Vegetable Pulav

     This is a different style pulav, which is easy and tasty too. It will go with chicken curry, chick peas curry, or any vegetable curry, even with curd and a pickle.

 

 Ingredients

 

1.Basmati rice - 3 cup

2.Carrot - 1 grated

3.Beans -  ½ cup cut diagonally

4.Green peas - ½ cup

5.Onion - ½ (medium-sized)

6.Raisins - ¼ cup

7.Cashew -1/4 cup

8.Cloves - 6

9.Cardamom - 4

10. Cinnamon stick - ½ inch

11. Black pepper corns - 8

12. Ghee - 1 tsp

13. Salt  - to taste

 

Method

 

 

1. Soak the rice for 20 minutes.

2. Drain it.

3. Shallow fry the raisins, cashews and keep aside.  

4. Fry the onion. 

5. Then shallow fry the beans with a pinch of salt. 

6. When the beans are half-done add the carrots and shallow fry them(add oil if needed). Keep these fried vegetables aside.

    

 

 

 

7. Heat a heavy nonstick pan, add the ghee and fry the drained rice in low flame for 5 mts. 

8. Meanwhile in another vessel boil water (6 cup for 3 cup of rice) with salt and whole garam masala. 

9. Pour the boiling water to the pan containing fried rice and stir well. Close it with a lid and cook in medium heat.

10. Check for water in between.

11. After 25- 30 mts the rice will be 98% cooked and there will be no water in the pan. 

12. Then remove it from the heat and add the green peas (don’t stir), close it again with the lid. Let it cool. 

13. The rice will be fully cooked by that time. Now add the fried Vegetables, fried onion, cashews, raisins to the rice and mix gently with a fork.