Vegetable Pulao / Pulav

Finally the drizzles are here and I'm loving the climate completely hope this continues for the coming days as well......Had a busy week both at work and home.More busy days ahead, so am trying to keep myself prepared for them.

Coming to todays recipe vegetable pulao : This is a easy and filling one pot meal....It just needs raita to finish off the bowl. Only chopping the veggies is time consuming and even for that my chopper comes to the rescue :) If thats ready this pulao can be done in a jiffy.

Ingredients:

• Basmati Rice-1 cup
• Onion - 1/2 medium chopped lengthwise
• Bay leaf - 1
• Jeera -2 tsp
• Green chilli chopped finely -1
• Ginger garlic paste - 3 tsp
• Vegetables of ur choice - almost 1/2 cup[I used 2 carrots, 4-5 beans and handful of peas]
• Oil-1 tbsp
• Ghee-1 tbsp
• Salt - to taste
• Red chilli powder-1 tsp
• Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp [optional - I didnt use it]
• Water - 1.5 cups
• Cashews - 4 to 5 broken [I used it as whole for garnishing]

To be grinded :

• Cloves-2
• Cinnamon-1 inch stick
• Cardamom - 1
• Onion - 1/2 medium sized onion

Method:

1. Rinse rice well twice atleast and soak in water for 30mins. Just sprinkle water in 'to be grinded' list and grind it to a paste, keep aside.


2. In a pressure cooker, Heat a tsp of ghee, fry the cashews and keep aside. Now add 1tbsp of oil and 1/2 tbsp of ghee. Add bayleaf, jeera, gingergarlic paste, onions and green chillies. Fry for 2-3 minutes.Now add the onion spices mixture and fry for few mins.


3. Now add veggies with salt and fry for few minutes.The veggies should be crunchy not soft. Add chilli powder, coriander powder and mix well.


4. Now add the basmati rice and fry for 3 mins. Now add exactly 1.5 cups of water and allow it to boil.


5. Close and pressure cook it for 8-9 mins. Open and garnish with ghee fried cashews. Add remaining 1/2 tbsp of ghee and mix gently.


6. Serve with onion raitha or plain curd.

The aroma of ghee with vegetables in rice with garnished cashews.....hmm yummmmy!! I am not a fan of restaurant pulaos becos most of them have strong flavours of the spices....I like mine to be less flavoured and thats the reason I started trying out pulaos at home :)