Vegetable Pulao
Recipe Ingredients:
- Basmati rice - 2 cups
- Water - 4.5 cups
- butter - 2 Tb sp
- Cardamom - 4
- Cloves - 10
- Cinnamon stick - 2
- Bay leaves - 1
- Jeera/Cumin - 2 Tsp
- Lime juice - 2 Tb sp
- kisan sunflower cooking Oil - 1 tb sp
- Carrot - 2 (sliced length wise)
- Beans - 5 to 8 (sliced lengthwise)
- Frozen green beans - 3/4 cup
- Salt - to taste
Recipe Method:
- Clean and Cut vegetables and keep aside.
- In a big vessel/pan boil 4.5 cups water with enough salt,lime juice and kisan oil.Add all spices and ghee/butter.Cover and Allow this to boil.When it starts boiling,add clean soaked rice gently.Cover and cook for 10 - 15 min.When 3/4 of the water evaporates,switch off the flame and close it with a lid.
- By this time,cook those cut vegetables in another pan with lit water and salt.
- Cook the frozen peas in micro wave as per the direction in packet.(Cook for 1 min and check the peas and cook for 30 minutes more if needed.)
- Gently stir the cooked rice and transfer half of the cooked rice to another bowl.Add cooked vegetables to the rice and form a layer.Then add the remaining rice.
- Garnish with chopped cilantro and mint leaves(If you like its aroma,add few cilantro and mint leaves while cooking the rice iteslf.)
- Serve hot with a good gravy curry(non veg or veg) and tomato- onion raita and Papad(optional).