recipe with step by step pictures.
About Potato Rice
I have tried this Potato Rice quite a few times now that I modified the recipe to suit our taste. Biryani always takes a special place in our menu either at home or in restaurants and sundays are always meant for making biryanis…lazing around and having a late mild breakfast and waiting to feast on the royal biryani….Is that your routine too?
I am sure you will fall for this biryani with its unique flavour and taste. What are you waiting for? Get ready with the ingredients.
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Potato Rice | Potato Biryani
Ingredients
- 1 cup basmati rice
- 2 big onion medium sized chopped lengthwise
- 2 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- tomato puree from 2 big tomatoes
- 1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder
- 1.5 cups water
- salt to taste
- oil to toast / deep fry
To grind:
- 1 teaspoon coriander seeds
- 2 red chillies
- 3/4 coriander leaves loosely packed
- 3 tablespoon coconut
- 2 green chillies
For the marinade :
- 12 baby potatoes (I halved it)
OR
- 3/4 cup normal potatoes chopped
- 3 tablespoon thick curd
- 1.5 teaspoon rice flour
- 1/2 teaspoon red chilli powder
- 1/4 teaspoon garam masala powder
- salt to taste
To temper:
- 2 tablespoon oil+ ghee
- 1/4 inch piece cinnamon
- 2 cloves
- 1 cardamom
- 1/2 bayleaf
Instructions
- Dry roast red chillies and coriander seeds till golden brown , then grind it along with other ingredients listed under ‘to grind’ to a fine paste with little water.Set aside.
- Soak basmati rice for 15-20mins.
- Chop the potatoes into half(mine was little big do halved it), prick holes with a toothpick and add it along with the ingredients listed under ‘for the marinade’ and marinate for 15mins.
- Then deep fry / toast them till golden brown, set aside.
- Fry 1 onion chopped lengthwise to golden brown.Set aside.
- Heat oil + ghee in a pressure cooker – add the items under ‘to temper’ then add onion, ginger garlic paste and fry till slightly browned then add tomato puree and cook till raw smell leaves.
- Then add the coriander paste along with garam masala powder, saute for few mins till raw smell leaves then add roasted/fried potatoes and give a quick stir.
- Add required salt.
- Add the presoaked rice, then water and pressure cook for 3-4 whistles.
- Once pressure releases fluff it up with a fork.
- While serving garnish with fried onions and serve with onion raita / cucumber raita. Enjoy Potato Rice!
Notes
- Make sure to prick holes so that the masala marinade gets inside the baby potatoes but be careful prick gently.
- My small potatoes were like mini atom bombs 😉 so I halved them. If you have smaller ones just use them as such
- This is little spicy so adjust green chillies and red chillies according to your spice level.
- You can use normal potatoes chopped into cubes too.
How to make Potato Rice
- Dry roast red chillies and coriander seeds till golden brown , then grind it along with other ingredients listed under ‘to grind’ to a fine paste with little water.Set aside.Soak basmati rice for 15-20mins.
- Chop the potatoes into half(mine was little big do halved it), prick holes with a toothpick and add it along with the ingredients listed under ‘for the marinade’ and marinate for 15mins. Then deep fry / toast them till golden brown, set aside. Fry 1 onion chopped lengthwise to golden brown.Set aside.
- Heat oil + ghee in a pressure cooker – add the items under ‘to temper’ then add onion, ginger garlic paste and fry till slightly browned then add tomato puree and cook till raw smell leaves.
- Then add the coriander paste along with garam masala powder, saute for few mins till raw smell leaves then add roasted/fried potatoes and give a quick stir.Add required salt.
- Add the presoaked rice, then water and pressure cook for 3-4 whistles.Once pressure releases fluff it up with a fork.
While serving garnish with fried onions and serve it onion raita / cucumber raita.
Expert Tips
- Make sure to prick holes so that the masala marinade gets inside the baby potatoes but be careful prick gently.
- My small potatoes were like mini atom bombs 😉 so I halved them. If you have smaller ones just use them as such
- This is little spicy so adjust green chillies and red chillies according to your spice level.
- You can use normal potatoes chopped into cubes too.
Akila
Delicious Briyani
AparnaRajeshkumar
such delight post :)lovely sharmi !
Lavi Raj
lovely and yummy aloo biryani! love the second pic, with rice grains apart!!
Priya Suresh
Wat a droolworthy briyani, seriously inviting.
Rafeeda AR
such a lipsmacking biriyani… bookmarked!!!!
Prathima Rao
Too delicious biryani!! Perfect for a party!!
Prathima Rao
Prats Corner
Rita Bose
Biryani looks so tempting! Lovely clicks! Drooling over here! Do visit/follow my blog at-http://www.rita-bose-cooking.com/
JEYASHRI SURESH
tempting biryani. I have clicked step wise but couldnt make final pic. Waiting for my next visit to Indian shop to buy this small potatoes. Love to have some now
Dipti Joshi
Nice stepwise procedure for making biryani..Love it..
Devangi Kanchan
Is it ok to use the normal potatoes instead of baby potatoes? If so then what would be the quantity? Please reply. Thank you 🙂
Sharmilee! :)
Have updated in the recipe itself now 🙂
Devangi Kanchan
Thank you so much 🙂
Sapana Behl
lovely Biryani !
Veena Theagarajan
love the flavour of it.. so yummy
Nagalakshmi V
love the fried onions in the rice. looks great!
CHITRA
Delicious biryani, its in my try list 🙂 looks so yummy..
RAKS KITCHEN
My favorite and my family favorite too. Love it a lot anytime.
RAKS KITCHEN
Lovely clicks
Uma Ramanujam
Lovely clicks. It is there in my to-do list. Like the fried onion over the biryani…
Gayathri Ramanan
super tempting biryani..lovely clicks..
Sakthi C
super biryani… Thank you providing images too.. shall i know about same recipes available in tamil language.. better for easy understand only
Viji
I wanted to try a new version of briyani.. I did this one today.. it came out very well.. I think we can even use this recipe as potato gravy for rotis or for any pulao.. thanks for posting a new version of briyani
Iswarya Balasubramaniyan
Hi Sharmi,
When do u add salt to the briyani? and approx how much should we add ?..
SHARMILEE J
Check step4…its tough to give measures for salt.
Ramanathan Kannappan
Should we parboil the potato and then marinate
SHARMILEE J
There is no need to parboil, pressure cooking is enough to cook the potatoes
Padma Sri
Hi,
I tries this briyani n its was awsome.. Tasted very much like a restuarant style biriyani. My family loved it so much.. I cant believe tht it was over for the lunch it self coz every time if we hav biriyani for lunch it ll remain for dinner too.. But this was over. I was happy to see the empty vessel.. 😀
Keerthi S
Hello Sharmi,
I wanted to know if 1 cup of rice equals 240 ml and how much water is to be added per cup of rice.
Thanks,
Keerthi
SHARMILEE J
My 1 cup measures 250 ml and I used 1 and 1/2 cups for my 1 cup of rice…..
Netri
Good recipe. Considering that I'm a novice cook the biryani turned out be pretty decent.
Alwaysvetti
Sharmi, in ingredients u have given as 12 potatoes boiled.do we need to boil?
SHARMILEE J
Oh thats a typo…I updated it now.It is raw potatoes only
Anitha
Fantastic briyani sharmi:) I tried twice ,delicious .my husband and my kid likes it:) thank you:)