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Easy Vegetable Pulao

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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 ...

Hara Pulao (Green Pulao)

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Ingredients: Basmati Rice- 1 Cup Cauliflower (cut into small pieces)- 1/2 cup Green peas- 1 cup Thinly sliced potatoes- 2 medium sized Cinnamon-2 sticks Cloves-4 Black pepper- 8 Bay leaves-3 Green cardamom-2 Thinly sliced onions- 2 Thinly sliced green chilli- 2 Vegetable oil - 4 tbsp Coriander Leaves- 1 cup Green Chillies- 4 Ginger- 1 Inch Salt to taste Garam Masala- 1 tsp Method: 1) Grind together Coriander leaves, green chillies and Ginger to a fine paste 2) Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan and saute bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon, black pepper for few seconds. 3) Add thinly sliced onions and green chillies and saute untill they turn pink. Remove and keep this aside. 4) Heat remaining oil and fry all the vegetables for 5 min. This will enhance taste of the pulao. 5) Add the ground coriander paste and saute for 2 mins. 6) Add the fried Onions, garam masala and salt and stir fry for 5 minutes. 7) Finally add washed rice and 2 1/4 cups wate...

Quick Jeera Rice

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Ingredients: Basmati Rice-2 cups Onions-2 medium sliced thinely Cumin Seeds-3 tsp Salt- as required Oil/Ghee- 2 tbsp Dry fruits- Hand full( Optional) Method: Cook Rice seperately and drain thoroughly and keep aside. In a pan add ghee/Oil and add cumin seeds, nuts and onions Saute till onions become golden brown. Add salt to this Mix the rice well... Own recipe Note: You can add cloves, cardamom, bay leaves, coriander leaves, pepper, cinnamon etc as you like.

Masala Rice...

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Ingredients: Basmati Rice-2 cups (Any white rice will do) Green chilly-3 Garlic-4 flakes Cinnamon-1 inch piece Clove-2 Cardamom-2 Coriander leaves- hand full Mint leaves-10 leaves Onion-1( cut lenghwise) Tomato-2 Oil-2 tbsp ( you can use ghee also) Water- 4 cups Method: Grind ingredients 2 to 8.  In a pot add Oil and add onions to it and saute till golden brown. To this add the ground paste and saute till it cooks well. Add tomato to this mixture and mix well. Now add water to this and bring this to boil Now add the rice and cook it till done. Serve hot with curry or chutney. It tastes like Veg Biryani.

Carrot Rice

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Ingredients: 1.  Rice - 2 cup (cooked)- preferably white rice 2.  Grated carrot - 1 cup( u can also replace carrot with Beetroot and radish or any other vegetable) 3.  Peas - 1 cup (boiled) 4.  Onion - 1 chopped (medium size) 5.  Green chillies - 5-according to the spice required 6.  Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp 7.  Mustard seeds - ¼ tsp 8.  Urad dal - ½ tsp 9.  Channa dal - ½ tsp 10. Cashew nuts - 7 11. Curry leaves - few 12. Red chilli powder - ¼ tsp 13. Salt – to taste Method: Heat a pan with 1 tsp of oil. Add mustard seeds, urad dal, channa dal, cashew nuts and curry leaves. When the nuts colour change to light brown colour add chopped onions and green chillies. Fry till the onion colour changes to golden brown colour. Now add turmeric powder, chilli powder, salt and grated carrot. Mix well and close the pan with a lid and cook on low flame till the carrot is cooked. Then add the boiled peas and mix well. Now ...