PUDHINA PULAO / GREEN PULAO
Things required : Refined oil - 1 1/2 tablespnful, ghee - 2 teaspoonful, Cinnamon (pattai) - 3 nos., cloves - 3 nos., cardamom - 1 no., green chillies - 3 nos., ginger - 1 inch, garlic - 2 nos, pudhina leaves - 1 small bunch, beans - 5 nos., carrot - 1 no., potato - 1 small, fresh peas - handful (leave this if its not available), basmati rice - 1 tumbler, water - 1 3/4 tumblers, salt.
Preparation :
1. Take pudhina leaves and wash well and keep. No need to cut.
2. Crush 1 inch ginger and 2 nos. of garlic in mixie without adding water.
3. Cut 5 nos. of beans, 1 no. carrot and 1 small potato into thin slices.
4. Slit 3 nos. of green chillies vertically.
5. Wash basmati rice and keep.
6. In a tawa, heat 1 1/2 tablespoonful of refined oil and 2 tspn. of ghee.
7. Splutter 3 pattai, 3 cloves, 1 cardamom and add slit green chillies and ginger garlic paste and then pudhina leaves. Fry this for a min. Then add the cut veg and fry for a min. Then add washed and drained basmati rice.
8. Keep stirring with a dosa spatula carefully without breaking basmati until all water is absorbed.
9. Add salt.
10. In a cooker pour 1 3/4 tumblers of water and transfer the contents from tawa to the cooker.
11. Mix well and close .
12. When steam comes, put the weight valve and simmer the stove (Important) and keep it for exactly 5 mins. Since you wont get the whistle, see to it that you switch it off in 5 mins.
13. Open after 12 mins and stir once softly without breaking basmati rice. Tasty green pulao is ready.
Things required : Refined oil - 1 1/2 tablespnful, ghee - 2 teaspoonful, Cinnamon (pattai) - 3 nos., cloves - 3 nos., cardamom - 1 no., green chillies - 3 nos., ginger - 1 inch, garlic - 2 nos, pudhina leaves - 1 small bunch, beans - 5 nos., carrot - 1 no., potato - 1 small, fresh peas - handful (leave this if its not available), basmati rice - 1 tumbler, water - 1 3/4 tumblers, salt.
Preparation :
1. Take pudhina leaves and wash well and keep. No need to cut.
2. Crush 1 inch ginger and 2 nos. of garlic in mixie without adding water.
3. Cut 5 nos. of beans, 1 no. carrot and 1 small potato into thin slices.
4. Slit 3 nos. of green chillies vertically.
5. Wash basmati rice and keep.
6. In a tawa, heat 1 1/2 tablespoonful of refined oil and 2 tspn. of ghee.
7. Splutter 3 pattai, 3 cloves, 1 cardamom and add slit green chillies and ginger garlic paste and then pudhina leaves. Fry this for a min. Then add the cut veg and fry for a min. Then add washed and drained basmati rice.
8. Keep stirring with a dosa spatula carefully without breaking basmati until all water is absorbed.
9. Add salt.
10. In a cooker pour 1 3/4 tumblers of water and transfer the contents from tawa to the cooker.
11. Mix well and close .
12. When steam comes, put the weight valve and simmer the stove (Important) and keep it for exactly 5 mins. Since you wont get the whistle, see to it that you switch it off in 5 mins.
13. Open after 12 mins and stir once softly without breaking basmati rice. Tasty green pulao is ready.
Good one chithi...Will try this.
ReplyDeleteTried this today. Came out well. I had peas and I used it instead of beans. Was quite colorful. Thanks
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