Vegetable Macaroni Biriyani

Days are flying at its own pace. A lot of ups and downs. In the past couple of days, I have heard a death and illness. Even though it is a part of life, is it something that we can just ignore? We all have to go through phases of illness, that may be like a passing phase but some that go on to become quite serious enough to take away life. We all have to always remember the fact that: “Every soul will taste death. And We test you with evil and with good as trial; and to Us you will be returned.” (Al Qur’an 21:35) Such reminders are necessary to keep us fixed to where we are, to keep ourselves humble, to remind ourselves that life is but a mirage and we as travellers, need to ensure that we do not get tricked to believe that we are immortals and can live and treat others the way we want. I guess whatever I seem to punch in today is quite hard language as far as a food blog is concerned, but I was just trying to portray the frame of mind I am in… 🙂

On a lighter note, coming to today’s recipe – do not get tricked by the name. It may be called biriyani because we leave the macaroni and masala on a literal dum for the last 10 minutes and likely it gets it’s name. Whatever said and done, this is a quick fix meal that you can put together for those lazy days. That is why I love macaroni/ pasta – you don’t know what to make for lunch or dinner, then pasta is there to show you the way!!! 🙂