Thursday, March 5, 2009

Vegetable Pulao

I would like to share with you, the most widely prepared dish in India, PULAO. There are N number of ways to prepare Vegetable Pulao. I recently got this recipie from my best Friend. Believe me, it was Awesome. Let me start with the ingredients required for it and then towards the Preparation.
Ingredients :
Rice - 1 glass
Potato - 1 , diced
Tomato - 2 , chopped
Beans - chopped
carrot - chopped
onions - chopped
green peas - 1/2 cup
green chillies -2-3 chopped
Tez patta - 1 leaf
Cinnamon - 1 inch
black pepper - 5-6
cloves - 3
Ginger-Garlic paste - 1 spoon
salt - to taste
turmeric powder - 1/2 spoon
garam masala - 1 spoon
Coriander Powder - 1/2 spoon
ghee - 1 spoon
oil- 3 Spoon
Shaahi Jeera - 1 spoon

Procedure:
1. Wash the rice properly and keep it aside for 20 min.
2. chop all the vegetables and keep aside.
3. Take a cooker, add oil, ghee, shaahi jeera,tez patta,Cinnamon,blackpepper,cloves,,ginger- garlic paste,green chillies. mix well.
4. Now after the ginger-garlic paste looses the raw aroma,add all the chopped vegetables.mix well.
5. Add garam masala,coriander powder,salt.mix well.
6. Add the uncooked rice kept in the water. and mix well with all the vegetables.fry for 5 min.
7. Add water( double the qauntity of rice) and close the lid. dont pressure cook it. Just close the lid and allow it to boil.
8. When the rice is more than 90% done, then close the lid,with the whistle and off the Gas. Leave it for about 20 min(not on gas).It will get cooked completely by steam formed inside.
9. Serve hot with dahi Rayta.
10. Enjoy the Vegetable Pulao and Post me How was it.

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