Friday, 25 November 2011

PUDHINA PULAO / GREEN PULAO

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.



2 comments:

  1. Good one chithi...Will try this.

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  2. Tried this today. Came out well. I had peas and I used it instead of beans. Was quite colorful. Thanks

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