Easy Vegetable Pulao

Ingredients:

Basmati – 1 cup
Onion – 1 medium sliced
Green chillies – 3 Nos slit
Chopped vegerables – I cup
Garlic – 4 cloves
Ginger – 1 inch piece
Cinnamon – 1 small piece
Oil – 1 tbsp
Cardamom – 2 Nos
Cloves – 2 Nos
Bay leaf – 1 nos
Water or Coconut milk – 1.5 cup
Salt – to taste
Ghee – 1 tsp

Preparations:

Soak Basmati rice for 1 hour and drain.
Grind ginger, garlic and cinnamon to a fine paste with very little water
Chopped vegetables may include 1 carrot, 8 beans, ¼ cup green peas and corn

Method.

Heat pressure cooker, add oil, cardamom, clove, bay leaf and temper it. To this add onions and green chilies and fry till transparent in medium flame.  Add the ground paste and fry for a min. Then add vegetables and stir fry for 2 min.

Add rice, salt and mix well carefully (rice may break). Now add water and bring it to boil. Close the cooker, cook for 12 – 14 min in low flame.  After 10 mins open the cooker, add ghee and mix well using a fork.


Note: I used Kaima rice which made the Pulao softer. 

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